iTouchiLearn Words is designed to help your child learn to read some basic words. The app features fifteen sets of words. They’re grouped together into themes of a sort. For example, apple is featured with worm, seed and tree. Baby goes with crawl, fall and walk. The app has two modes. In “ABC” mode the [...]

LAZ Reader apps are brought to the App Store by a company called Learning A-Z, Inc. This company brings leveled reader books online. A leveled book is one that’s matched to a reader’s skill level.  The books are supposed to not be too easy and not too difficult either. Learning A-Z, Inc. has taken their [...]

Sesame Workshop has teamed up with ScrollMotion, the company behind the Iceberg Reader kid apps, to bring the “Where Is the Puppy” Sesame Street book series to the iPhone. I recently reviewed another book presented by ScrollMotion, Curious George Makes Pancakes. The features in Sesame Street: The Playground are the same as they are in [...]

  Did you know that Clifford the Big Red Dog has an iPhone app? He does and it’s all about learning how to make words. The character of Jetta is trying to paint some pictures but she needs help figuring out what to create. Your job is to spell out words and give her inspiration. [...]

  Quick Reader is an app that will help you improve your reading speed. My reading speed is pretty quick already, but that’s due to the fact that I tend to skip over lengthy descriptive passages in books. Not so many adjectives please, just give me the action. Sadly, I just don’t have the time [...]

Early Reader is another great app for, well, early readers. This one combines phonics, sight words, sounding out words and reading sentences. It’s pretty thorough. The phonics section displays the letters of the alphabet. Tap on the screen and hear the sound the letter makes. Swipe your finger to move through the alphabet. Sight words [...]

Pocket Wally Sight Words is a great app that uses the Dolch sight words to help your little ones learn how to read. There are things I really liked about this app. First, on the “Options” screen you can choose the list of sight words you want to work with. They offer Pre-K, Kindergarten, First, [...]