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20 iPad Apps To Teach Elementary Reading

By TeachThought Staff / September 12, 2012 January 20, 2022 / Literacy / Apple, Elementary School, New Teacher, Tools

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As anyone with a toddler knows, iPads are addictive for children. They seem to have some sort of special radar that lets them know when an iDevice is within their reach, and they’ll do anything they can to get their hands on them. Resistance is futile, but instead of lamenting excessive screen time, you can make your child’s iPad addiction a productive one with educational apps, including those that promote early reading.

With these 20 apps, children can learn how to write letters, improve phonics fluency, and even write their own books. Read on to find the very best iPad apps for developing young readers, and feel free to share your own favorites in the comments.

ABC PocketPhonics
Kids can develop skills in letter sounds, writing, and first words with ABC PocketPhonics. Independent research has shown kids using this app can learn even faster than they would in a classroom lesson. Parents and teachers alike love this app as an early childhood learning tool.
Play & Sing
Preschoolers can get interactive with this app that encourages reading, teaches colors, letters, shapes, and even animals. Children will trace numbers and letters, pick out colors, shapes, and animals, plus pick out what’s next in a sequence.
Booksy
Students in Kindergarten to second grade can learn to read on this free platform. Designed to help children practice and develop their reading skills, students can download books that help to build comprehension, give cues, and even track progress with detailed user stats.
My Word Wall
Children can develop early reading skills with the help of My Word Wall, an educational app for budding readers. Students will hear, visualize, vocally repeat, and write down letters and words to learn, plus get engaged with educational activities that are great for all learning styles. Fun games and structured learning make this app a great choice.
Letter Lab
An incredible tool for learning to write and recognize ABCs, kids will trace uppercase and lowercase letters with their fingers on this app. Letter Lab not only teaches kids to write, but also about real-world objects with an audio component.
Story Patch
Teach students about the flow of stories by helping them to create their own. Story Patch for the iPad makes it easy for children to create their very own picture books. Customizable characters, hundreds of illustrations, and built-in story themes make this a very fun and engaging reading and writing app.
Learn to Read!
Kids can get a head start on learning to read with this app, designed for kids from Kindergarten to second grade. Using a flash card deck of sight words, children will develop the building blocks of reading. Voice prompts, examples, and easy-to-read text come together in this highly educational app.
Phonics Easy Reader
With the Rock ‘N Learn Phonics Easy Reader, little ones can practice their phonics. Short vowel sounds, combinations, memory words, and more are all covered in this app. Kids can choose whether a story will be read aloud to them and highlighted, or if they’ll read by themselves, tapping words when they need help.
ABC Alphabet Phonics
An awesome phonics game app for kids, Alphabet Phonics offers a great way to teach your child their ABCs. Using sight, sound, and touch, this educational app is useful even at the infant stage.
Reading Raven
Reading Raven is a beloved reading game app for the iPad. A favorite of teachers and even Apple staff, the Reading Raven is a fun reading adventure guide offering excellent features for kids, teaching phonological awareness, full sentences, and even printing skills.
SUPER WHY!
There’s so much to love about this reading app. Featuring characters that many kids already love from the SUPER WHY! TV show, children can choose from several different activities that develop their vocabulary, reading, and writing skills. Letter hunts, tracing letters, rhyming, and completing sentences are just a few of the ways kids are engaged in active reading development in this app.
K-3 Sight Words
Children can learn “sight words” with the help of this app that focuses on words that must be memorized instead of sounded out. With five different levels, young users can gradually build their skills and word memorization.
Find the Words
Kids will have fun playing word search on this easy-to-use educational app. Several different backgrounds and themes keep things interesting and engaging.
Aesop’s Quest
In Aesop’s Quest, Aesop the Ant reads through stories, revealing clues that help him in his quest. Little readers must remember important elements of each story to help Aesop along the way, developing reading comprehension and cognitive reading skills in a really fun way.
Read Me Stories
Develop a daily reading habit with this app that delivers a brand new book every day. Fun features include text highlighting as it’s read and the ability to touch characters and explore story lines.
Scholastic Reading Timer
Encourage daily reading with this iPad reading timer that keeps track of reading minutes and monitors weekly reading goals. It works just like a real stopwatch, but it’s fun for kids to see their reading minutes add up.
Kids Can Spell
Using fun animal images, kids can learn how to spell with this app. Through Kids Can Spell, children will see many different animals with sounds and spelling lessons to back them up. They’ll check out beautiful photos, then drag letters in place to assemble words. There’s even a timed version for an added challenge!
Reading for Details
Reading for Details is a great app for helping kids build reading comprehension skills. Students read passages, then test their understanding of the who, what, why, when, and where at three different levels of reading difficulty.
Word Magic
Created by the parents of a 5-year-old, Word Magic was designed with young readers in mind. Kids find missing letters that identify photos, featuring attractive and funny pictures. Parents and kids alike love this learning app for its positive reinforcement, bright colors, and simple design.
C is for Cow
With this app, kids can have fun learning phonetics and letter recognition. Even very young children love to see the animals, repeat their sounds, and learn their names.

