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Word Wizard for Kids School Ed
Learn to Read & Spelling Tests
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UK Voice included!
Word Wizard is an award-winning app used in schools that offers several unique reading and spelling activities for children ages four to 10.
--Learn to Read by Building Words --
• The Talking Movable Alphabet activity allows kids to experiment with word building and phonics thanks to the advanced text to speech engine (the first step in learning to read)
• Any text can be written and spoken
• 2 child voices + 5 adult voices (US, UK & Australian voices)
• Uppercase & lowercase letters, numbers, digraphs, ABC or QWERTY keyboard
• Many settings to adapt the activities to the child’s needs (letter size, assign images to words, high contrast modes for kids with visual impairment,...)
-- Learn to Spell using the Talking Movable Alphabet and your word lists --
• 3 spelling activities that increase in difficulty
• 200 built-in word lists (about 2000 words)
• Add your own words to create unique spelling quizzes!
• Add your own images to illustrate your word lists
• Keep tabs on your children’s progress with detailed reports
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• Used in Schools (140K units sold to schools)
• "This is an important breakthrough in reading instruction" - The New York Times
• "This is a fantastic app for young children, right through to children in later elementary school " - Wired's GeekDad
• Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design - Children's Technology Review
• Winner of a Parents’ Choice Award
• More than 290K units sold!
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Talking Movable Alphabet Activity
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• Pronounce and spell-check any word, number or sentence
• Natural Sounding Voice - three American voices, one British voice, and one Australian voice
• Letter sound (phonic) or name when a letter is touched in the alphabet
• Alphabetic or QWERTY layout, letters, numbers, consonant digraphs (like “th”) and vowels digraphs (like “oo”)
• Uppercase or lowercase letters
• Keyboard emulation option
• 4 letter sizes available (allowing for more or fewer letters on the board)
• Customized word pronunciation, if necessary
• Accessibility: external keyboard support and 4 high contrast modes available
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Fun Spelling Activities
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3 spelling activities of increasing difficulty are provided to adapt the activity to the child’s spelling level. You can use the built-in word lists or create your own.
1 - "Word Practice" says and displays the word to spell, and asks the child to spell it using the talking movable alphabet
2 - "Scrambled Letters" says the word and displays the letters needed to build the word or sentence, and asks the child to reorder the letters.
3 - “Spelling Quizzes” is a standard spelling test. The app won’t move onto the next word until the child has correctly spelled the word, helping them to remember its correct spelling.
• 200 built-in word lists: Words for beginners, Dolch Words, 1,000 most frequently used words, body parts and more
• Create custom Word Lists by entering your own words and sentences
• Import and export Word Lists you’ve created
• Hints are available should kids not know how to spell a word
• Colorful animations are displayed when a word is completed
• Once a quiz is completed, interactive animations are available as a reward
-- Users & Reports --
• Unlimited number of users
• Detailed Spelling Test Reports per user (can be exported in PDF)
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More Accolades
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• The New York Times
"This is an important breakthrough in reading instruction because it leverages the iPad’s size, powerful speech synthesis abilities, and touchscreen so that every letter can be a building block of phonetically accurate sound"
• Children's Technology Review
Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design - 4.8 stars out of 5 - "Turn your iPad into a talking alphabet/language generator - and the perfect tool for a child just starting to experiment with letters and their sounds"
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Please send any feedback or suggestions to [email protected]
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Word Wizard is an award-winning app used in schools that offers several unique reading and spelling activities for children ages four to 10.
--Learn to Read by Building Words --
• The Talking Movable Alphabet activity allows kids to experiment with word building and phonics thanks to the advanced text to speech engine (the first step in learning to read)
• Any text can be written and spoken
• 2 child voices + 5 adult voices (US, UK & Australian voices)
• Uppercase & lowercase letters, numbers, digraphs, ABC or QWERTY keyboard
• Many settings to adapt the activities to the child’s needs (letter size, assign images to words, high contrast modes for kids with visual impairment,...)
-- Learn to Spell using the Talking Movable Alphabet and your word lists --
• 3 spelling activities that increase in difficulty
• 200 built-in word lists (about 2000 words)
• Add your own words to create unique spelling quizzes!
• Add your own images to illustrate your word lists
• Keep tabs on your children’s progress with detailed reports
_______
• Used in Schools (140K units sold to schools)
• "This is an important breakthrough in reading instruction" - The New York Times
• "This is a fantastic app for young children, right through to children in later elementary school " - Wired's GeekDad
• Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design - Children's Technology Review
• Winner of a Parents’ Choice Award
• More than 290K units sold!
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Talking Movable Alphabet Activity
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• Pronounce and spell-check any word, number or sentence
• Natural Sounding Voice - three American voices, one British voice, and one Australian voice
• Letter sound (phonic) or name when a letter is touched in the alphabet
• Alphabetic or QWERTY layout, letters, numbers, consonant digraphs (like “th”) and vowels digraphs (like “oo”)
• Uppercase or lowercase letters
• Keyboard emulation option
• 4 letter sizes available (allowing for more or fewer letters on the board)
• Customized word pronunciation, if necessary
• Accessibility: external keyboard support and 4 high contrast modes available
_______
Fun Spelling Activities
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3 spelling activities of increasing difficulty are provided to adapt the activity to the child’s spelling level. You can use the built-in word lists or create your own.
