Today’s guest post is written by Melica Metheba.

Teaching children requires patience and understanding.

But it’s completely normal to get mad at them at times. You can easily teach them and improve their reading skills with apps specially designed for kids.

These apps are super engaging and child-friendly. They steadily get their attention and, in no time, hook kids in steady learning of the English language. These free apps are not just recommended for home study but also for school time.

I have prepared a list of apps for every stage of your child’s learning journey. And the skills exercised in each app are carefully outlined. With this list, you’ll be exposing your kids to unlimited learning.

Best Reading Apps

These apps are a good companion and smooth guide for your kid’s improvement in letter recognition, writing, reading, and sentence formation. It is exciting to get your child to graduate from one app to the other. The experience is invaluable to every parent and teacher.

ABC Kids

ABC Kids is a good teaching app for kindergartens and toddlers just starting. The app has features of all shapes of letters and also help your child relate these letters to phonic sounds.

ABC Kids also aids children in writing. They get to trace letters using the arrows provided. The app improves the overall phonics, letter recognition, and tracing skills of kindergartens.

Kids get to receive prizes like toys and stickers for completing the tracing game. The app gives them the drive to trace and write English alphabets even on paper. It is completely free and you won’t make any in-app purchases.

Exercised Skills: Tracing, phonics, and letter recognition

 

Sight Words! Kids Learn

Sight Words is a wonderful app for kids. It has audio features that boost the learning procedure. Academic games like jigsaw puzzles and hangman are also included for leisure. And the graphics is suitable for kindergarten.

Kindergartens have vast interests, and it’s usually uneasy to keep their attention for a long time. Luckily, this app has a variety of activities to get and keep them focused for hours.

They get to hear and pronounce new words. This makes them familiar with letters to the point that they can write letters and make use of new words in speech.

Not to worry, this amazing app is available on the Apple Store. The free version contains words 1–25 for free.

You have the option of purchasing additional word packs. Every set of words takes your child through an advanced journey of unprecedented activities that would yield commendable progress.

Exercised Skills: Sighting words

 

Spelling Bug

If your child can comfortably sight words, the next step would be bugging them to spell the words. Follow up with the Spelling Bug app to avail your ward a spelling practice with over 90 words.

The app provides pictures for every word provided. It has an audio feature that pronounces the word just like a teacher would do and offers your kid the letters to spell accordingly.

The benefit is that the app tasks your child to spell correctly to get approval to the next word. With this app, your kid is sure to start spelling in no distant time.

Exercised Skills: Alphabet sounds and word spelling

 

Rivet

It is advisable to get this app immediately your child is done with the spelling bug app. Each app is a follow-up, so the learning process has to be taken one step after another to yield optimal results.

Incredibly, Rivet has over 3,500 books for your kid, all for free. Rivet is structured in levels just like mobile games; each new level is an advancement of the other. However, you may decide to search for each book or level without the order but your kid may need help to read properly.

The app also offers kids the excitement of tapping each word to hear their pronunciation.

It has a special school-like feature where kids can build their profile and earn reward badges for each progress recorded. This incites interest and helps them focused to earn more badges.

Happily, getting this app is a walk in the park. It is a free download from Apple App Store or Google Playstore. The app doesn’t work on all types of devices. You may want to check their list to verify if yours is compatible.

Exercised Skills: Listening, reading, and cognition

 

Starfall Learn to Read

For lovers of kid series, your favorite actor can now teach you how to read the right way. Starfall Learn to Read is a reading app for kids. Zac, the rat, makes learning fun but progressive.

Each section of the app contains a vowel sound and its related spelling. The concept is to aid kids in understanding the difference between spoken and written language.

Starfall Learn to Read app is beginner-friendly for English language learners. Kids can see, touch, hear, and master spellings and sounds through the activities of the app.

Exercised skills: Reading and mastery of spellings

 

Sentence Maker

As your kid advances in reading and writing, trying out sentence formation would be a lot easier with a sentence maker app. This app uses real-life pictures in place of animations.

The app is beginner-friendly starting with simple phrases then advances into greater activities.

It also contains sentences and word hints to improve learning. Memories are highly valued with the app. You can attach pictures and voice activities to keep a record of the progress.

Exercised Skills: Simple sentence construction

 

Partners in Rhyme

Ever caught your kid with a partner in crime? Now, this a partner in rhyme. Your partner would be here for you throughout your rhyme journey and beyond. No one ever stops learning rhymes.

The app aids children in improving their rhyme skills.

Partners in Rhyme app has features that will get your child rhyming within a short time. It features four child-friendly games for engagement and picture mode to help to get rhymes right.

The app generally advances the phonological alertness of kids. It sharpens the imagination and creativity of kids. They have to think up rhymes rather than simply memorizing them the old way. Getting to form rhymes at a young age is amazing and mind-blowing.

You can download this app for free on Apple Store.

Exercised Skills: Forming rhymes

 

Futaba

Futaba is an advanced app for vocabulary enhancement and language development. The cognitive activities of the app are stress-free and engaging.

It does this by displaying pictures on the screen. And from word options, you choose the correct word to earn points. The app is motivational and fun.

Exercised Skills: Language development and vocabulary enhancement

 

Chatterpix Kids by Duck, Duck Moose

You can now improve those super creative drawing skills of your kids with the Chatterpix Kids app. The app allows you to upload pictures and drawings, then animate it by recording your voice. Kids can animate the drawings with poems or reading passages.

Chatterpix Kids by Duck, Duck Moose can be used in schools to enhance the creativity of pupils more engagingly and amazingly.

Exercised Skills: Creativity, fluency, and expression

 

Final Words

These apps have been selectively picked to give you the best results. They are worthwhile for kids. The apps are arranged in order of progression, each app features a certain stage of language learning. You can start downloading them to unleash the great help it will offer your kid.

In a bid to protect your personal information and privacy choices, it’d be great if you go through the privacy policy of the app developer before downloading any of the apps. Some apps take and share activities of their user, but this could be modified only if you go through the privacy policy.

 

About the Author: Melica Matheba is a lover of kids and a designer of contemporary house plans.