Children as young as a year can improve letter recognition with this adorable app If you’re a parent looking for a fun way to teach your toddler about letters, then the ABC Song will not disappoint. A cute version of the ABC Song serves as inspiration for the many activities included in the free version [...]

   A colorful and useful app for helping kids learn to spell   We’ve covered quite a few sight words and spelling apps on the site recently, thanks in no small part to some very cool ideas that are showing up on the educational apps radar. Learning to read sight words (words whose spelling is [...]

  This spelling app is useful for parents who wish to make studying words at home more enjoyable Super Speller is an easy to use and customizable app to help children memorize their spelling words. On the most basic level, you create a spelling test by recording your voice saying a word and entering the [...]

    Whimsical and amusing, The Singing Alphabet app is both educational and tremendously entertaining. The Singing Alphabet is amazing. It’s a simple idea – tap a letter and hear it sing – and it’s got just a single function, but it’s so winningly designed and cleverly presented that it immediately shot to the top [...]

    Simplex Spelling Phonics 1 has got great reviews and helps children sound out words to improve spelling results.   After sight words are taught, one of the most important lessons parents and educators need to focus on for improvements in spelling is using phonetic sounds. The Simplex Spelling Phonics 1 is an easy [...]

Wonder Kids is a free app with a number of in-app purchases ($.99 each). It’s a fairly basic learning app for young kids, but it offers a good range of different activities. It’s aimed at pre-schoolers, and features brightly colored animals and other images. The app is primarily focused on teaching kids simple words and [...]

  An app for kids ages eight and up that plays with words and teaches parts of speech.   We loved Alien Buddies, a great preschoolers’ app from Artgig, so we were eager to check out Shake-a-Phrase, another app from the New York-based company that targets kids ages eight and up. This is a word [...]

  My A-Z allows you to design your own flashcards to engage your child in learning the alphabet   With a simple interface and easy controls, you’ll be able to use this app to create your own fun and unique alphabet-themed flashcards in no time. Not feeling creative? A group of pre-made cards already comes with [...]