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The reason some have suggested using "real books" is because, let's face it, that iPad is going to end up becoming a video game machine more than a reading supplement. Trust me, it will. Just as my wife kept buying all of these "learn to read" DVDs for our 2 kids and I kept telling her "watch, they're going to nag you to death & whine for it to be playing Dora & Thomas the Train 95% of the time"--bingo! I've had to really lay it down with them to fix that. It's a battle I'm more than capable of winning and do, but a battle that always pops up nonetheless.
Besides, I have hardly found the previous posts self-righteous at all. If you want self-righteous, it would sound like this "I don't know why parents nowadays want to spoil their kids and get them addicted to those stupid i-This and i-That gizmos? What's going on with these freaks? Do they really think Apple invented reading supplements? Have they never heard of, gee, I don't know, FLASH cards? What have the libraries been getting by with for all of these years before almight Apple came along & saved us from our wretched, poor existence? Where would Einstein be if his parents had sat around on their fat lazy hind-ends going 'uh, duh, like, I can't teach you to read son, Apple hasn't invented the iPad yet.' "
Now THAT is self-righteous & condescending.
LRH
My question was pretty specific and focused just on apps. It was not a general question about teaching a child to read. The first few answers weren't answers but were just posters opinion.
We have ABCMouse.com for our 2 year old. They have an iPad app that goes with it. I believe we paid $50 for the year. Check it out to see how far up it goes. It's a good mix of reading, music, puzzles and coloring.
Here is a list of highly rated (by whom I don't know) apps for kids in 2012 The 12 Best Children
Looking for app suggestions for my child who is just finishing up kindergarten. Any thoughts on helping him keep up with his "reading" over the summer. Right now he is working on sight words and sounding out words.
Not reading. . .maybe to young? Endless alaphabet (ABC) is amazing. A world flashes, and falls apart. You assemble the word back together. Then you get a cool act out (with monsters) of that word. It might fit the bell. . because you assemble/spell out the word. It does the phonetic and then it says it/defines it
It may be too young?
Here are some links. I know right away I need to get the "PRESS HERE" App. . .which is a favorite book of my toddler.
The ipad is a great educational tool (better than another good tool, Television) but just like any tool it can be used for good and not so good. I would set rules (okay you can play only these games in this folder. If you play movies/etc I'll take it away. . and won't let you play).
Balance in all things
but the value in the ipad over a regular book is engagement. . .it will keep them reading longer. There is something to be said for that.
Of course, I also bought my toddler an nexus 7 (he pretty much rejected, dads "IPAD" is all that matters *sigh. . )
Hi,
I`m not sure whether it is still relevant) but my son has begun learning to read recently and he likes to play I Know My World app on the iPad. It is one of those educational flashcard apps with letters and pictures of different objects and a voice-over naming them. It turned out to be pretty helpful for us
There is an app called "Apps gone free" and it updates every morning with a new list of apps that are free. Games, productivity, etc. But I have seen and gotten many books for free. One time I even got a Mercer Mayer book, Me & mom, which was a GREAT app because it would read to you, let you read, and would let you record 4 or 5 different voices reading the book too! So you can record mom reading it, dad, grandma, grandpa.
Reading rainbow - we have it, but don't subscribe. I think it's expensive. 10/month? I don't want to subscribe to that. We don't let my daughter have the ipad often enough. But you can make 5 different profiles and each get one free book.
Look at Storypatch. It's an app that lets kids write books that can be illustrated with either clip art or your own photos. It includes some Mad-Libs type templates that can be edited at will, or kids can write stories completely from scratch.
We got it for my daughter when she was going into kindergarten and she seemed to enjoy it. We wrote some stories together about things that had happened in pictures we'd taken, and she wrote some on her own.
Another vote for Endless ABC (also called Endless Alphabet) it is excellent, my 22 mo. old knows all his letters and the sounds they make from this app alone. ABC Animals is also good, but I don't think it works on the IPAD. I know Endless Alphabet does, its cute, fun, educational, and free!
I've never seen so many unhelpful replies, does everything have to be some debate on parenting choices filled with drama and arguing?! The OP asked for helpful IPAD apps, not parenting advice on allowing their child to use an IPAD as another tool in teaching her child to read. Clearly they've made that choice already, no need to berate over IPAD vs. the library.
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