Sight Word Balloons vs Magic Phonics

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 app works with "Magic Phonics", an educative tool made of connected wooden blocks. Magic Phonics introduces grapheme-phoneme correspondence leading to reading skills. The learning process is based on the official UK curriculum and the app has been developed with education experts. It can be used with native and non-native children to learn reading in English. This app contains: - 18 sequences to learn phonics step by step - 150 words to work with - Learning activities to develop phonemic awareness, enrich vocabulary, build the fundamentals of writing and reading.