Stories and Sounds!

Title: Stories and Sounds!
Subtitle: English Language Arts - Ages 3-5, Pre-K to K
Release Date: 05/01/19
Type: Launchpad Pack
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: Pre-K, Kindergarten

Launchpad Description: Kids will develop fundamental language skills to build a strong foundation for learning through stories, activities, and growing their vocabulary.

- Learn pronunciations and word sounds
- Reinforce language skills
- Explore new vocabulary
- Read along with stories
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Abigail's Tales: First Day (App)
It’s the first day of second grade and Abigail wakes up dreading it! She has a list of worries and has developed a severe case of the “butterflies.” The butterflies circle about as she ventures to school to meet her classmates and teacher for the first time. But with some helpful advice from her mom and a few familiar faces from last year, Abigail’s day turns out to be fun and exciting. Come join Abigail and her friends in this delightful storybook to find out how she copes with the twists and turns of her busy day! Also included are two playful word games that focus on improving your child’s vocabulary, spelling and concentration skills, all the while having fun! Features · Whimsical soundtrack · Narrated by the author, Melissa La Manna · 26 pages of lively and colorful illustrations · Word highlighting for beginning readers · Move between pages with swiping gesture or by selecting a page · Fun, developmental activities to boost language skills (i.e., “match” and “oppos

Hey AJ! It's Saturday! (App) (Imagination Agency)
An imaginative, interactive children’s picture book that comes to life at your touch! Burst through the screen with your imagination and into A.J.'s strange, wacky, kooky kitchen as she tries to make breakfast for herself on an ordinary Saturday morning. But she's not the only one that's hungry in the house. In fact the kitchen is filled with bacon frying pandas, swimming pancakes, a slippery strawberry banana stream, monkeys and even a horse all trying to make a delicious dish to fill their tummies. But nothing ever goes as planned, the kitchen's a strange place! Learn. Laugh. Play. And Enjoy. Join in on the fun with your fingers. Let's make a mess.....with our imaginations!SOME THINGS YOU CAN DO - Read along with A.J. - Story time with Martellus Bennett as he narrates the story himself - Interact with the characters - Unlock the bonus game A.J.'s Bizarre Breakfast - Practice Kung Fu with a Waffle Ninja. - Fry Bacon. Scramble eggs. - Dance with the panda. - Laugh out

Learn to Read: Rhyme Stories (App)
Learn to Read: Rhyme Stories contain six fun, interactive, and engaging early learning stories that improve literacy skills, phonics, and fluency. Parents, teachers, and children all love the stories for their rhythm, rhyming, engaging characters, and vibrant illustrations. Learn to Read: Rhyme Stories was developed and vetted by fully credentialed teachers and aims to improve reading skills, build confidence, and the recognition of sight words and vowel sounds. Rhyming is a key part of building early literacy skills so get started today and start your child on a path to reading success by downloading Learn to Read: Rhyme Stories? The stories include: • Kim Likes to Swim • Pete Has Big Feet • Joe Has a Sore Toe • Jenny Found a Penny • Mike has a Bike • Paul is Tall Children will learn rhyming, long and short vowel sounds, sight words, and social-emotional skills including compassion, friendship, value, saving, money, exercise, self-acceptance, and more! Throughout the ye

Learn to Read: Sight Words (App)
Help build your child's vocabulary with common sight words, beginning consonants blends (dr-ag, dr-um, dr-aw), ending consonants blends (so-ft, lo-ft, gi-ft), and various word families (am, Sam, jam). The app contains more than 500 words! It has also been proven to increase a child's understanding of rhymes and word families. FEATURES • Sight words – Common sight words • Beginning consonants - (dr-ag, dr-um, dr-aw), 20 word groups and the beginning blends are highlighted in green • Ending consonants blends - (so-ft, lo-ft, gi-ft), 13 word groups and the ending blends are highlighted in green • Word families – Contains 22 word families (am, Sam, jam / b-ad, p-ad, s-ad) • Track Progress - You can track the progress of the words viewed •Automatic mode - Words appear every 4 seconds • Swipe mode - The user controls the frequency of the words and can swipe to see the next word • Text-to-Speech - The word is spoken as it appears on the screen. BENEFITS • Recognition of sight w

Minilobes - WordCrown (App)
Help the Minilobes learn new words, collect crystals and obtain the WordCrown!

Phonics Match (App)
Phonics Match is designed to help young children blend and segment words by learning the 42 sounds of the English language, rather than the alphabet. By combining matching pairs with phonics, Phonics Match improves your child's cognitive skills in a fun and playful way.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf - BulBul (App)
This tale is about shepherd boy who repeatedly tricks nearby villagers into thinking a wolf is attacking his flock. When one actually does appear and the boy again calls for help, the villagers believe it is another false alarm.

Vocabulicious Kinder (App)
Give children a fun way to learn new words with Vocabulicious! This app is recommended for kindergartners. Match words to their corresponding pictures and collect stars for your correct answers. Categories include: animals, fruit, plants, shapes, world landmarks, household, sports, senses and feelings, body, seasons and nature, careers, space, continents and oceans, comparisons, helping at home, and insects and spiders. Children will enjoy seeing fun, real-world pictures and feel the joy of getting the right answer. Repetitive playing is key to improving your child's vocabulary, and it's all possible with Vocabulicious!

Word Wizard (App)
Want to teach your kids to read or spell words? Word Wizard offers several unique reading and spelling activities for children ages 4 to 10: • A talking Movable Alphabet that allows young kids to experiment with phonics and learn word building thanks to the advanced text to speech engine. • 3 activities to learn to spell that increase in difficulty • 184 built-in word lists (about 1800 words) • Add your own words to create unique spelling tests • Keep tabs on your children’s progress with detailed reports • Used in US Schools (100K units sold to primary schools & preschools) • Winner of a Parents’ Choice Award • Featured in the The New York Times & Wired's GeekDad • More than 280K units sold! Talking Movable Alphabet Activity The talking movable alphabet has been recognized by many teachers as a wonderful tool to teach kids word building and how to learn to read • Pronounce any word, number or sentence built using the Movable Alphabet • Natural Sounding US Voice

Xander English Wardrobe (App)
English Wardrobe is an English educational app for young children that teaches them the names (and pronunciation) for different body parts, clothing and weather. After consolidating the terminology it concludes with a fun game that provides hours of entertainment. The app is highly sensorial as it engages hearing, vision and touch. It further encourages the development of fine motor skills, language ability and critical reasoning. Learning is optimised through repetition and engagement with beautiful hand-drawn illustrations. Children will be able to name specific body parts and dress in weather-appropriate clothing. Children can also use the app to indicate discomfort in certain body parts or where they feel ill. This app is helpful in second language acquisition and can be supportive in the education of learners with cognitive disabilities (or recovering stroke patients). Patients can benefit from the repetition, patterns and clear pronunciation of words. English Wardrobe c