1 - "Word Practice" says and displays the word to spell, and asks the child to spell it using the talking movable alphabet
2 - "Scrambled Letters" says the word and displays the letters needed to build the word or sentence, and asks the child to reorder the letters.
3 - “Spelling Quizzes” is a standard spelling test. The app won’t move onto the next word until the child has correctly spelled the word, helping them to remember its correct spelling.
• 200 built-in word lists: Words for beginners, Dolch Words, 1,000 most frequently used words, body parts and more
• Create custom Word Lists by entering your own words and sentences
• Import and export Word Lists you’ve created
• Hints are available should kids not know how to spell a word
• Colorful animations are displayed when a word is completed
• Once a quiz is completed, interactive animations are available as a reward
-- Users & Reports --
• Unlimited number of users
• Detailed Spelling Test Reports per user (can be exported in PDF)
_______
More Accolades
_______
• The New York Times
"This is an important breakthrough in reading instruction because it leverages the iPad’s size, powerful speech synthesis abilities, and touchscreen so that every letter can be a building block of phonetically accurate sound"
• Children's Technology Review
Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design - 4.8 stars out of 5 - "Turn your iPad into a talking alphabet/language generator - and the perfect tool for a child just starting to experiment with letters and their sounds"
________
Please send any feedback or suggestions to [email protected]
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Excellent app for simple communication
This is a very useful app for teaching and learning words and simple phrases. My three year old grandaughter who is learning to read and write can chat with her uncle who is profoundly deaf, he can not speak or hear the app but can read and write to her and she can pick up on the voices. She is also using to to talk! to her dolls and other toys, and more recently with her friends. The keyboard and display can be varied as required ie qwerty, Alphabetic, upper or lower case and mixed. Well worth the money in fact a bargain even at a higher price. What looked like an interesting gimmick has turned out to be a valuable tool for teaching. It is refreshing that it is not laden with exhortations to spend money on neccessary improvements. As it stands it is probably the best app I have bought so far and the developers are to be congratulated and thanked. Possible improvements would be the addition of numbers . If the app vould be linked with itunes or similar to display with apple tv on larger screen it would be a great bonus for more than two people to use at same time Added comment 31st october 2012 The app has been upgraded now with numbers and a new male voice, and is even better than before. The includion of simple arithmetic would be a bonus particularly since the numbers are clearly pronounced. A possible improvement would be the includion af a child or juvenile voice, preferably uk standard english Added comment may 2015 This app has been improved so that it no longer can be updated on my grandaughters ipad. Since the ipad is first generation it is not vompatible with ios 7 or later. This is very disappointing since a later ipad is too expensive. While the original app still works she is upset that it is not the same as her friends version, and at five and a half years old summed up the the latest change as the work of a silly man. I mudt admit I have to agree with her.
Good
Good app, contains high frequency words and allows you to create your own spelling tests. Can change voice from u.s to uk.
Fantastic app
This app has been invaluable helping my son with his weekly spelling test. We input the list, have adjusted the voice to English uk phonics and we try and do it every day. The basic word lists provided are excellent too as a start and would recommend this app to all.
Great for spelling homework
My children (7 & 5) love doing their spelling homework with this app. We tend to use our own lists rather than the built in ones. Our eldest also enjoys making up sentences to then play back. Good fun all round.
Word Wizard
saw this app in the iPad kids magazine, but tried others word apps. Then came back to this one. I wish I just gone straight to this, it's a lovely app! Currently using it for my son's spelling list, which is great, because he gets to play on my iPad, but I don't have to battle with him to do his spellings!!! My daughter, who is pre-school just likes making silly words with this too! Thanks
Teaching tool
I love this app, it's great for helping with auditory processing and can be used many ways to learn how well a student is learning phonics. The placing of letters in defined spaces helps children to structure simple sentences. I use it a lot for informal assessment in my work with children with speech and language difficulties.
Very complicated for a 40 year it engineer
It is so complicated to use that it is not usable. Navigation is poor and most importantly as far as words and phonics which are key - does not have audio support.
Good but needs work
Lots of fantastic spellings to work through, though some are poorly recorded and so difficult to decipher. Not just American accent but some words don't sound enough like the word to be spelled to avoid confusion. This has stopped me using app with students.
Word wizard is great
Really pleased with this app! We enter a spelling list of our own each week being school homework and 3 weeks down the line it has made spelling learning much more fun than pen and paper for our 9 year old. As a parent i like to have an educational app on iPhone too for car journeys etc rather than just games.
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App Info
- Category
- Education
- Publisher
- Pierre Abel
- Languages
- English
- Recent version
- 6.4.6 (1 year ago )
- Released on
- Jul 21, 2011 (13 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Japan, China, France, Taiwan, Ireland, Sweden, India, Italy, Germany, Kuwait, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea, South Africa, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Austria, Spain, Ecuador, Switzerland, Belgium, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Chile, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Brazil, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Vietnam, Argentina, Philippines, Hungary, Colombia, Norway, Netherlands, Nigeria, Czechia, Denmark, Lebanon, Kazakhstan, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Finland, Greece
- Last updated
- 6 days ago