Montessori Crosswords for Kids

October 18, 2019

iOS 13 Support

May 15, 2017

Thanks for your feedback & suggestions :-) Here are the last changes: • Allow disabling items on the home page • Updated pronunciation of some letters in some complex words • 64 bits compatibility

July 4, 2014

• "ng" & "l" sound updated • Add parental control when exporting reports via email • Bug fix: it is now possible to focus on one sound when 'Show R-Controlled Vowels' setting is disabled Introduced in Version 5.0 • Create any number of users • Check and export activity for each user in the new Reports section • Create your word lists based on letter clusters • Digraphs ('oo','th', etc.) are now displayed as a whole unit • New section for words with digraphs • New section for CCVC & CVCC words • R-Controlled vowels support ('car','horn', etc.) • New default word lists in the 'Focus on...' section • Setting to show only letters that are in the word to spell (great for beginners!) • Setting to force spelling from left to right • Setting to allow interaction with words after completion (to study a word once it is completed) • New letter font for 't' and 'l' • Many other new settings (background audio, interaction time limit,...) Thanks for your precious feedback to make this app even better ! Please rate the app if you like it - it is important to let other parents and teachers that an app is great :-) You can rate directly from the 'Parents' section. Hope you enjoy all the new features, and thanks if you take one minute to rate the app !

April 28, 2014

• Create any number of users • Check and export activity for each user in the new Reports section • Create your word lists based on letter clusters • Digraphs ('oo','th', etc.) are now displayed as a whole unit • New section for words with digraphs • New section for CCVC & CVCC words • R-Controlled vowels support ('car','horn', etc.) • New default word lists in the 'Focus on...' section • Setting to show only letters that are in the word to spell (great for beginners!) • Setting to force spelling from left to right • Setting to allow interaction with words after completion (to study a word once it is completed) • New letter font for 't' and 'l' • Many other new settings (background audio, interaction time limit,...) Thanks for your precious feedback to make this app even better ! Please rate the app if you like it - it is important to let other parents and teachers that an app is great :-) You can rate directly from the 'Parents' section. Hope you enjoy all the new features, and thanks if you take one minute to rate the app !

October 4, 2013

New Feature ! • You can now focus on certain themes (animals, colors,...) in addition to the current possibility to select words according to difficulty and phonics. •The app is also fully iOS7 compatible. Thanks for your feedback ! Please continue to send feedback so we can make the app even better.

March 15, 2012

Note: if you don't have sound, it is because the side switch is enabled and it mutes sound. V3.6-> Thanks for your great feedback that help us to make the app better and better - we are listening to our users to improve our products! ➜New dialog to prevent kids to use external links ➜Words reordered in "Focus on one sound" section If you’ve got a moment, please rate the app - or re-rate this version - to tell people it's a great app and so we can keep free updates coming. We've included a shortcut ( "Feedback/Rate this App" button) inside the app to ease the process. Thanks! History: v3.5: New words, Phonics & Christmas word list v3.0: Advanced Phonics Support thanks to the feedback of parents,SLPs and teachers. The app now supports 41 different phonics so that : ➜Kids can touch the white rectangles where they must place letters, and hear the phonics for the word. All phonics are supported: long and short vowels, consonants digraph like "th", and even silent letters. ➜Phonics played are chosen according to the words displayed so they are always correct. ➜You can choose to focus on a set of words that contains a specific phonic - e.g. short a, long a, sh sound, silent e,... There are 44 categories to choose from ➜For levels 2 and 3, you can also now play with single words. ➜Cursive letters have been added as an alternate choice. v 2.5 ➜Option to limit time play of Interactive Animation (available via the "Settings" app) ➜Option to hide solutions (available via the "Settings" app) ➜Louder word audio ➜Word is now pronounced when a word is completed. In addition, letter sounds are also pronounced in level 1 when a word is completed ➜Interactive animations are now supporting up to two touches at the same time for even more fun ! v2.0 ➜ New words, audio and phonics

