The new phonic based learning application available on Google Play and coming to iTunes soon!

• Read: learn the correct 44 phonic sounds of the English language
• Write: learn to write the letters of the English alphabet
• Phonics: learn how to blend the phonic sounds to form words

Our App teaches children the 44 phonic sounds of the English language, the letters and letter combinations which represent them, how the basic phonic sounds are blended together to form words, and how to write the letters of the alphabet by tracing dotted letter forms.

Read Write Phonics has been designed with teaching children in mind; clear and simple flash cards are used, the font is the popular Sassoon Infant font developed especially for children’s first books and traditional learning aids and the navigation is simple and intuitive, children from as young as 3 can manipulate the App.

The App has a very clean design, there are no distracting images on the letter or phonic sound cards, your child can focus on learning the sounds and learning how to form letters. The example word cards in the read section each use one simple bright image to prompt your child with the meaning.

Children tap and swipe their way through the 44 sounds, each with an example word, learn to make the sounds themselves, how to blend sounds to form words and how to write the letters.

The three sections of the Application are all accessible straight for the home screen: Read Write and Phonics.

More details of each section are shown below;

Read:

The aim of the read section of our App is to introduce children to the correct individual the phonic sounds (phonemes) and the letters and popular letter combinations that represent them (graphemes).
This first step is the one we wanted to make sure that our son took correctly, we wanted to be sure that he was making the correct sounds, after struggling to find a reliable accessible source we decided to make one ourselves.
The read menu groups the 44 phonic sounds into 5 groups, three of the 5 are based on how the consonant sounds are made and the last 2 are short and long vowels sounds. Each group contains multiple flash cards.
Children learn the phonic sounds, represented by each card, by listening to and repeating the sounds. The letter cards then animate into example words, listening and repeating the example words will reinforce how the phonic sounds form part of the word.
As the child grows more confident they can make the sound before the App and listen to check their pronunciation and enforce their learning. Tapping the screen or the speaker button will play the sounds and words again and tapping the redo button will start at the letter again if on the example word. To move through the flash cards use the forward and back arrows.
Once at the end, shown by the progress bar, tap the home key to go back to the read menu.

Write:

The aim of the write section is to introduce forming written letters in an easy accessible fun way with some instant reward. The Write menu groups the letters of the alphabet into 4 groups. The letters in each group are traced by the cartoon pencil as an example first, this will then fade to allow the child to try.
A hand will appear and point to the start dot to tell the child it is their turn, the hand will reappear if the child forgets the second stroke on f, k, t or x and to prompt the child to dot the i and the j.
The child can then use their finger to trace letter and will be awarded upto 3 stars for their effort. The score is based on accuracy and smoothness of the line, a very jittery line covering every dot will score worse than a smooth line just missing one or two dots.
The star scoring has been achieved by carefully balancing the marking of the distance travelled by the finger, the distance from each dot, and the distance between zones around each dot. To see the animation example and try tracing again tap the redo button. To move through the cards use the forward and back arrows.

Phonics:

The phonics section is key to the App, this is the second step after the read section and like the read section is a big part of why we developed the “read write phonics” App.
The aim here is to introduce children to the concept of blending sounds (phonemes) together to form words, and thereby how to read! The phonics menu groups example words into small words; two and three letter, mostly CVC (consonant vowel consonants) words, and big words, four letters and above.
This section of the App makes very good use of touch screen technology and is why, we think, our App is better than some traditional phonic resources.
Tapping the speaker button plays the word in full, tapping the individual letters or letter groups (graphemes) plays the individual sounds, and now for the clever bit; swiping or stroking through the word plays the individual sounds one after the other, swiping through the words faster blends the sounds together into the word. As the sounds of the individual letters play the letters pulse then fade to show which letters the sounds relate to. This is a great way for children to experience blending sounds to form words, importantly with the correct sounds.
The three methods of hearing sounds within the phonics section; hearing the words; in full, by individual phonemes, and one after the other quickly, give children a great understanding of how to read and how letters and letter groups form words. The process can be done in either order, blending up to a full word, or full word then slowly swiping, then tapping to segment the word down into its individual phonemes.

To move through the different words use the forward and back arrows and the menu button to return to the phonics menu.