Alphabet Zoo

Alphabet Zoo spotted on 60 Minutes!

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Education	$0.99	Third Rail Games LLC	iPhone, iPad, iPod

"Awesome and simple app for teaching kids to recognize letter-sounds"
-Educational Game Review

"Creative and entertaining pre-literacy app"
-InnovativeLearning.com

Alphabet Zoo is designed and reviewed by educators to teach children letter-sound association, an essential skill for learning to read. More importantly, kids have fun playing with the animals and creative sounds without even realizing they're learning.

Letter-sound association, or teaching children what sounds the letters make, is the first step to preparing children to be successful readers. The Congressionally-mandated National Reading Panel concluded that children who have “phonics instruction read better and spell better than other children”. Understanding letter-sounds is much more than being able to simply recite the alphabet, but actually understanding the sounds that the letters make in context of real words.

The app is primarily aimed at preschool kids between the ages of 2 and 5. The competencies in Alphabet Zoo are aligned to the US Common Core curriculum standards for phonics and word recognition under Foundational Skills for Reading at the kindergarten level.

Reviews

The porcupine!
VHerring

I came back to download it just to hear that porcupine again and I can’t get because of the update ? this was seriously the best! I have it on my old iPad but the sound isn’t working for some reason on just this app. Oh what I would do to just hear the porcupine again.

Yassss that porcupine.
Martyek

My son and I have laughed at this app for years (he’s 9 now). Not necessarily that educational but man we’ve laughed at the sounds, of course the porcupine is the best. I’ve played it for so so many of my friends. Was just going to play it for some other friends and app needs to be updated. ?

Awesome educational app
K Hiatt

Love the simple design. Love the illustrations. LOVE the sounds!! Great app for teaching and entertaining kids; also great for anyone to have some extra laughs.

This is great for kids AND adults!!!
Floofer

What a great app!! Very creative and effective teaching tool. We laughed until we cried at the different sounds. Animation and illustrations were very clear and recognizable. Design was simple enough so that the whole focus could be on the letters, pronounciations, and examples. Fantastic app!