Kidioms 4+

Ventura Educational Systems

Designed for iPad

    • 1.0 • 1 Rating
    • $1.99

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Description

Kidioms – An Introduction to Idioms for Kids

The Kidioms iPad app makes learning idioms fun for children, ELL students, or anyone wishing to improve their understanding of English. The app uses an interactive notebook to present an idiom, it's meaning and an example showing the idiom used in context. Each page of the notebook also has a graphic to help illustrate the idiom’s meaning.

In addition to the lessons, Kidioms offers three interactive activities to help reinforce the concepts and provide practice using and understanding the idioms. Word Drop challenges the learner to complete the idiom by choosing the correct missing word. Missing Word asks the user to spell the missing word. In Match-Up the player selects the correct idiom to fill in the blank in a larger block of text.

Common Core Standard that are address by Kidioms:

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

Grade 3

•L.3.5. Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
◦Distinguish the literal and non-literal meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g.,take steps).
◦Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful).
◦Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered).

Grade 4

•L.4.5. Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
◦Explain the meaning of simple similes and metaphors (e.g., as pretty as a picture) in context.
◦Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs.
Demonstrate understanding of words by relating them to their opposites (antonyms) and to words with similar but not identical meanings (synonyms).

Grade 5

L.5.5. Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
•Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context.
•Recognize and explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs.
Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonyms, antonyms, homographs) to better understand each of the words.

What’s New

Version 3.1

This update provides additional speech functions for the meaning of the idioms presented and for the examples given. If your students who are working to improve reading skills teachers may want to use the speech function so that the idioms, their meanings and explanations are read aloud. Kidioms 1, 2 and 3 have all been updated.

Ratings and Reviews

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1 Rating

Sindif ,

Rip off!

Don't go by the cute, colorful picture you see here. This is a very basic app with little color and not child friendly.

Developer Response ,

This app is designed to be primarily a reading and language development app. Our intention was to focus the child's attention or the reading skills and to not have graphic or animated distractions.

App Privacy

The developer, Ventura Educational Systems, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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