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Phonics Ninja

Phonics Ninja

by Innovative Investments Limited

41 ratings
63 reviews
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📚 Education
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$0.99

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Released
September 23, 2016
Updated
March 22, 2017

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Innovative Investments Limited
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This educational game helps children master phonics, blends, and digraphs through interactive slicing gameplay. It offers customizable difficulty levels and focuses on multi-sensory learning to keep young learners engaged and improving their reading skills.

✓Slice lowercase letters by sound
✓Slice phonic blends
✓Slice phonic digraphs
✓Customizable sound categories
✓Adjustable difficulty levels
✓Multi-sensory learning
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What users say about Phonics Ninja

Reviews of Phonics Ninja are mixed: the Education app is rated 3.5/5 from 41 App Store ratings. What users like most: fun and engaging for kids, great for learning phonics. Top complaints: sound not working, no sound at all. Summarized from real user reviews.

Positive things

  • 👍Fun and engaging for kids
  • 💡Great for learning phonics
  • 🚀Helps with spelling tests
  • ✨Customizable lists for practice
  • 🎯Good for sight word practice
  • 💯Effective for beginners
  • 🌟Makes learning fun
  • 📚Useful for literacy centers
  • 🎯Good for drilling
  • 🎉Kids love it
  • 💡Great for auditory discrimination
  • 🚀Helps with fluency
  • 🌈Colorful and fast-paced
  • ✅Positive feedback loop
  • 💡Errorless learning approach
  • 🥳Kids have a blast
  • 🚀Great for RTI students
  • 💡Good for combining sounds/letters
  • 🎯Targets fluency in sound-letter associations
  • 🥳Fun way to review sounds
  • 💡Focuses on sounds for beginning readers
  • 🚀Makes drill work fun
  • 💡Increases phonemic awareness
  • 🎯Great for practicing blends and digraphs
  • ✅Sounds are mostly spot on
  • 💡Customizable settings for learning
  • 🚀Motivating for reading students
  • 💯Great for special needs students
  • 💡Good for introducing phonics
  • 👍Easy to use
  • ✅Good for warm-ups
  • 💡Great twist on a favorite game
  • 💯Great job!

Negative things

  • 🐛Sound not working
  • ❌No sound at all
  • 🐛Sounds not clipped correctly
  • 🐛Incorrect pronunciation of blends
  • 🐛"uh" sound added to consonant sounds
  • 🐛"q" pronounced as "kw"
  • 🐛Some syllables odd
  • 🐛Pace too much for some children
  • 🐛No penalty for random guesses
  • 🐛App gives no direction/introductory lesson
  • 🐛Many sounds not articulated accurately/clearly
  • 🐛Not enough feedback
  • 🐛Some errors in digraph pronunciation
  • 🐛Vowel sound added to end of phonemes
  • 🐛"fl" sounds like "fla"
  • 🐛"p" sounds like "pa"
  • 🐛Incorrect markings on some sounds
  • 🐛Some blends pronounced with short "a" sound at the end
  • 🐛Needs more features like combining sounds
  • 🐛Could use specific words for articulation
  • 🐛Not perfectly accurate
  • 🐛Some blends pronounced with an added vowel sound
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What's New in Phonics Ninja

2.0

March 22, 2017

This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included. ● Minor bug fixes and improvements

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Sounds aren’t working

The sounds are not working. There are absolutely zero sounds upon opening the app, and playing the game. That makes this app useless. VERY dissatisfied.
TTheCraftyCouple

Sounds aren’t working

The sounds are not working
TTheCraftyCouple

Sound not working

Why isn’t the sound working for phonic or abc ninja?
MMommaG2019123

Sounds are not clipped!

Some sounds are pronounced correctly but many…especially the blends are not clipped. BL is not pronounced /bluh/. It should be just /bl/. I won’t be using this or recommending it until this is changed.
RReadingIsFundamental2

Not enough feedback

My students enjoy this game but there is no penalty for random guesses please make it more similar to Fruit Ninja … only allow a few errors before game over. We have to teach them to recognize accurate connections of sound/symbol relationships, not random guessing!
LLCLumas
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Reported Bugs

10 issues

Sounds are not working

Bug

No sound at all

Bug

Some sounds are not clipped

Bug

Incorrect pronunciation of blends

Bug

Incorrect pronunciation of digraphs

Bug

Incorrect pronunciation of "q"

Bug

Added "uh" sound to consonant sounds

Bug

Added vowel sound to end of phonemes

Bug

Incorrect markings on some sounds

Bug

Some blends pronounced with short "a" sound at the end

Bug
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Requested Features

11 requests

Make it more similar to Fruit Ninja with a penalty for errors

Feature

Add more features like combining sounds to create words

Feature

Include specific words that target articulation sounds

Feature

Fix how letters are presented (e.g., only 'c' or 'k' for /k/ sound)

Feature

Count both letters correct if presented together

Feature

Add dark mode option

Feature

Improve pronunciation of blends

Feature

Remove the added "uh" sound after consonant sounds

Feature

Fix pronunciation of "q"

Feature

Allow shutting down all in each category for beginners

Feature

Add more levels or content

Feature

FAQ

What does Phonics Ninja do?

Phonics Ninja is an educational game designed to help children learn letter sounds, blends, and digraphs. It uses an engaging slicing mechanic, similar to popular action games, to make learning fun and effective. The app focuses on multi-sensory learning through sight, sound, and touch.

What specific phonics skills does the app teach?

The app teaches lowercase letter sounds, a variety of phonic blends (e.g., bl, br, cl), and phonic digraphs (e.g., ch, sh, th). Users can customize which categories of sounds are active in the game.

Is Phonics Ninja free to use?

Yes, the application is free to use. It does not contain in-app purchases or advertisements, providing an uninterrupted learning experience for children.

What age is Phonics Ninja suitable for?

The app is designed to be very easy to use, with a description suggesting even a 9-month-old baby could delight in using it. It's particularly beneficial for children who are learning to read and mastering phonics.

How does the app adjust difficulty?

The game features dynamic difficulty adjustment based on the player's skills. It offers three settings: EASY (one sound, slow letters), MEDIUM (up to three sounds, faster letters), and HARD (up to five sounds, faster and rotating letters). Users can also manually adjust settings for individual letter and phonic sounds.