學前語文秘笈 vs SAHK 香港耀能協會

"Early Literacy" provides different levels of activities to help young children learn Chinese effectively by mastering the literacy-related cognitive and perceptual skills. The app is developed by SAHK professional team. The content is evidence-based and context-based. Characters are chosen from the local curriculum. There are videos and interesting games to enhance children’s learning motivation. This upgraded app provides new functions including Augmented Reality (AR) game, dashboard for viewing learning progress, upload & download game data backup. Time limit setting is also available. The app can be used together with “SAHK Early Literacy Learning Package 2” to make learning more comprehensive. Target population: 1. K1-K3 children 2. Older children with K1-K3 learning level Content and characteristics: There are 6 themes in the app, each theme has 4 parts: 1. Tutorial videos - Theme story: Help children learn to use the targeted Chinese characters in daily communication - Videos on story comprehension (basic & advance levels) and nursery rhyme reading: Facilitate listening, speaking & reading skills development 2. Interactive literacy games Children have to open the 8 basic games (K1-K2 level) before they can enter the advance games (K2-K3 level). Training targets and games distribution: i. Oculomotor control & visual perception － Basic games 【Swift Eyes and Hands】 【Running Balloon】 【Look and Find】 【Checkers】 － Advance games 【Locomotive】 【Line Chaser】 【Treasure Hunting】 【Hide and Seek】 ii. Orthography-phonology-semantic mapping (Basic game only) 【Voice Recording Fairy】 iii. Phonological awareness － Basic games 【Shake Shake Word Bowling】 【Miracle Speakers】 － Advance game 【Monster of Word Eating】 iv. Morphological awareness (Advance game only) 【Wonderful Fish】 【Monster of Word Creation】 【Vocabulary Magician】 v. Orthographic awareness (Advance game only) 【Gluttonous Dino】 【Parachute Jump】 vi. Pre-writing & writing skills － Basic game 【Happy Bus】 － Advance games 【Stroke Order Board】 【Character Structure Pairing】 【Family of Logographmes】 3. Mysterious reward The mysterious clearance reward system motivate children play different games repeatedly to enhance learning effectiveness. Facebook sharing and photo taking functions are also provided. 4. AR game By using specific single-word cards to build target vocabulary, related animation and pronunciation will appear after scanning! Through AR game, young children can integrate and apply different early literacy skills.

SAHK bridges the School, Parents, Teachers and Students with our iPhone application and online platform. We aim to strengthen communication between parents and teachers and minimise administrative works. 香港耀能協會通過手機應用程式及網上平台，在校園建立一個嶄新溝通橋樑，連繫學校、家長、教師和學生。目的是加強校園信息流通，分享子女校園生活點滴；減少教職員行政工作，行政管理無紙化等。