Montessorium: Intro to Letters 4+
English ABC’s with Montessori
Higher Ground Education Inc
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Intro to Letters will help your child learn to trace, read, write, and record letter sounds, names, and phonograms in English! Based on the Montessori philosophy.
Intro to Letters will help your child learn to trace, read, write, and record letter sounds, names, and phonograms in English! Based on the proven methodology of Montessori.
"Minimalist yet engaging, the sleekly designed app makes self-directed learning what it should be: Fun, simple, yet effective." - Maria Popova
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YOUR CHILD WILL LEARN:
• Basic foundations of language
• To read, write and understand English letters from A-Z
• Lowercase letter symbols and their sounds (phonics)
• Capital letters - letter names, writing and pronunciation
• Phonograms - writing and pronunciation
• Consonants and vowels
• Fine motor skills
Intro to Letters includes the following activities:
• LETTER SOUNDS (Lowercase Letters)
The first activity places an emphasis on phonetics instead of letter sounds. Your child will learn the sounds of the letters through a series of guided, interactive exercises.
• PHONOGRAMS
Similar to the letter sounds, your child will work through the sounds of phonograms and unite them with their symbols.
• FLASHCARDS
Connect the sounds of the lowercase letters with their uppercase counterparts.
• LETTER NAMES (Capital Letters)
The objective of this activity is to acquire a knowledge of the names and symbols of the capital letters.
• SOUNDCARDS
A special recording section to help your child learn sounds, phonograms and names.
• PRACTICE MODE
- This section allows kids to practice specific letters or phonograms. A new toggle feature allows the user to isolate their tracing paths.
• ADDITIONAL FEATURES:
Recording Studio: Adults can record their own pronunciations of letter sounds and names to use throughout the app so children learn from a voice they love. Follow the instructions in the Parent Portal to get started.
Integrated Kids Library: Swiping the home screen will reveal all Montessorium apps on the user’s device. Tap an app icon to switch to a different activity.
Integrated Parent Portal: We’ve added several tools to help adults access information. With “Journal”, adults can stay up to date with Montessorium news and read posts on education, design, and technology.
Intro to Letters is a universal app for use on the iPad and iPhone. Please note, the Recording Studio functionality will not work on the iPod Touch.
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Concept and design by Montessorium. Development of Intro to Letters 3.0 by Ymedia Labs.
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What’s New
Version 3.1.1
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Updated for iPhone X.
Ratings and Reviews
Fantastic
This app is fantastic. My 3 year old chooses this app every time he goes on my iPad, and within a week of using it he can recognise half the letters. It's great how you are shown the right way to write the letters too. The only thing I'd add would be the ability to add your childs name so they can learn to write/ recognise it.
Good with some fixable problems
Really nice app, keeps our 4 year old engaged while he learns a few letters at a time. But the tracing function needs to ignore extra touches, especially on iPad, as children are prone to resting their hand on the screen while writing. Good value considering what you can get in printed form for £3 but I expected the writing input to not frustrate the child.
Also, recording and playback of the child's voice is a nice feature but the control could be more streamlined, say with an automatic 2-3 seconds record then playback, without requiring 3 taps on the screen.
I don't mean to sound too down on this app, it's good already and would be great with these problems solved in an update.
Intro to letters
This is a really good app, and a huge relief that it isn't just American, and most letters sound ok.
However, I have one request for a change and it seems an obvious requirement. On the "random" choice setting, the child is shown how to trace the letter properly, ie the entire route to produce the letter correctly, but on the "ordered" choice, only the starting point is shown - why not the whole route?
Perhaps this level of instruction to the child could be user-controlled in a settings section, so that it could be turned on when the child is first learning and off when they are more proficient.
App Privacy
The developer, Higher Ground Education Inc, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
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Information
- Provider
- Higher Ground Education Inc
- Size
- 41.6 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+, Made for Ages 0 to 5
- Copyright
- © Higher Ground Education Inc
- Price
- Free