Apps That Will Teach Your Children To Read And Love Reading
Today is Literacy Day, an unofficial holiday dedicated to reading, a skill that 800 million people accross the globe never got to acquire. Celebrate this day by reading with your kids, make them aware of the importance of reading and teach them how to love books.
Baby Steps
Where to start? From the beginning, that is the usual lame joke and also very sensible instruction. When it comes to reading, the very start is understanding letters and sounds, and how they relate to one another. A good your-first-alphabet sort of app should combine sounds and printed letters in different styles where kids can learn what shapes to look for. Needless to say, it should be fun! J
Dr. Seuss has brought joy to countless kids around the globe, and to this day I am ready to solemnly swear he’ll teach you everything you need to know about life. But not to get ahead of ourselves, let’s take baby steps with Dr. Seuss’s ABC. This app narrates a simple story and words are highlighted when narrated, so that your kidns can tap on them as the story progresses and follow along with the highlighted text. Late ron, you can also switch the settings to “Read it Myself”, when your child is ready to embark on the adventure of reading on their own.
You Read With Your Heart
Feel Electric! is so fun, interactive and engaging it really redefines the term „educational app“. Along with practicing reading skills, kids learn how to express their emotions, something that proves to be quite beneficial in their psychological development. There are three games in the app, a silly story maker; photos you can tag with words describing how they made you feel, a glossary of emotions with more than 50 words, and a digital diary where kids can keep track of their moods and feelings with a little help o fan adorable character “Mood Dude,”. Along with learning how to read, your kid will learn how to express their emotions more clearly, and boy, is that better than screaming fits.
Now, What Did We Learn From That?
Reading should be fun, but you also don’t want your kids to just skim through them and run through the plot. Developing reading comprehension may sound like a boring syntagm, but it is a valuable life skill- when you finish a book, you take something with you, a special part that stuck, a lesson learned, a sentence you will remember when you’re grey and old.
Aesop’s Quest, based on Aesop’s Fables, makes reading comprehension into a game- while reading, children have to remember elements of a story to complete a level. At the end of each story segment or level they get a little reward, a piece of the puzzle that becomes an animation when put together. After solving the puzzle, the story is complete and you can go on to the next one!
Make Reading A Habit
Most of us fell in love with books when our parents read bedtime stories to us or with us. It’s a special time of the day when all the fuss settles, and you take some time to enjoy the things you love before wandering off to the dreamland.
The animated story of little WhoWho, is a perfect read, as a loveable owl announces bedtime to all its forest friends. It is a soothing children’s poem narrated through an interactive storybook filled with adorable animated animal characters you can interact with, Your kid will get to know all the furry, feathery and friendly wood-dwellers as they say good night to them and get ready to fall asleep.
Although most of these games have an auto-play option that enables your child to learn and play by themselves, don’t just stick them with the tablet and rush off doing one of the million chores you have, They may learn how to read on their own, with the help of a app, but it is through interaction and shared moments that kids learn to love to read.