‎Sight Words Reading Games ABC on the App Store

***** WONDERFULLY EDUCATIONAL READING PROGRAM FOR BEGINNING READERS (AGES 2-7).
***** Developed in cooperation with educational specialists by an award-winning educational studio, 22learn, the creator of the best-selling Abby Basic Skills and reading program Phonics: Fun on Farm, to best prepare your children for success in kindergarten and school curriculum.

* Entirety of 220 SIGHT WORDS from the popular Dolch list (with extra 94 NOUNS!)*

* Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grade Categories *

*...in 6 engaging EDUCATIONAL GAMES! *

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PRESS REVIEW
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* "Action Sight Words is an extra-fun "Extra-terrestrial" way to help children learn challenging sight words."

* "As a mother of a 1st Grader and a Pre-Schooler, I was quite impressed with this app."

Monica, theiphonemom.com

* "an awesome level of interactivity"

* "hits the mark on being both educational, and entertaining for kids"

Apps4Moms.net

* "A colorful and quirky mechanical, industrial theme that children will definitely like. A great tool for teaching and allowing your children learn all about sight words"

iheartthisapp.com

"Provides ample opportunities to learn all 220 Dolch words through a series of six games and activities. The interface is simple and easy to navigate and overall the look is appealing."

Jill Goodman, smartappsforkids.com

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Abby Sight Words with Wordaliens is a new EDUCATIONAL READING APPLICATION by 22learn. The app is designed to help children learn and practice reading the most common sight words.

Sight words are words in English language that do not have a simple one-to-one correspondence between sounds and written letters, and therefore have to be learned “by sight. ”

Being able to quickly recognize sight words is a crucial part of learning how to read. Sight words mastery is a necessary step towards an enormous reading improvement.

Sight Words offers children an easy-to-use interface and a grand choice of six fun educational games through which children can acquire mastery over this subject matter.
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The 6 GAMES included are:

1. WORD MACHINE
Control the Word Machine. Supply all the words that need to be produced by tapping on the words called.

2. SPELLING
Your dog is hungry! Make cans to feed him! To make a can, drag the letter cards to their correct place and make a word you have just heard pronounced.

3. BINGO
Make a Bingo to get a ticket for Aliens back home! Tap on the word corresponding to the one that you heard pronounced. Once you have matched cards from one side of the board to the next... Bingo! Aliens are back home!

4. MEMORY GAME
Match the sounds to correct word forms! To do so, tap on one of the speakers, hear the word, and then select one of the cards below with a correct word. Do it for all words!

5. GEARS
Tap on one of the speakers on the screen, hear the word pronounced, and place the word across the speaker. Repeat for all words to see wonderful gears animation.

6. FLASH CARDS
Practice in the Flash Card mode. List through the words and top on the cards to hear the words pronounced again and again!

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Additional Features Include:

- Selection of individual words to be practiced within each category
- Avatar selection
- Choice of capitalized words and upper-case or lower-case letters
- Access to best scores
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Get this app now and enjoy the progress your children are going to make in their reading skills.

22learn, your trusted educational apps developer

READINGS on the App Store. Learning to read!

Description

A complete course of learning to read according to the classical method in the form of a fairy tale quest with watercolor illustrations. No surcharges and advertising. Travel in READING and learn to read!

