Teaching and learning to read English with synthetic phonics for 3-5 year olds

This app is intended to create phonemic awareness and to teach young readers how to read with synthetic phonics. Its simple and child-friendly interface offers young learners an engaging way to master the essential skills of phonics: phonemic awareness, letter-sound relationship, blending and segmenting.

8 lessons have been designed for this fun-filled app to guide young readers to read in a systematic way. These lessons are:

Lesson 1: s, a, t, p

Lesson 2: i, n, m, d

Lesson 3: g, o, c, k

Lesson 4: ck, e, u, r

Lesson 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

Lesson 6: j, v, w, x

Lesson 7: y, z, zz, qu

Lesson 8: Mnemonic Aa-Zz, , Writing Aa-Zz

Lesson 8 is specially designed to teach children to read and write the letters Aa to Zz with the mnemonic techniques. It is a visual tool that uses a picture-word association to provide a memory bridge for children to remember sounds and letters.

Learning objectives:

At the end of the lesson, children will be able to:

• differentiate the sounds in words (phonemic awareness)

• read out letters by their names and sounds (letter-sound relationship)

• write letters (upper case & lower case) in the correct way

• apply phonics skills to read (decode) words

• apply phonics skills to spell (segment) words

Features:

• Easy-to-use, child-friendly interface

• Lessons taught in a systematic way, from simple to complex

• >150 fun phonics games

• 7 reading games

• High quality audio

• Does not require Internet access once downloaded

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