SmartySprouts vs Times Alive

Do you love classroom Pocket Charts? Pocket Charts! Pro combines 21 pocket chart activities for your child to use on the iPad. Just like the pocket chart games popular in the classroom, this app gives young students a fun way to practice adding and subtracting, sorting blends and digraphs, matching positional words to picture, spelling 3 letter words, combining images to build compound words. The youngest iPad users are not left out, some early learning activities include counting, sorting, matching colors, shapes and uppercase to lowercase letters. Administrative features allow teachers/parents to manage the functionality of the app and track student progress. Pocket Charts! Pro gives kids a lot of learning fun for a very small price. Here’s what’s included: • Upper and Lowercase Letter Matching • Beginning Letter Sounds • Colors and Color Words • Counting • Shape Matching • Long and Short Vowel Sounds • Rhyming Words • Consonant Blends and Digraphs • Ending Letter Sounds • Position Words • Numbers and Number Words • Pre-Number Category Sorting • Compound Words • Spelling 3-Letter Words • Word Families • Fractions • Single-digit Addition and Subtraction • Halloween Match • Thanksgiving Match • Christmas/Hanukkah Match • Egg Match Teach and reinforce basic skills with Pocket Charts! Pro. Each game requires 3-5 minutes for a young learner to complete, making this iPad app ideal for students with limited attention spans or those requiring highly visual or tactile learning experiences. Additionally, these activities are designed to lock and play only in the portrait mode in order to simplify game play and eliminate an orientation switch if young learners jostle the iPad while playing. Good Neighbor Press has specialized in the development, illustration, design and production of educational material since 1991. High quality, developmentally-appropriate educational material with clean, charming instructional design is our specialty! For additional information on our activity book series, downloadable worksheet units, or free downloadable worksheets please visit www.goodneighborpress.com. Look for all our Early Childhood iPad Apps by searching Good Neighbor Press in the App Store.

Times Alive is designed to make memorization easy and fun so students are eager to learn. Award winning Times Alive teaches multiplication with story videos and songs — includes quizzes and games to teach ALL the times tables 0s-9s. Shown helpful for students with dyslexia, adhd, dyscalculia, autism, and other learning differences. Times Alive keeps track of the student's progress showing completed lessons, test scores with time elapsed. Easily clear progress to re-take a test or to start a new student. Multiplication pretest and post-test included to monitor progress and facts learned. Studies show our Times Tables the Fun Way(™) picture, story, and songs program outperforms most methods for effectiveness and retention of the multiplication facts. Once the facts are committed to memory students find math class a breeze and are able to move on to ratios, division, and algebra.Times Alive is based on the widely used and award winning book, Times Tables the Fun Way. Provided by City Creek Press, established in 1992. Check out our youtube channel @timestablesthefunway. Try Online Times Alive for multiple student tracking, free trial found at CityCreek.com.