Even if your child is just starting to learn to read and sees letters for the first time. Or if your child knows letters and you are faced with the task of explaining to him how to turn them into words. Or you already have a preschooler who is almost reading and needs to improve and consolidate the skill. In all these cases, READING will suit you.

Because this is a fascinating journey of heroes through a magical land, with adventures and a mission to save it from an evil wizard. And the one who can read will be able to cope with it! It is interesting for a child to play and live this story. Along with an engaging storyline, the application includes all the material necessary for learning to read. From letters to reading phrases, everything is in READING.

During the game, the child will see, hear and write:
● more than 500 illustrated and voiced words
● Read and solve 65 riddles
● Read 68 sayings
● Play 35 games that develop different reading skills
● Complete 30 Word Valley themed screens with different levels of difficulty
● Draw letters 330 or more times (print and capitalization)

Have you tried to teach your child to read? If yes, then you know how difficult it is. The child confuses letters and sounds. Can't read a word, although he knows the letters, can't read a phrase, doesn't understand the meaning. Loses interest...
Training is needed to assimilate. This is what your child is doing in READING. Each of the 35 mini-games brings the desired skill to automatism, and an interesting plot helps the child return to READING again and again and play at new, more difficult levels.

IN READING 5 locations - letters, writing, warehouses and "reading automation" - fluent reading of words, phrases. Information is presented in all possible ways for perception - visual, auditory, game. The child remembers what he saw, develops attentiveness and observation. Improves speech through the development of phonemic hearing and warehouse spelling of words.

One of the difficulties children have when they learn to read is merging letters into words. This is explained in the app with animation and play.

READING uses a storage method of teaching reading (Zaitsev's cubes). Its peculiarity is that the child quickly begins to read, memorizing the structural units of words - warehouses. Reading in warehouses is practiced in READING in the location "city of warehouses"

After the child has mastered letters and warehouses, it is important to read as much as possible. Practice is important every day. In READING, the child reads constantly, starting with simple words. Gradually, the complexity increases, but the child will read all 500 words, distributed by topic and task. In addition to the required material, more than 3,000 words are available for reading in the game.

READING is a game of long passage. It usually takes a child a month to a year to get to the top of reading and defeat the evil wizard. Every child has his own way and time. Do not rush things, better watch how he goes through the game. Rejoice in his success!

The unique READING learning algorithm analyzes the progress of the child, selects the appropriate level of tasks and games. Therefore, although the optimal age for playing is 4-6 years old, many tasks will be within the power of even a three-year-old kid who is just starting to learn to read, and will interest a seven-year-old who needs to improve reading before school. For an advanced level in the settings, you can open all sections of the game at once.

Application without in-app purchases, ads and does not require a constant Internet connection. #1 in SE7EN's "Top 5 App Store Apps for Teaching Preschoolers to Read" by SE7EN, ●
was named one of the top iOS apps published by Lifehacker magazine.

The time has passed when a child had to be forced to learn to read. When you figured out how to interest him.
READING will captivate your child with a fairy story and teach him to read so that he loves reading. Try it!

Oct 27 2021

Version 4. 7

- Improved app stability and performance
- Added support for the new iPad mini

Ratings and reviews

Ratings: 752

Best in Teaching Reading

With Reading, I finally managed to get a 5-year-old boy interested in reading. He has been playing for the 2nd month and does not get bored at all, only the interest and motivation to help Bukvoozhka increases). This is really a whole reading country with many levels and a variety of tasks. It is very valuable that sounds are studied immediately, and not letters, the wonderful method of Zaitsev is used.
Many thanks to the developers for a really thoughtful and high-quality product!

Thank you! We are very glad that the game suited you and gave such results. We are developing the game further and therefore invite you to take part in a survey that allows us to better understand the user experience and the direction of development of this and other games. Please, if you can find time, write to us at [email protected]. Thank you!

The best thing I've seen for a child on a computer!!!

Thanks a lot to the developers! Today, there are so few useful programs for children.
Very high-quality graphics, many details that catch children's creativity and a wonderful kind story, which is so lacking in this world of megacities and continuous degrading advertising.
I recommend to all children!
Tell me, have psychologists watched this supplement? It seems to me that it also has a second purpose - to reduce anxiety in a child ...
That's it, we ran on to pass - very interesting!)

