This FREE app for the iPhone/iPad is geared towards toddlers and has two modes – game and learning. In the learning mode, kids are shown a picture then the word is pronounced. In the game mode, kids tap on the word to have it pronounced then choose the correct picture. Only about 20 animals from two categories (aquatic animals & birds) are available without an in-app purchase. It is supported in two languages – English and Vietnamese. A major problem with the app is that the English pronunciations are not clear – shark sounds like shrock, penguin sounds like pengin – not recommended for this reason.

This FREE app for the iPad has toddlers/young learners making 200+ words for objects in 6 different categories – animals, colors, shapes, vehicles, vegetable & fruits, and common words. A picture is show with the word spelled under it (in black). Under the black spelled word are all the letters that make up that word (in orange) but they are scrambled. The child is supposed to drag the orange letters onto the black letters to spell the word (the correct order is not required). As he/she does, each letter is named. When the entire word is complete the word is spelled and named. Nice features: If the child touches the picture, the word is spelled then pronounced. If the child touched a black letter, that letter is named and the corresponding orange letter below twists. I wish the app required the child to spell the words in order – that would help emphasize that words are written from left to right. Lots of letter practice is built into this app but I wish developers would also include lower case letters when creating an app for kids.

Worth downloading to see if this app is something your child would enjoy but the Common Core Standards for kindergarten require recognition and naming of all upper and lower case letters.