Portable electronic devices are no
longer just about entertainment and this is particularly true for tablets, both
android and iOS. Sure you can use them for entertainment, but when you consider
the apps that are currently available, it is a situation that no longer equates
completely with games. You can readily access books and magazines if you have
the correct apps installed on your devices and when it comes to children, there
are more and more educational apps becoming available every day.
iPad Magazine
for Vocabulary Apps Reviews
The June Special Edition of Hit Tap Magazine for iPad features a
dedicated section for reviews of vocabulary apps. Chicktionary is free and is
basically a word scramble involving seven letters, complete with Muppet type
chickens and associated sound effects. Vocabasplat is another fun learning game
and geared towards children aged between four and six years. It uses a spoken
words and pictures which have to match up, and when they do, you throw a ball
at the picture prior to moving on to the next.
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The Opposites is another free app for
youngsters where the object of the game is to match up antonym pairs.
Left/Right and Day/Night are examples and the matches become more complex as
children work through the game. Sight Words is a paid app where children have
to spell the word that matches a picture, before being rewarded with a verbal
‘well done’. It also has a couple of incremental levels that children can work
through so that they can continue to be challenged and improve their
vocabulary. Another paid app is O! Kids Vocab where words are presented as
paintings that children can the click on to produce narrations of the meaning
of words as well as pronunciation and animations related to the meaning of the
word.
Conclusion
The vocabulary improvement apps are
designed to be fun and they add a new dimension to the way children learn about
words, their spelling and meanings. Hit Tap
Magazine for iPad regularly provides reviews of these types of
games and apps and this month, they feature specifically for iOS devices. When
the learning experience is so much fun, we can expect continued improvements in
children’s literacy levels and some of these apps also challenge adults too.
This being so, parents and children can both learn together and have some fun
together at the same time.
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