Ollie's Handwriting & Phonics for iPad for iOS

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Ollies Handwriting and Phonics helps kids become successful readers with errorless teaching! Children practice letters and sounds, read custom...

Ollies Handwriting and Phonics helps kids become successful readers with errorless teaching! Children practice letters and sounds, read custom phonics words, and spell sight words without reinforcing bad habits. Created by a Kindergarten teacher with a Masters in Early Childhood Education, Ollie is based on the most successful research-based national handwriting and phonics programs.Featured as a top Classroom Learning App by Rasmussen College.Ollie helps children improve fine motor and handwriting skills as well as introduce, reinforce, and solidify letter and sound recognition. Kids have fun with colored chalk on a blackboard with chalk sound effects!TRY OLLIE FOR FREE WANT MORE? UPGRADE TO UNLOCK THE ENTIRE APP FOR ONLY $2.99HOW IT WORKS:Kids learn with Ollie to recognize letters and their corresponding sounds. They practice handwriting and reinforce phonics skills by tracing capital and lowercase letters and spelling and reading phonics and sight words.CAPITAL & LOWERCASE LETTERS: Ollie shows the letter shape, name, sound, and corresponding phonics picture (P is for Pirate!).PHONICS WORDS: Ollie shows how to separate and put together sounds to read and spell words with accompanying graphics (c...a....t.... cat!).SIGHT WORDS: Ollie shows how to read and spell sight words (the, to, and).MY WORDS: Easily add your own custom words to practice handwriting, reading and spelling - unlimited ability to delete and change words to suit your interests and needs.FEATURES:errorless teaching prevents kids from reinforcing bad habitsall letters are practiced in traditional handwriting linesuses multi-sensory techniques (sight, sound & touch) to enhance cognitionvisual demonstration (by Ollie the Owl) of how to form letters for all 52 letters (capitals + lowercase)sleek, engaging, kid-friendly graphics for each letter of the alphabet and phonics wordaudio on every page to reinforce letter names and their corresponding soundscolored chalk on blackboard with chalk sound effects to mimic real life practicephonics words sounded out letter by letter by Ollie to reinforce beginning reading skillssight words (high-frequency & irregular words) to handwrite and spelladd custom words up to 5 letters long (your childs name/nickname!) to practice handwriting & spellingcustomizable settings to adjust for level of difficulty (tracing outline on or off)A TOOL FOR PARENTS, TEACHERS & THERAPISTSOllies Handwriting and Phonics was created as a portable, accessible, and affordable way to put the best literacy research and tools into the hands of supporting adults who want to help children develop and master the building blocks of becoming successful readers and writers.WHATS FREE?Capital letters A MLowercase letters a m2 Phonics Words: bug, cat2 Sight Words: the, to1 My Word (customizable word you choose!)UPGRADE TO THE FULL VERSION TO GET MORE:One In-App Purchase of only $2.99 to getAll Capital letters A ZAll Lowercase letters a zAll 10 Phonics Words: bug, cat, dog, fin, fox, jet, map, pig, sun, webAll 10 Sight Words: the, to, and, is, can, see, my, go, you, weAll 10 My Words (unlimited ability to delete and edit words)Download free materials such as the Ollie App Companion Guide (lesson ideas & examples) and Teacher / Student Checklist (record keeping & accountability for individual therapists or classroom teachers) at www.BLUEMANGOLLC.com.Check out www.BLUEMANGOLLC.com to read the free Companion Guide for Parents, Teachers and Therapists and get information, links and downloadable PDFs on literacy in early childhood, lesson ideas and literacy materials. Sign up for our newsletter to get more free materials and the latest updates on Ollie Apps!