PHONICS FRIDAY---APP EDITION

I hope to utilize my IPAD more this coming school year.  I am beginning to research what phonics apps might be good for my kiddos.  I thought I would share with you a few apps I have found that look promising. 

Word Wonderland from McGraw-Hill looks like a cool app.  I am loving the price of FREE.  It  reviews long and short vowels, the r controlled syllable, blends, and more.  I am going to give this app a shot for sure.  I have their Everyday Day math apps and think they are well done so I am excited to discover this app.

Word Wonderland will guide preschool through young elementary students through basic phonics skills using word sorting. Students can practice long and short vowels, blends, digraphs, r-controlled vowels, words ending with –le, dipthongs, word families and more with this engaging game. - See more at: http://bestappsforkids.com/2013/06/word-wonderland-primary/#sthash.jp4dl6Kc.dpuf

Word Wonderland will guide preschool through young elementary students through basic phonics skills using word sorting. Students can practice long and short vowels, blends, digraphs, r-controlled vowels, words ending with –le, dipthongs, word families and more with this engaging game. - See more at: http://bestappsforkids.com/2013/06/word-wonderland-primary/#sthash.jp4dl6Kc.dpuf

ABC Phonics Lite is FREE but if you decide you like it and you want to upgrade to the full version it is $2.99.  This app teaches letter sounds, letter formation, and beginning blending of sounds into words.  The Lite version has 20 words included.

Monkey Word School ($1.99) by Thup Games is definitely worth two dollars.  I plan on adding it to my app collection because my bud Lisa from Always an Adventure in Kindergarten tried it out with her kiddos last school year.  So I have watched kids totally engrossed in this app and the best part is they are really learning and practicing skills!

Hairy Letters by Nessy ($1.99)  This APP looks so great.  It starts introducing letters and then builds to blending three sounds to form a word.   The creator of this app is a UK based company.  They also have a couple of dyslexia apps which I find interesting.  This one is definitely going on my wishlist.

 

 

I hope you found an app or two that you could utilize in your classroom next year.  I would love to hear what phonics apps you use to reinforce skills.  If you use a good one that you think I should check out --please share-- I would love to know!!!!

I arrive at the beach tomorrow and I am super excited to spend some quality time with the family.  PHONICS FRIDAY will be on vacation next week too but it will return on the 26th.  

Stay tuned for a little bit of fun that the bloggers at Teaching Blog Round Up have planned for next week beginning on the 18th!  You won't want to miss it!! 

Until next time:)