"Very Nice" *****
06/10/09 22:19 Filed in: PocketPhonics | iPhone apps
This is a very nice app my child is now learn sounds and to spell and finds this app very fun and useful. Maybe you could ad more words to work on and maybe a button the gives a word the letter starts with example sound of e - elephant. I find kids have a hard time with vowels so a word might help them figure out the different sounds by relating it to a word a - apple e - elephant i - igloo o - oyster and u - umbrella Other than that thos app was worth every penny 5 stars hands down ThanksBlessings
By: www.djfete.ca (Canada iTunes store, 5 October 2009)
Vowels are tricky because they can make different sounds. PocketPhonics at the moment covers just the most frequent letter sounds. "Elephant" is a good example of how vowels can be tricky as most people tend to say "lephant" with a silent "e" at the beginning! I do agree though that it be good to be able to help children learn the letter sounds by listening to words that start with that sound. It's something I'd like to do well though, because often it's done in a contrived way with words that children would never normally use just to have something with that sound at the beginning.