Aurora Pack, 2nd ed.

Title: Aurora Pack, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: Level 1: Pre-Emerging
Release Date: 03/15/25
Type: Reading Academy Pack
Brand: Albert Whitman,Baby Einstein,Dreamscape Media: Flowerpot Press,FarFaria,Highlights
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: Pre-K

Launchpad Description: This 5-level guided reading system helps kids master verbal, reading, and writing skills - starting at any level. Every app, storybook, and video has been hand-selected to help kids gain the knowledge they need to transition from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn.

Pre-Emerging packs are ideal for readers who have reached the following milestones:
- Forms 3 to 4 word sentences
- Can talk and carry on conversations
- Continues to grow vocabulary
- Listens to stories, simple songs, and nursery rhymes
- Recognizes letters
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Baby Einstein: Nature's sounds (app)
Play music and learn sounds with Natures Sounds.

Beck and Bo by Avokiddo (App)
Beck and Bo is a fun educational app that is sure to engage your little kids in a creative way, while helping them build their early vocabulary. Follow the amazing adventures of Beck and Bo as they go on a train trip with their beloved dog, swim in the ocean with a giant whale, go on safari and run into noisy gorillas, win prizes at the theme park and do a whole lot of exciting activities! Kids are invited to build beautiful, animated scenes by dragging and dropping objects, animals and props to their proper place; and while they do that, they listen to their names and sounds! Piece by piece they bring to life colorful and fascinating scenes, full of sounds, animations and fun interactive activities. Kids will love putting the dog on the trampoline, watering the flowers in the backyard, picking apples from the apple tree, controlling the traffic in the city center and discovering all the interactive objects within a scene. When all objects have been correctly placed and tasks have be

Learn-A-Licious Preschool (App)
Looking for an easier way to build your child’s language skills? Try the Learn-A-Licious app. Learn-A-Licious is an interactive word flashcard game for preschoolers. Words (Level 1) helps children build a strong word vocabulary in a fun, interactive game environment. Phonics (Level 2) takes the learning one step further by requiring that both pictures and the starting sound of the pictures be identified. This app features a combination of fun game graphics and crystal clear photos. Choose from twelve different game categories: animals, more animals, preschool, nature, tools, transportation, vegetables, positions, movement, music, shapes and sports. For phonics, choose the starting letter. Select the correct picture from four (or two, if four is too difficult) flashcard images. A narrator expresses appreciation for your response whether it is correct or not, with stars awarded at the end of each game to recognize your achievements.

Montessori Words (App)
Based on the proven Montessori learning method, Montessori Words helps kids develop their reading, writing and spelling skills by building words from a set of 320 word-image-audio-phonics combinations using a phonics-enabled Movable Alphabet. ?Top 50 Android Apps For Kids 2013 - SmartAppsForAndroid.com ?The iPad/iPhone version was mentioned in the New York Times, Wired's GeekDad, and was awarded "Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design" by Children Technology Review. ? Used in US schools Common Core State Standard (CCSS): CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.1b Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2 & CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.1.2 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. Montessori Words helps kids learn and understand two fundamental concepts: • First, the app

Storybook Animations: Grace Says Hello (App)
Grace goes to the zoo for the first time and says hello to all the animals.

Storybook Animations: Grumps (App)
A prince is relieved of his 'grumps' when children come to play.

Storybook Animations: Happy Birthday (App)
Ana celebrates her fifth birthday and her friends all take turns trying to break the pinata.

Storybook Animations: Hello, Winter! (App)
A little boy greets his surroundings during an afternoon outside.

This Raindrop (app)
Learn more about the importance of water conservation and the water cycle in this book that focuses on a single raindrop that has billions of stories to tell.

Vowel Sounds: Long O (App)
Early readers learn new words for their reading adventure! Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and a standards-aligned reading level, independently measured using the Lexile framework.

Vowel Sounds: Short O (App)
Early readers learn new words for their reading adventure! Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and a standards-aligned reading level, independently measured using the Lexile framework.

Winter Cats (app)
Willy's an indoor cat, but one snowy day he finds out how much fun he can have OUTSIDE!