Best iPad App For Teaching Phonics to Kids

Phonics instruction helps children learn to read by recognizing the sounds of the spoken language. Children are first taught to recognize the sound each letter makes, pick out the beginning sounds and ending sounds of words, and finally combine different sounds to make words.

Interactive tools not only motivate your child to learn but they also make learning more interesting. Your child may not be willing to sit down with a paper and pencil but he may just love to play educational games on iPad or iPhone. I wonder sometimes if Apple already knew how their products would benefit these young people the most.

Since my son would never sit with me and play with flash cards *peacefully* like some other kids do, I have been fishing for the best phonics app and here's my catch:

Abc Pocket Phonics

Pocket Phonics is a simple app that teaches children how to write, recognize, and spell out common and most frequently used words. This app will surely give your child a head start in learning and will help him develop early literacy and reading skills. 

The design and interface of PocketPhonics is rather simple. There are no bells and whistles and no colourful interactions like in other children's apps. Despite that, it is still my favorite app so far and I am clearly impressed.

This is how this phonics app teaches your child to develop phonics recognition and reading skills. 

• The app demonstrates how to write each letter, saying the letter sound at the same time. Your child is asked to trace a set of letters with his fingers. This tracing quiz is good for developing penmanship skills. The small cartoon figures that cheer up after successful completion of this level will motivate your child to trace. 

• Your child is asked to recognize the letter from the sound that is played in the recording and pick it out from a set of 5-6 letters. This quiz helps your child learn phonics and letter recognition.

• The recorded voice then shows how to spell out common words with the letters your child picked.  

A unique thing about this app is that it doesn't introduce letters in alphabetical order. Instead, it teaches in sets of letters that are more useful and more frequently used. This will help your child in starting reading sooner.

Verdict

This is a must have app for every preschooler eager to read and write. The price is only $2.99 and it is totally worth it!

Get it now!