We are glad that you appreciated the calm atmosphere of Reading. Perhaps it turned out like this because we did not follow the path of attracting the child's attention due to arousal factors. Instead, we involved the children themselves in the process of creating the game. The plot, drawings and even some of the music were written by children, they also voiced the main characters. Then our team was joined by professional artists and announcers who managed to preserve the atmosphere of children's fantasy in Reading. Thanks for the high rating and review!

5 out of 5

This is exactly the case when you do not feel sorry for the money spent on the purchase of the application, that's it. Drawing is pleasing to the eye, no bright and pretentious colors. The voice acting is very pleasant, without extraneous sounds and other noise. Until the child reached the letter "X", they did not go further to the "City of Artists". The only thing, I would add the functionality of the "City of Artists" to the "City of Letters" as an option. Will explain. Let's say: this is the letter "A", find the letter "A", add the letter "A", WRITE the letter "A". Switching between cities is not a problem, but it would be a little more convenient. But I replace this with an ordinary pencil and a piece of paper.
In general, "5" is an honestly deserved rating. Thank you!

Thank you for the excellent rating, feedback and interesting offer! We will definitely work on it. If you have any new comments or suggestions, be sure to write to us at [email protected], we appreciate the indifferent attitude and try to take into account all wishes as much as possible.

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Learn to Read and Learn Letters!

The Evil Snow Queen froze the magic letters of the alphabet and the animals were trapped in ice. And only your smart kid can save them, for which he must learn the letters of the alphabet and make words - the names of animals.

Collecting words from the letters of the alphabet, the child hears the sound of each letter of the alphabet, which allows the child to subconsciously remember the letters and their sound. And after your smart little fellow saves all the animals, a smart kid will have an educational game - a quiz in which a preschooler can consolidate his knowledge of letters and reading skills.

At the end of the quiz, the joyful bunny will dance to the kid in an incendiary dance, stimulating the child to continue the fun preschool reading!

METHODOLOGY

The application uses an effective sound method of teaching reading, similar to the "Zaitsev's cubes" method and the principles of the Montessori method, namely:

WE DO NOT NEED ABC AND PRIMER. AND WE DON'T NEED TO KNOW THE ALPHABET!

To learn to read, the baby does not need to know the names of the letters. A common phenomenon: a mother bought an alphabet for children or a primer, the child learned the letters, even learned the alphabet, but cannot read. His words don't stick.

The well-known teacher Nikolay Zaitsev claims that the alphabet is harmful for kids! In the alphabet and primer, for each letter of the alphabet, a picture is given: A - stork, B - hippopotamus, etc. When we learn to read the alphabet, the baby will remember both the letter and the picture, but how then to explain to him that the zebra - stork - lizard - heron, flashing in his mind, should form the word "hare"? How to teach a child to read?

Instead, in the application "Learn to read - Save the animals" the child does not learn the alphabetic names of letters, but their "sound" or sounds, from which the child can easily form a word.

The game has 2 modes of learning to read:
1. Learning to spell - great for a child to learn letters and understand the basics of reading. It is recommended to start with this learning mode - it is very effective for memorizing letters and learning to read short words.
2. Learning to read by syllables (warehouses) - for children who already know the letters. By "syllables" the method "Zaitsev's cubes" means "warehouses" - i.e. a combination of a consonant and a vowel: for example, ko-ro-va, ko-sh-ka. Learning to read in such short syllables is much easier for a child than in complex "school" syllables. And the easier it is to learn to read, the more effective!

WHAT YOUR BABY WILL LEARN:

• Learn the letters of the Russian alphabet in a fast and fun way
• Develop phonemic awareness by collecting letters and listening to their sound
• Expand your vocabulary with many new words in Russian
• Learn to read by syllables and spell by letter
• Explore lots of new animals
• Reinforce our reading skills with a fun
quiz • We don't teach kids the alphabet, we teach them to read!
• Preschool and pre-school education for children aged 4+ free of charge

The interface of the educational game for children is built in accordance with the principle of the Montessori learning system - "Help me do it myself!".