BCPS Connect vs Flash Words

Presenting BCPS Connect, the official one-stop-shop app for parents, guardians, and students of Broward County Public Schools (BCPS). Our carefully designed Student and Parent portals ensure that you stay involved and up-to-date with your student’s education. Effortlessly access key information such as enrollment status, schedules, attendance, grades, assignments, calendars, news, events, school and district social media feeds, class resources, forms, alerts, and messages—all in a single, user-friendly platform. BCPS Connect keeps you informed about essential updates and deadlines through real-time notifications and messages sent directly to your device. Support your student’s educational growth and remain connected to the BCPS community by downloading BCPS Connect. Now available on the Apple App Store.

Practise sight words, spelling lists and tricky words with simple, distraction-free flash cards. Free, ad-free and private. No account required and no data collected. Flash Words helps children build reading confidence through short, focused practice. Parents and teachers can create custom word lists based on schoolwork, homework or each child’s individual needs. Children can hear each word spoken aloud, reveal the answer when they are ready and mark whether they got it right. Words that need more practice are automatically repeated, helping children improve without distracting games, advertisements or overstimulation. Features • Create unlimited custom word lists • Use ready-made common word lists • Hear every word spoken aloud • Reveal each word when the child is ready • Mark each answer as correct or try again • Automatically repeat difficult words • Continue where you left off • Track progress across each word list • Change the background theme • Use the app offline • No advertisements • No account required Flash Words can be used for: • Sight words and high-frequency words • Weekly spelling lists • Phonics and early reading practice • Homework and classroom activities • Homeschooling • Learning support • Speech and language practice Designed for beginning readers in Kindergarten, Prep, Year 1 and Year 2. Short, regular practice helps children become more familiar and confident with the words they are learning.