Montessorium: Intro to Letters

Will reject input instantly it leaves prescribed path and will only allow input to restart at a specified point - the location of which is unclear. If you want to put a child off and build their insecurity around letters then this is the App for you. Aside from that, it's overpriced for the features it offers. Pocketphonic looks amateur, but is far more child-friendly.

This is a good app but have seen two points of improving this from five mins of having it 1. Support for iPhone 5 2. In the transition from lower case to upper case letters, instead of just letting it hang on the screen with no functions apart from swipe to the next letter. How about sounding the letters when they are tapped so the little ones can see the letter and interact with the sounds. Also and this is maybe taking it too far but there's a chance you could put a pinch on each to have a go at drawing the letter from that screen to put that could just be putting too much function on one screen taking away the simplicity.

This is a really good app, and a huge relief that it isn't just American, and most letters sound ok. However, I have one request for a change and it seems an obvious requirement. On the "random" choice setting, the child is shown how to trace the letter properly, ie the entire route to produce the letter correctly, but on the "ordered" choice, only the starting point is shown - why not the whole route? Perhaps this level of instruction to the child could be user-controlled in a settings section, so that it could be turned on when the child is first learning and off when they are more proficient.

A great app for teaching phonics. Very impressed that you have the option to have a uk english speaker. One negative point though is that some of the phonemes are not pronounced correctly e.g. d is pronounced as "deh" rather than a short "d", and "teh" rather than a short "t". Unfortunately this will mean children having to re-learn those sounds at school.

Beautiful to look at, but clunky and restrictive in use. (Relatively) patient iPad loving three year old tired of it very quickly.

Where is the encouragement? My son tired of this quickly, it is very dry. Overall disappointed.

This app is fantastic. My 3 year old chooses this app every time he goes on my iPad, and within a week of using it he can recognise half the letters. It's great how you are shown the right way to write the letters too. The only thing I'd add would be the ability to add your childs name so they can learn to write/ recognise it.

My boy is four and a half and is really excelling with this app. He has the tracing down pat and thinks the record and replay feature is hysterical. All in all, the app encourages him to practice his letters more, so we are all loving it. He is already attending a Montessori nursery, so he leapt right in with the tracing and sounding method used within the app. I would love to see a function where you can select the letters you want (or even pre-determine a word for them to write).

This is brilliant! My 4 year old can do this on her own as really feels she is achieving each time she completes a page. As she goes to a Montesorri pre-school it compliments her current style of learning. Buy this app if you are looking to help your child read.