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Rocket Speller PLUS

* Time To Play Mag: "an app that has set the standard for phonics and spelling apps for kids."
Category Price Seller Device
Education $2.99 Little Big Thinkers Inc. iPhone, iPad, iPod

* Kindertown: "one of the best phonics and spelling apps available"
* The iMums: "Rocket Speller Plus has retained the features of the original app that made it so much fun for kids to play but what they have added turns it into a must-have app for younger children ..."
* Fun Educational Apps: "a great way to learn to spell words via a fun, intuitive and interactive interface."
* Appy Mall:"This truly is an app that will grow with your child."
* App Store feature: New & Noteworthy
* App Store feature: Education store front
* App Store feature: Apps for PreK and Elementary
* App Store feature: Apps to Kickstart Your School Year


Kids join Zip the alien on an out-of-this-world spelling adventure to build a new rocket ship. They'll spell words to help him fly to 3 different planets and collect the rocket pieces he needs. The game ends when they launch their fancy new rocket into space and steer it through a short star-collecting mini-game.

KEY FEATURES:
- Promotes recognition of letter names & sounds (including vowel and consonant blends) and demonstrates how these combine to form words
- Goes beyond standard phonics apps by grouping trickier letter blends (e.g. "ai" and "ph" so kids can learn to spell words like, "dolphin" and "stairs".
- 5 levels of difficulty engage children at different stages of development
- 450+ simple and complex words (including some Dolch words)
- Simple, user-friendly interface
- Adaptive Assistance technology helps kids when they are struggling
- Customize the learning experience by selecting upper or lower case letters, letter names or phonics, difficulty level, and word theme category
- Highly motivating game play
- Develops awareness of left-to-right letter order
- 5 word categories: Creatures, Around the House, The Basics (numbers, colors, and shapes), Food, and All Words
- Words are different every time you play

- Regional words are used for the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand (North American accent only)
- 1000's of possible rocket combinations


GREAT FOR:
- Learning letter names and phonemes
- Enhancing early vocabulary
- Fine motor skills development
- Classroom learning centres, home use, or in the car


LEVELS:
1: 3-6 letter words. Place letters in any order. Audible and visual hints.

2: 3-10 letter words. Order required. Audible and visual hints. 
3: 3-4 letter words. Order required. Audible hints. Adaptive assistance.
4: 5-6 letter words. Correct order required. Adaptive assistance only.
5: 7-10 letter words. Correct order required. Adaptive assistance only.

PRIVACY AND EXTERNAL LINKS

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This app:

- has a secure Grown-ups Area that contains relevant external links
- tracks usage data using Flurry Analytics. All data is aggregated and completely anonymous. Understanding how the app is used helps us to improve the user experience. Please contact us and we’ll be happy to answer any questions. You may easily opt-out from participating by visiting www.flurry.com/resources/privacy.html.

- Has NO push notifications

- Has NO in-app purchases

- Has NO third party ads

- Has NO social media links



Little Big Thinkers is a member of Parents with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families.

Reviews

imperfect
Amelielilype

No verbs and adjectives.


Not good
RWC31

Unable to hear phonics. Gives word and allows you to drag the letter not much learning involved not worth the money would love a refund


My sons favorite game
Leftwink

My 2 year old son loves to play this game on level one!!


Great learning tool!
Trebelcleff

This is a great supplemental learning tool for my dyslexic six year old. It has renewed his interest in learning to read and, with parental guidance while using the program and his school teacher's help, he has learned to recognize that letters have sounds and that putting them together can make words. He has also learned about silent letters and combined letters that make new sounds. It is just the right amount of learning with the game format that he needed to boost his desire to work on reading/writing!


Exceptional Spelling App
Zan's Mama

I used the free version of this app for over a year, including dozens of hours in my son's Kindergarten classroom - the paid version is even more useful. My child struggles with phonics & spelling despite being several grades ahead for reading via sight words - this program is engaging & has helped my child's spelling immensely.


Disappointed
StayatHomeMomExTeacher

The most disappointed I've been with an app purchase. LOVED the free version, so decided to purchase the Plus. Was excited that there was an even better version available that included letter sounds...have yet to see any difference between the two...why did I pay for something I already had for free?? Very frustrated!!


Good with one request
ixworks

My 4 year old is doing sight words and likes building simple rockets(like this game already does). What would be nice option is the interval choice (fixed at 3 words right now). It would be good if we could do 1 or 2 words to get to the end and then shoot the rocket. Nice work on getting a balance on fun and learning


Phonics Improvements
MsBigelow

I like how it groups letters together to show phonics, but it doesn't group "ing" together which is very confusing to my students.


Confusing
Destructive to learning

Allows kids to place phonograms out of sequence. Also, pronounces some phonograms wrong.


Crash
Adreier187

The app does not work it's crashing every time o press play


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