December 15, 2011

★ v3.5: Even better Phonics Support & Qwerty Layout ★ Yet another free update of Montessori Crosswords thanks to the feedback of parents,SLPs and teachers. This time, we bring : ➜New Christmas Words Section (20 words) ! ➜Qwerty Layout option (available when one word is displayed) ➜New phonic for short E ➜Alternate phonics for L and R options ➜Advanced Settings available directly in the app (hide solutions and limit animation time) ➜More space between alphabet letters (available when one word is displayed) ➜Better visual feedback for digraph like "ch","oi",.. ➜New "ck" category ➜New words for "oi" If you’ve got a moment, please rate the app - or re-rate this version since rating is per version - to tell parents it's a great app and so we can keep free updates coming. We've included a shortcut ( "Contact Us/Rate this App" button) inside the app to ease the process. Thanks! Do not hesitate to tell us what you think about this update or sent us new suggestions for the next update (use the "Contact Us" button or mail to support@lescapadou.com). Thanks again for your great feedback that help us to make the app better and better - we are listening to our users to improve our products! -- History: v3.0 The app now supports 41 different phonics so that : ➜Kids can touch the white rectangles where they must place letters, and hear the phonics for the word. All phonics are supported: long and short vowels, consonants digraph like "th", and even silent letters. ➜Phonics played are chosen according to the words displayed so they are always correct. ➜You can choose to focus on a set of words that contains a specific phonic - e.g. short a, long a, sh sound, silent e,... There are 44 categories to choose from ➜For levels 2 and 3, you can also now play with single words. ➜Cursive letters have been added as an alternate choice. v 2.5 ➜Option to limit time play of Interactive Animation (available via the "Settings" app) ➜Option to hide solutions (available via the "Settings" app) ➜Louder word audio ➜Word is now pronounced when a word is completed. In addition, letter sounds are also pronounced in level 1 when a word is completed ➜Interactive animations are now supporting up to two touches at the same time for even more fun ! v2.0 ➜ New words, audio and phonics

June 17, 2011

★ v3.0: Advanced Phonics Support ★ (note: v3.5 coming very soon with new users' requests!) Yet another free update of Montessori Crosswords thanks to the feedback of parents,SLPs and teachers. This time, we bring advanced phonics support for all 300 words. The app now supports 41 different phonics so that : ➜Kids can touch the white rectangles where they must place letters, and hear the phonics for the word. All phonics are supported: long and short vowels, consonants digraph like "th", and even silent letters. ➜Phonics played are chosen according to the words displayed so they are always correct. ➜You can choose to focus on a set of words that contains a specific phonic - e.g. short a, long a, sh sound, silent e,... There are 44 categories to choose from ➜For levels 2 and 3, you can also now play with single words. ➜Cursive letters have been added as an alternate choice. If you’ve got a moment, please rate the app - or re-rate this version - to tell people it's a great app and so we can keep free updates coming. We've included a shortcut ( "Feedback/Rate this App" button) inside the app to ease the process. Thanks! Do not hesitate to tell us what you think about this update or sent us new suggestions (use the "Feedback/Mail" button). For the next update, we want to add new words and... your suggestions! Thanks for your great feedback that help us to make the app better and better - we are listening to our users to improve our products! History: v 2.5 with teachers and parents requested features. ➜Option to limit time play of Interactive Animation (available via the "Settings" app) ➜Option to hide solutions (available via the "Settings" app) ➜Louder word audio ➜Word is now pronounced when a word is completed. In addition, letter sounds are also pronounced in level 1 when a word is completed ➜Interactive animations are now supporting up to two touches at the same time for even more fun ! v2.0 ➜ New words, audio and phonics

January 28, 2011

Last News: Another free update is coming very soon (already submitted to Apple) with even better phonics support (long vowel sounds,silent letter,...)  as well as a new way to choose words or crosswords according to letter sounds ! ➜version 2.5 with teachers and parents requested features. Thanks for the feedback ! ★Option to limit time play of Interactive Animation (available via the "Settings" app) ★Option to hide solutions (available via the "Settings" app) ★Louder word audio ★Word is now pronounced when a word is completed. In addition, letter sounds are also pronounced in level 1 when a word is completed ★Interactive animations are now supporting up to two touches at the same time for even more fun ! ➜ If you’ve got a moment, please rate the app - or re-rate this version - to tell people it's a great app and so we can keep free updates coming. We've included a shorcut ( "Feedback/Rate this App" button) inside the app to ease the process. Thanks! ➜ Do not hesitate to tell us what you think about this update or sent us new suggestions (use the "Feedback/Mail" button). Thanks again for your great feedback - we are listening to our users to improve our products! History: 2.0.1 ★Sound of the letter O updated + option to disable the letter Q sound (thanks parents and educators for the feedback!) 2.0 : ★AUDIO for each word and letter sound (phonics) for each letter! ★We also added some new words (300 word-image-audio combinations now!). We are very excited about this huge update, audio was the most wanted user-requested feature.

December 14, 2010

2.0 : AUDIO for each word and letter sound (phonics) for each letter! We also added some new words (300 word-image-audio combinations now!). We are very excited about this huge update, audio was the most wanted user-requested feature. 2.0.1 : Sound of the letter O updated + option to disable the letter Q sound (thanks parents and educators for the feedback!) Do not hesitate to tell us what you think about this update (use the feedback/mail to us button) and if you’ve got the time please rate the app (use the feedback/rate this app button). Thanks again for your great feedback - we are listening to our users to improve our products!