Satellite Pack, 2nd ed.

Title: Satellite Pack, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: Level 4: Developing
Release Date: 04/15/25
Type: Reading Academy Pack
Brand: Albert Whitman,FarFaria,HOMER,eKidz.eu
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: 2nd Grade

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.

Developing packs are ideal for readers who have reached the following milestones:
- Can recount a story with descriptive detail
- Asks for clarification when needed
- Starting to decode unknown long vowel words
- Reads text with accuracy
- Writes using a topic
- Will spell more complex, long vowel words
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

All About Sailing (App)
Come sailing with us, and see what it's like to be out on the ocean! Speakaboos’ parent app, HOMER, is a proven early learning program that builds personalized learning plans for children ages 2-8 - complete with this story and others like this!

Articles for Kids (App)
Helps your child practice English Article. A fun and educational app for kids in 1st Grade and above. The app helps in improving English Grammar and English vocabulary.

Basic Phonics 1 (App)
This app is intended to create phonemic awareness and to teach young readers how to read with synthetic phonics. Its simple and child-friendly interface offers young learners an engaging way to master the essential skills of phonics: phonemic awareness, letter-sound relationship, blending and segmenting. 8 lessons have been designed for this fun-filled app to guide young readers to read in a systematic way. These lessons are: Lesson 1: s, a, t, p Lesson 2: i, n, m, d Lesson 3: g, o, c, k Lesson 4: ck, e, u, r Lesson 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss Lesson 6: j, v, w, x Lesson 7: y, z, zz, qu Lesson 8: Mnemonic Aa-Zz, , Writing Aa-Zz Lesson 8 is specially designed to teach children to read and write the letters Aa to Zz with the mnemonic techniques. It is a visual tool that uses a picture-word association to provide a memory bridge for children to remember sounds and letters. Learning objectives: At the end of the lesson, children will be able to: • differentiate the s

Case of the Icky Ice Cream, The (app)
Detective Paw stops an ice cream sabotage in this police-procedural early reader.

CC 2nd Grade Reading - Sight Words - Volume 1 (App)
This first in a series of Common Core programs teaches the sight words covered in weeks 1 through 9 of 2nd Grade, where kids learn words such as "laugh," "together," "never," "about," "myself," etc.  Join young host Marisa, who explains what sight words are, and enthusiastically presents each word, sounds it out slowly, and uses it in a simple sentence with on-screen graphics and illustrations that reinforce the use of the particular sight word. 

Know It Alls! Apes! (App)
As part of the unique, science Know-It-Alls! Series that features stunning graphics and engaging text, this video puts the spotlight on Apes! Did you know that orangutans spend most of their lives in trees? They are the slowest-moving apes. Big males sometimes have to travel on the ground because the tree branches can’t support them. Children will learn about the gorilla, chimpanzee, orangutan, bonobo, and gibbon. Awesome life-like illustrations and informative stat boxes filled with interesting facts make this 24-page book fun and exciting for young science enthusiasts age 4 and up!

Night Boy (App)
The main character Night plays a game of hide-and-seek with his sister, Day, and explores space. Speakaboos’ parent app, HOMER, is a proven early learning program that builds personalized learning plans for children ages 2-8 - complete with this story and others like this!

Phonics - 101 (App)
English101 Phonics 1 focus on spelling and pronunciation of words. Each category has 3 levels based on the fact that repetition leads to perfection and success. It has no volume but 5 categories. -One uniform scoreboard for all the categories in the home section. For every category played, the score is counted under one scoreboard -With every correct answer, you earn 500 points -A report card which is a powerful feature that displays skill, accuracy and score. -Time report shows time played and time spent in a day. This way parents can keep track of their kids’ activities -There is an achievement section that displays your highest score, and once every level is completed you unlock a badge. The badge is a sign of achievemen

Prefixes for Kids (App)
Helps your child practice English prefixes. A fun and educational app for kids in 1st Grade and above. The app helps in improving English Grammar and English vocabulary.

The Reluctant Dragon (App)
It's a good thing Gabriel knows a lot about dragons, because a great big dragon has just moved in! FarFaria's "The Reluctant Dragon" is designed to provide children with a perfect story time experience. Like every FarFaria ebook, this title includes professional audio narration with word highlighting and the Common Core Reading Level, independently measured using the Lexile Framework.

The Story of Flying Robert (App)
Developing; fable, fiction narrative in poetry form. Theme of weather and obedience in rhyming couplets. Uses commas to separate clauses, apostrophe of contraction and possession, exclamation and full stops. Primarily in present simple with present progressive/continuous verb use.

Word Farm (App)
Escape to the World of Farming with Word Farm! Word Farm Game is so simple and easy to play! Just swipe the letters to find the hidden words and collect bonus coins! Word crops need help to come to life! Unlike crossword, word search, or other word guess games; Word Farm is an utterly new word game that will challenge the imagination and skills. This will expand any vocabulary!