Welcome to iSchoolSource.com's ABC's section where you will find many preschool learning enhancement tools for iLearning all things reading. We have reviewed many videos and apps that reinforce letter recognition, letter writing, phonics, and early reading skills for preschool aged children.
Know Learn How to Read ABC Alphabet Video is an adorable video that our four-year-old loves. The video takes children through the alphabet song again and again with different visually stimulating ways of showing the alphabet. This video is an over nine minute video of ABC learning, and in our opinion, an excellent learning tool for children.
Hooplakidz's ABC Song is an adorable way for children to practice their ABC's while watching the colorful video and singing along with the Hooplakidz's alphabet. The colorful pictures keep the mind stimulated and interested, while the pleasant sound of the ABC tune plays. A train of alphabet letters scrolls across the screen as the song plays. Such a cute ABC learning video.
Preschoolers that are learning their phonics sounds are sure to love watching a phonics video. A lovely song takes children through each phonics sounds in alphabetical order. While the song takes child through each letter and sound, there is also a picture of something that starts with the same sound as the letter. The Phonics Song is adorable, and will go well for learning phonics, as well as for phonics review.
Looking for a learning enhancement video for learning the letter sounds? The Phonics Song is a wonderful video that shows a child the letters of the alphabet, while singing what sound goes with it. Phonics Song is cute and the song is catchy, which will help the letter sounds stay with your child. Another great phonics learning video!
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ABC 123 Flashcard Fun Free is a free ABC flashcard app. There is no sound to this app, so it is probably best used with help. Children can see a letter, and tap it to see what beginning phonics sound it has. The graphics are pretty and colorful, and make for fun use with a free ABC flashcard App.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hooked-on-phonics/id318331495?ign-mpt=uo%3D4 Most people have heard of Hooked on Phonics for teaching children to read. While Hooked on Phonics does not have any Apps available for download from iTunes, they do offer some wonderful free podcasts for learning. These podcasts are actually videos that can be downloaded for a preschool aged child that is learning letters, as well as other preschool aged songs. There is a podcast with a video song for each letter of the alphabet, as well as other songs like The Itsy Bitsy Spider. These podcasts are free, and our four-year-old tester LOVES them. For the parent or teacher that is looking for something to enhance lessons on the different letters, these videos can be valuable. They use song to teach the letter concept to the child, which helps increase child's ability to remember the letter and its sound.
ABC Alphabet GoGo Flashcards Free is a wonderful flashcard app. When the app is first opened, the alphabet song is sung in the background. Child can easily navigate to the green play button to begin using the flashcards. Each flashcard says the name of the letter, and can be easily swiped across in order to see the next letter.
ABC Alphabet Music Instrument Flashcards Free is a free preschool flashcard app for young children who are learning their alphabet. The app includes musically themed pictures that begin with each letter of the alphabet. Children can click a letter and/or instrument to hear what the letter or instrument is. As they flip through, they work their way through the alphabet flashcards.
iPlay&Sing is a FREE App for Pre-School aged children for learning and all around fun. The iPlay&Sing App allows you child to customize the App with their name and a photo. If your child does not wish to use a photo, they can choose one of the images within the game to represent them. iPlay&Sing allows child to choose whether they want to trace numbers or letters, play piano or sing, guess the next letter or number, go through a maze, pick the odd one out, paint a picture, or find the proper number, letter, shape, or animal. This app also rewards your child with praise and a smiley when they get the correct answer. This App is a good everything app, and is sure to please any Pre-School aged child.
Watch our four-year-old tester, Zoe, play Row Row Row Your Boat on the iPlay&Sing App!
Aesop's Wheel of Fables is a storybook App by the makers of Stickery. Aesop's Wheel of Fables is a free iPad Native App in the App Store that reads fables to your child. Child simply spins the wheel to choose which fable they want to hear. Then, child clicks on the 'read story' button at the bottom of the page, and app opens up to the story, and reads it to your child.
It is really hard to find fault with a free app that reads fables to children. If we at iSchoolSource were to list one fault, it would have to be that the app does not highlight the words as story is read to your child. This is not a big thing, though, and this app is wonderful. Every child is sure to love Aesop's Fables. - Posted from my iPad
ABC Alphabet Phonics Song App is a wonderful Music and ABC learning app for preschool aged children. The app is free, and simple to use. Simple touch to open the app, and it begins singing through the alphabet. Each letter that is sung swirls over the screen and takes its place in order. A phonics version of the song may also be chosen to help teach children their phonics sounds.
ABCs and Me is a free Pre-School app in the App Store. iSchoolSource is fairly impressed with this free App, because there are no ads at all, the graphics are cute, and this App covers most anything. There are not any sort of games on this App, but it does allow children to go through colors, shapes, numbers, and the alphabet, as well as other pictures.
This App is good for children to explore, see, and hear what letters, numbers, shapes, and colors are. This App is great for young children through Pre-School aged children, as well as children with Special Needs.
LeapFrog Scouts ABC Garden App in the App Store is a wonderful app for pre-school aged children. The iPhone/iPod native App costs 99 cents in the App Store. While the App is for iPhone/iPod, the app works wonderful in 2X mode. I have to say that this app is well worth the 99 cents. My 4-year-old daughter enjoys playing this app for longer than many of the free apps, because Scout and Violet (Characters in the game) really seem to interact with her. Scout and Violet talk directly to my daughter, and explain what she is supposed to do. At first, my daughter would get in a hurry, and not listen to what Scout or Violet would say. I feel that my daughter has learned a valuable lesson in listening by playing this game, because when she would get in a hurry, she did not know what she was supposed to do. I explained to her that she needed to wait and listen to what she is supposed to do. Now, when she plays with this app, she patiently listens to the instructions, and she enjoys the app. The app takes my daughter through lessons on different letters, but each lesson is fun and interactive. I highly recommend this app as a learning tool for both listening and for learning the ABC's.
