Barnyard Picks vs Energetic Alpha

Features of Barnyard Picks • Four engaging games that help kids develop reading comprehension • Increments to the next sentence group once the child has mastered the current group • Helps train attention to detail and focus • Difficulty level is automatically adjusted • Scores are automatically saved to show progress and can be used to identify a child's success. • Scores can also be emailed to keep a record of a child's progress. • Colorful graphics and lively music make this game fun to play • Kid-safe: No third party ads or tracking These BrainTrain games help children develop their reading comprehension skills. Children, ages 6 to 8, will explore a farm as they have fun playing and learning. All of our games are specially created to help children practice the cognitive abilities important in school and life. The games involve choosing the correct word to complete each sentence. They automatically increment to the next sentence group after the student has mastered the current group twice. The games automatically adjust to allow children to learn at a level of difficulty personalized for them. As they succeed, new challenges at harder levels will be presented. While a child's difficulty level is automatically adjusted based on his or her performance, it can be easily modified by parents or teachers when necessary. Distraction stimuli can also be added to reinforce increased focus and the ability to stay on task. This reading comprehension game becomes progressively more challenging as players succeed and improve. Each game level must be completed for grades to be saved. A training session is completed only when the program is stopped and then removed from memory. If the program is left open in the background and it is selected, then the last session started will be continued. The app will start off with a 60 minute trial version. You can modify the options and run the games during this trial period. Once the trial has ended, you will need to make a one-time in-app purchase to unlock the games for unlimited use.

Encourage your child to identify letters and learn to write in English with this fun and engaging app! Main Features include • Letter writing tools • Helpful feedback features • Letter learning audio • Fun and unique animations and videos Our team created Energetic Alpha, an interactive alphabet app that helps instruct children how to write, using proper stroke order. The simple navigation and streamlined features make this app especially easy to use for little ones. The app tracks a child’s successful attempts and rewards them with animations and videos that feature a corresponding verb, for example, A is for Appear, B is for Build, and C is for Camouflage. All 26 letters are represented in unique animations. This app is best for children learning to write, between 3 and 6 years of age, who are learning language and letterforms. Both the upper and lowercase letterforms are available for writing practice. Energetic Alpha was created by parents and university professors with help from K-12 teachers, and children using a process called co-design to discover what kids want in an iPad learning app. The best ideas were used to make a fun and playful writing experience. They relied on best practices in children’s design and user experience to create an easy to use and educational learning app. Energetic Alpha connects to the internet to stream videos as the child plays​ but can be used offline without video content when needed.  No in-app purchases are required!