Pocket Wally Sight Words is a great educational app for the iPhone that’s aim is to help teach kids sight words. The way it works is this: you’re shown a word, it’s read out loud, then you swipe across to see and hear the word in a sentence and you are supposed to find and touch the word. The options let you choose which level of sight words to play with: Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, First, Second or Third grades. After a number of times of finding the word in the sentence you get to pick a prize/sticker and add it to your collection.
I sat with Zach and helped explain to him what he needed to do. (I think this is the one area where this game could improve – if the child doesn’t do anything after a certain amount of time, the game should have a voice-over with an explanation of what they need to do) – but sitting with him and explaining it to him worked and after a while he got the idea of how to play. He had a lot of fun with it and got so excited when he found the word(s) and was then able to pick out prizes. I think the way the game works is an excellent way of teaching kids sight words and making it fun.
To learn more about Pocket Wally Sight Words, check out their website where you can see a video/demo of the game: www.pocketwally.com
Pocket Wally Sight Words: $0.99*
*price at time of this writing.
Related Posts
- Word Cub – Educational iPhone Game for Kids: Word Cub may very well be the best educational game...
- Little Cook – iPhone Game For Kids: My kids are always asking to help out when I...
- Count Caddy – iPhone Counting Game for Kids: Count Caddy helps teach kids numbers and their values. It...
- iMoo – iPhone Application for Kids: Do you remember those “moo boxes”? For those who can’t...
- Sound Shaker – iPhone Music Game for Kids: Sound Shaker is such a cute app that will surely...
