Montessori Words & Phonics
➜Top 50 Android Apps For Kids 2013
- SmartAppsForAndroid.com➜The iPad/iPhone version was mentioned in the New York Times, Wired's GeekDad, and was awarded "Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design" by Children Technology Review.➜ Used in US schools
Common Core State Standard (CCSS):CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1b Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2 & CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Montessori Words helps kids learn and understand two fundamental concepts:
• First, the app helps kids understand that words are made up of sounds/phonics (phonemic awareness). For each word, your kids can touch the empty rectangles where letters must be dragged to complete the word, and hear the sound the corresponding letter(s) produces.
• Secondly, the app helps kids memorize the phonics associated with letters by providing a phonics-enabled alphabet where kids can touch each letter and hear the associated phonic.
Montessori Words allows you to select words according to their difficulty or sound categories.
• Level 1 displays a three-letter word with no difficulty for beginning readers (CVC words).
• Levels 2 and 3 offer more complex words that contains more complex phonics (as long vowels sounds or blends).
• Alternately, your child can choose from 44 sound categories--choose words that contain a specific sound (for example, long a, “k” sound, and so on).
To create an enjoyable experience, the app also includes sounds, animations, and interactive visual effects that are displayed after a word is completed.
Choose capital, lower-case, or cursive letter display for a greater challenge.
Montessori Words also features a movable alphabet that allows open-ended activities for young children learning their letters.
➜ Overview:
• 320 word-image-audio-phonics combinations appropriate for ages 3/4 to 8 to help kids develop their reading, writing and spelling skills.
• Uses the proven Montessori learning method (Phonemic Awareness and Phonics).
• Phonics-enabled Movable Alphabet (touch a letter to hear its sound/phonic).
• Touch letters of a displayed word to hear the phonics used in the word.
• Select words according to difficulty (3 series
- from CVC words to complex words) or sound (44 categories).
• Includes 42 letter sounds/phonics.
• Choose capital, lower-case or cursive letter display.
• 21 fun and colorful interactive visual effects are displayed when a word is completed. Visual effects animate and change as they follow your child’s touch.
• Packed with animations and sounds to create a fun and enjoyable experience!
• Also included is a Movable Alphabet that allows open-ended activities for young children learning their letters.
• Children can play alone or with a parent. Includes instructions on how to use the game as an educational tool.
Category : Education
Reviews (30)
This could be a dream app but..... I give it a 1 star because it is a phonics learning app and if sounds are incorrect it is misleading and useless. Short E is pronounced with short I sound and Q is sound pronounced with K sound, L sound pronounced oolu. This needs to be fixed asap otherwise the app is junk so do not pay for it as i did.After reading other reviews it is concerning this has not been mentioned in over 6 years, just how good the app is and how a 3-4yr old loves it.
Great app. My daughter has ADHD, and she has struggled a lot with reading and writing at school. This app has help her a lot and to us as parents to suport her.
Help please. My Samsung Note 2 died with all my paid apps in it. How can i please install this into my new phone, as it says "not available in your country". Update: Thank you so much! It's working now.
Fantastic app for beginning readers and learning to spell using letter sounds
Thanks for letting me get back to you on the phone.
It is good.
While this app has some reeally great features, it really needs levels similar the handwriting app, where you can limit a childs use of clicking on the box to determine what letter they need. Combining an element of hand writting/tracing woukd also make a big improvement
My kids love this app! But unfortunately I have 3 kids the same age working on the 3 word phase. The same words keep coming up and they've basically memorized it. Its great for one child doing it on his own. I wish there were more words. If I could get a refund, that would be appreciated.
Agreed. Not as good as the ios version. No pronunciations when playing with letters. No ability to add new words.
Why no crossword feature as with the iOS version? With just one word at a time, the reward feature becomes too familiar too soon. The iOS version has you do three at a time in crossword fashion. Wish the Android version did.
Neat idea, but how do you get it to proceed to the next word? The "fireworks" screen gets old after awhile! I feel like I'm missing something simple...
My niece likes it. Really helps her to read.
My four year old picked up on this quickly and won't put it doen unless I ask him. Very cool.
My 2 year old loves this app and it's teaching him how to spell! Several settings for difficulty levels and hints, sounds out letters to help. I really recommend this
5 year old daughter loves it. Shes done over 150 words and the more she does the more her confidence grows!
Excellent for combining sounds and words. Helps develop early reading skills
My 4yo loves spelling the words.
Very helpful. Loads of useful content
One of best! My daughter loves it!
Wonderful application with a developer that genuinely wants his users to be happy. My kids love this app and will play it for hours. I have 4 year old twins and my daughter started before my son. Her spelling and recognition of words have started to outstrip my son's, so we are getting him on the app as well. Pierre is a great guy to work with. Support this Dev. The price of a Starbucks coffee for endless entertainment and a head start for kids? I'll take that deal any day.
Background: With my 2yrold, we've played phonics games using a dry erase board and letter blocks for a few months. This Montessori app works beautifully as a follow-up. After 15min of mucking about the screen, she understood the concept. She now plays the app every other day. Before dragging letters, she imitates the entire word to establish phonetics. As she chooses from letters, she checks her selection before dragging by playing the target sound. The interface is intuitive and robust. Many thanks!
Enjoyed by daughter who is 6, just tough enough for her.
My daughter always picks this one
My 3.5 yr old loves this app
Very good for esl. Helps with spelling and pronunciation.
Using Nexus 10 tablet. Great customer care and amazing apps for iOS... See their website! I know those can take advantage of built in tech that android may lack? But oh, I'm hoping - And even caught myself shopping for an iPad! Please give droid users those goodies before our kids outgrow them :-)
After my daughter completed 50 words, the letter sounds were gone. Hope this can be fixed as the app is useless without the letter sound. This is phonics Okay, so I was able to fix it by uninstalling and reinstalling the app
Well thought out, well designed, easy to navigate, logical, fun and challenging. My daughter is learning to read and just learned some blends and correct spelling in just ten minutes, plus she is clearly inspired and wants to do more! Fantastic.
Please optimize a little bit better for Android tablets (I have Nexus 10). And please add your math and crossword apps to Android! With a little tweaking this app could be top-notch. It's pretty good as it is, though.
So disappointed. I was looking for something to help my son whose going a very hard time with reading and saw this app had great reviews. I paid for it and downloaded it just to find out that it's made for an older version of Android so I cannot use it on our devices.