Surface Pack, 2nd ed.

Title: Surface Pack, 2nd ed.
Subtitle: Level 3: Early Developing
Release Date: 04/15/25
Type: Reading Academy Pack
Brand: Albert Whitman,FarFaria,HOMER,Highlights,Sesame Street,Transformers Rescue Bots,eKidz.eu
Type: Subject-Based
Audience: 1st 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.

Early Developing packs are ideal for readers who have reached the following milestones:
- Participates in conversation
- Asks questions to clarify uncertainty
- Understands the organization of print
- Distinguishes long versus short vowel words
- Writes text with simple facts
- Begins to spell long vowel words with patterns
This Launchpad contains the following apps:

Ants Dance (App)
Grab your dancing shoes and get ready to see some great new moves. Because these ants love to dance!

Far Apart, Close in Heart (app)
Millions of children worldwide have a parent in jail or prison.

Fred Pudding (app)
While Grandma makes bread pudding, her dog Fred has his own recipe—for fun!

Jack and the Beanstalk (App)
Can Jack defeat an evil giant so he and his mother can return to their castle? 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!

Jet - The Witch Sisters (App)
Big Witch Sister is receiving an award out of town and Little Witch Sister is going to miss it! Help Little Witch Sister spell jet so she can get there fast!

Stone Sculptor, The (app)
Developing reader; a fable reinforcing the idiom that the grass is always greener on the other side - so appreciate what you have as it is not necessarily better anywhere else. Utilises simple present tense, simple and compound sentences as well as adverbial phrases. Uses complex vowel sounds and polysyllabic words. Punctuation incorporates direct speech, apostrophes of possession, colons, exclamation marks, parenthetic commas and of course full stops.

Storybook Animations: Mrs. Mole's Birthday Present (App)
Harriet forgot to bring a birthday present for Mrs. Mole but Felix and Max help her discover the perfect gift.

Storybook Animations: Off to the Beach (App)
Alex packs toys in his tote bag to take to the beach.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf (FarFaria) (App)
Sam's job is to keep the sheep safe but it's so boring. He plays a joke on his friends but will they think it is funny? FarFaria's "The Boy who Cried Wolf" 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 Jungle Book (App)
* Winner of the Editor's Choice Award, Children's Technology Review * Swing through the jungle with Mowgli, the young orphan adopted by wolves, as he learns to live in a tropical wilderness with the help of his faithful friends Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. Join Mowgli on a tropical adventure through the jungles of India as he escapes the clutches of the dangerous Shere Khan. Experience the colourful wilderness and enjoy the exotic sights and sounds of the jungle in this, the latest classic tale to get a sprinkling of StoryToys magic. Rich animation, 3D pop-up scenes and wonderful sound effects transport you to the world of Mowgli and friends where the reader can take part in the story. GAMES • Search the undergrowth with the help of a variety of jungle animals to find baby Mowgli • Knock fruit off trees and into Baloo’s mouth • Pick thorns out of the wolf’s paws, bandage them and squish some itchy bugs • Give elephants a cooling mud bath before washing th

Ting and Chi Grow a Garden (App)
Celebrate Earth Day with Ting and Chi.

Transformers Rescue Bots Save Griffin Rock (App)
The TRANSFORMERS RESCUE BOTS have finally landed…in their first-ever interactive storybook app! Are you ready to join them on their rescue mission? When a new Sky Forest tower is constructed in Griffin Rock, the city finds itself under attack by ravenous plants! It’s time for the TRANSFORMERS RESCUE BOTS to roll to the rescue, but when they need help, who is going to save them? TRANSFORMERS RESCUE BOTS: SKY FOREST RESCUE is an interactive storybook adventure that puts early and emerging readers at the center of the action on every page. Optimus Prime introduces the story and invites the reader to join the adventure as a new cadet on the Griffin Rock Rescue team. The reader meets Cody and the rest of the Burns family as they work with the TRANSFORMER RESCUE BOTS to save the town and the Sky Forest from some very hungry vegetation! TRANSFORMERS RESCUE BOTS: SKY FOREST RESCUE is the latest interactive storybook app from PlayDate Digital, with #1 book apps in over 30 countries! It