Wiggly Words: Learn to read and spell with phonics
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | $0.99 | Preeti Kancharla | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Phonological awareness is a critical skill for a child learning to read. A solid understanding of phonemes and sound blends allows a child to decode any word and paves the way to effortless reading and spelling.
This app focuses on phonics based words and helps to learn and practice basic rules of how phonemes and blending sounds work. It comes with 500+ words categorized in following 6 word sets
- Short Vowels (CVC) like cat, dog, etc
- Long Vowels (CVCe) like bake, cake, etc
- Digraphs like ch, sh, etc
- Beginning blends
- Ending blends
- Double Consonants like boss, mill, etc
Read Mode:
Animated letters fall on the screen to form a word and fall asleep. To hear the sound they make you have to wake each letter up. Once all the letters are awake the word is read out aloud. To get a new word, you have to touch any wiggly letter which then falls off the screen and a new letter comes in forming a new word.
Spell Mode:
You can spell the word by dragging letters on to the line. As you touch each letter it will say the letter sound to help you with the spelling. As you build the word, the letters will tell you if the spelling is right or wrong with cute animations.
In both modes, one letter or word part is replaced at a time to help children learn new word building upon their understanding of the previous words thus reinforcing their understanding of phonics.
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Reviews
Fun and engaging for teaching phonics and word work
Reading Buddies
Wow! This is an amazing little app for learning about how words work. You choose the level including CVC word, long vowels, digraph so and blends. A word appears on the screen and the letters "fall asleep". Touching the letters wakes them up and they say their sounds and then the word. Tap on any letter to get a different letter and a new word. This will really keep my students interested as it is very playful. But they will also get plenty of practice in an important aspect of reading. Highly recommend.
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Nalini kilari
Very great app . My kids love this and very educational and keeps them occupied. I will definitely recommend my friends to download this app . Great job.
Simple and effective!
Masty1234
This app displays word chains based on replacing one letter at a time so kids can see how words are constructed. Phonics support helps kids to pick up reading and spelling words on their own. Each letter is themed as an animated character - simple but very effective for beginner or intermediate kids learning to read!!
Great app for early learners
L2learn
It is an easy to use app which helps pre-k and kindergarten kids build their phonics and spelling skills.
Best reading app you've never heard of
Kalielle
My toddler loves letters and is in love with this app. Its approach is much better than that of other big name apps like endless reader. It shows the letters and names the sounds but then lets the child figure out how to put them in order. So worth the price!
