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Best iPad Apps to Teach Kids to Read

July 15, 2013

Teaching you kid to read with an iPad app is not a bad idea. After all there are worse ideas. And, if it means that you child gets a few more minutes of your attention then it can only be a good thing. Here are a few of the best iPad apps that were designed to help children learn to read and write.

Best iPad Apps to Teach Kids to Read

Play & Sing

Play & Sing

This is an app for pre-school children, and it works by teaching children about the early stages of reading and writing. It tells the child about reading with vocal guidance. It uses big colorful letters, animals, shapes and colors. It has a lot of touch screen games for the child to learn along with and have fun with.

Download Play & Sing

Phonics Easy Reader

Phonics Easy Reader

This is an app that shows children how words are formed and how the phonics of a word translates into the word on the screen. It shows consonant-vowel-consonant combinations and things such as short vowels. The kids are able to pick their own stories and the phonics easy reader will teach them to read as they enjoy the story.

Download Phonics Easy Reader

Learn to Read!

Learn to Read

Here is an app that teaches children how to sing in a fine piercing tenor. Well, actually it is a Kindergarten up to second grade app. It gives voice prompts for the child to learn the text that is on the screen. It is host to a lot of easy to read text which is spoken aloud for the child to read.

Download Learn to Read!

ABC PocketPhonics

ABC PocketPhonics

This app focuses primarily on teaching the child how to read. It helps children to develop their reading skills with tools and games to help them learn. It also has monitoring tools so that the children and the parents can see how their children are progressing through the reading app.

Download ABC PocketPhonics

Reading Raven

Reading Raven

This is an app that teaches phonological awareness by offering step by step lessons that are designed to be a reading guide. It slowly builds a solid foundation of reading skills so that it can slowly introduce the child to more complex reading skills and larger sentences and words.

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Download Reading Raven

Story Patch

Story Patch

This app allows a child to be creative whilst still following a story and a theme. It allows a child to create his/her own picture book and then customize the book with stories and illustrations. It makes the stories more fun and more engaging and promotes a better atmosphere for learning reading. It is good that the child is exposed to reading in a fun way so that the child will not learn to be bored when reading.

Download Story Patch

Letter Lab

iPad Apps to Teach Kids - letter lab

This app allows a child to trace letters with his or her finger. It is a great little tool for teaching children about letters, how to write them, how to form words, and how words fit together in sentences. The fact that the child is able to trace the letters, add a movement factor to an otherwise visual endeavor. It may bring about a bigger feeling of engagement with the child, and may even encourage him/her to remember a little more than he/she would have done otherwise.

Download Letter Lab

My Word Wall

My Word Wall

This is an educational app that incorporates reading into it. It is for children who are new to reading, and it helps them by speaking the words on the screen out loud. The app allows the child to see the words, to hear them, to vocalize them and to see how the letters in the words make them up and affect the way that they sound. This is good for children who are just learning how to read and have not fully gotten the hang of it yet.

Download My Word Wall

Author Bio: This post is written by Kate Funk and she works as a writer and tutor at rushtutor.com where free online tutoring is available for everybody who needs help.

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