The Reading Game – iPhone App

TGo download it and check it out! Here’s some info sent to me by the developer:

First of its Kind: Rewards and Tracking as Kids Read Their Books

Parents Can Give Their Child the Gift of Reading

Just in time for summer reading assignments! The Reading Game makes reading books more exciting and fun than ever before. With over 100 rewards to unlock, this game transforms daily reading into kids’ favorite thing. It is simple and easy to use.

Students are already hooked on technology. Now they can harness that energy to prevent the summer slide that causes them to shed their academic skills. This new game encourages students to read every day, to track their reading and be rewarded every time they read.

This app was designed to sustain and improve youngsters’ academic skills. The Reading Game provides the incentive to read more books and receive immediate rewards.

Using The Reading Game, kids can unlock special characters such as the parachuting squirrel, the cute puppy, the weight-lifting robot, the guitar-playing penguin, the surfing alien, and the water-skiing mouse. After they enter the names and total pages of their books, The Reading Game keeps track of the pages they have read and unlocks their rewards. There are over 100 appealing sound effects and songs to unlock as the user reads. While viewing their rewards, users can shake and tilt their phones or iPads to create wild sound effects.

Features:
• Offers over 100 animations.
• Offers over 100 sounds and songs.
• Responds to shaking and tilting with original sounds from the sound rewards.
• Calculates how many pages are left to read.
• Displays the percentage of the book that has been completed.
• Keeps track of the reader’s current page like a bookmark.
• Tracks reading progress with as many books as the user likes.

You can find more info and videos on their site here.

The Reading Game: FREE!*

*Price at time of this post.

Faces iMake iPhone App

Fcheck out their website. Or you can watch a video that demonstrates the app.

Faces iMake: $0.99*

*Price at time of this writing

Wacky Chatter iPhone App Game

WWacky Chatter: $0.99*

*Price at time of this writing.

Dr.Seuss Earth Day iPhone Apps

I‘ve already posted a review of The Lorax and Lorax Garden, but in honor of Earth Day thought I’d mention again how great these two are. They actually compliment each other really well. I particularly like the narration in The Lorax. It’s really well done. In general, I love Dr. Seuss books, but there is definitely a “downer” aspect to The Lorax story. The Once-ler destroys everything and leaves it up to YOU to clean it all up, or else nothing is going to get better. But the Lorax Garden iPhone app game is a pefect follow up to the story, as it picks up where the book left off and has you planting Traffula trees and flowers and rebuilding the forests. It’s definitely fun to have both of these two together.

Here again are the links if you’d like to check them out:

The Lorax eBook: $3.99

The Lorax Garden: $2.99

Happy Earth Day!

Gwen’s Picnic – Memory/Match iPhone Game

GBright Bunny, is a cute food-based memory/match type game. Match up the pictures of the food and watch Gwen eat the food you found. (There is a food picture for every letter in the alphabet). The game can be played with the cards face up for younger kids, or face down for more of a challenge. There are also flash cards that help teach the names of each of the foods.

Zach loves playing memory games so variations are always fun and he liked finding the different types of foods on the cards.

Watch a video of the game here.

Gwen’s Picnic: $1.99*

*Price at the time of this writing