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Scripto Schola – Alphabet Recognition Practice on Android Tablets

Scripto Schola is an Android app (free and paid versions available) that students can use to practice recognizing and drawing the letters of the alphabet. There are two ways that the app can be used. Students can draw lowercase and uppercase letters of the alphabet on their Android tablets. The other way the app can be used is to have students record themselves saying the letters of the alphabet when they see them on the app.

Scripto Schola’s free version has ads and limited font styles. The paid version does not have ads and has additional font styles.

Remarkable Offers Nice Apps for Young Students

Remarkable is a publisher of educational apps for children between three and six years of age. Remarkable offers three apps; Tracing ABC, What’s Different, and Mix and Match. There is a free version and paid version of each app. The difference between the free and paid versions is the paid versions ($0.99) offer more levels. Both the free and paid apps are ad-free.

Tracing ABC is an app, optimized for phones and tablets, that guides children through drawing letters. The app provides guidance for tracing through a simple star system. If the child using the app traces in the correct direction, stars are “checked off” as the child traces. If the child using the app doesn’t trace in the correct direction the stars aren’t checked off.  After correctly tracing each letter a word starting with that letter appears and is read to the child.

What’s Different is simple game of identifying patterns and picking out the object that doesn’t fit the pattern. Children using the app are shown four objects and have to identify the one that doesn’t fit the pattern. When the correct object is selected, a ladybug moves across the screen. The object is to get the ladybug to move all the way across the screen in a Mario Brothers-like manner.

Mix and Match is a simple puzzle game. Students put together simple images by  swiping through parts of an image until they find one that matches the other parts of the image.

Teachers Paradise Offers Nice Apps for Young Students

Last month I featured a nice app for young students to use to practice handwriting. That app, 123 ABC, is offered by Teachers Paradise. This morning I spent some time exploring more of the free app offerings from Teachers Paradise and found many that are appropriate for pre-K and early elementary school years.

The Teachers Paradise apps are a mix of flashcard-style apps, problem-solving apps, and tracing/ coloring apps.

Here’s a short list of some of the apps that stood out to me:

Math PRO presents students with problems that they can answer through multiple choice selections or open-ended response.

ASL Sign Language is a set of flashcards featuring hands modeling the correct hand position for the ASL alphabet. My sister has been teaching my two-year old niece sign language since she was quite small so this app grabbed my attention.

Kids ABC Jigsaw Puzzles is a set of simple jigsaw puzzles that when constructed correctly show a letter of the alphabet with an animal whose name starts with that letter.

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