Sight Word Balloons vs Sentence Maker App

Want a switch-accessible app that helps teach and reinforce how to speak, read and spell words, all while playing a game? Crazy Balloons Words is an engaging, fun activity that will do just that! Crazy Balloons Words was designed with input from kids, parents, teachers and therapists as a way for children to learn, and practice recognizing, high-frequency words - all while playing a balloon-popping game that’s easy to learn but also a challenge. Why Crazy Balloons Words? PKCLsoft creates apps that are affordable, educational, engaging and accessible - because all children deserve to learn and become proficient communicators and readers. The benefits of playing Crazy Balloons Words include: • Sight word recognition skills increase • Increased proficiency and fluency in reading • Lots of audio processing practice • Game play requires the player utilize visual scanning and visual discrimination skills Educators will love being able to read a detailed report on each game a student plays and Crazy Balloons Words is also fully customizable: • Create your own word lists, and share them via eMail, Messages or Airdrop. • The app supports iOS 7’s localization features for both language and voices. Create word lists in other languages! • Set up a profile for each player and tailor the game play to suit each child’s strengths and challenges. • Easily turn sounds and music on or off. • Select the speed of play, how many balloons appear on screen and how many questions there are per game. • Want to focus specifically on sight reading skills? Turn off the audible prompts! • You can adjust the pitch and speed of the audible prompts used. • Or make the game more challenging by hiding audible and/or visual cues and turning off hints. • The game can be played with a compatible switch interface or bluetooth keyboard and switch settings can also be customized. PKCLsoft takes children’s privacy seriously. Our apps have: • a parental gate so children cannot access links outside the app • no ads • no tools for collecting or analysing user data • no social media sharing • no in-app purchases For detailed information on our privacy policy, visit http://www.pkclsoft.com/wp/privacy ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– KNOW WHAT'S INSIDE As a Know What's Inside member, we follow the "Know what's inside" best practices for kids' apps ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– At PKCLsoft we value your feedback so please email any comments or questions about Crazy Balloons Words to info@pkclsoft.com

This program teaches students to make words from letters and then to make sentences from words. The student first sees the letters of a word in their correct order. The student then moves the letters into spaces provided to form the word. The student next sees the letters “scrambled,” i.e. in random disorder. The student then puts the letters in order in the spaces provided to form the word. After that, the student sees scrambled letters with distracters, and must choose correct letter in the correct order to make the word. This program contains 24 chapters. Subject This program uses five items to teach words and sentence formation. These are Boy, Girl, Ball, Cup, and Dog. Click on the subject to use in the “Sentence Maker” program. Introduction This program always begins with the Introduction Screen. The Introduction Screen shows the subject(s) (Boy, Girl, Ball, Cup, or Dog) that will be used in the chapter and indicates what activity will be followed in this chapter.