Voted Best App for Beginning Readers by iTeachHub! ". . . apps that have been successful for use with students in the emergent or beginning stages of reading. " 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 allows the user to hear the word as it appears on screen. BENEFITS • Recognition of sight words, beginning/ending consonants blends, and word families • Helps young readers identify short and vowel sounds (CVC pattern) • Phonemic awareness (phonics) • Early literacy preparation RECOMMENDED FOR • Boys and girls ages 3 to 7 • Beginning readers • Struggling readers, up to age 8 • English-language learners FOR TEACHERS USING COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS Vowel Stories Flash Cards assists teachers and parents, both directly and indirectly, in supporting Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English Language Arts. Below is a list of the corresponding CCSS's for kindergarten and grade 1: Reading: Foundational Skills> Phonological Awareness>Phonological Awareness> Kindergarten • Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). • Recognize and produce rhyming words. • Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. Reading: Foundational Skills> Phonics and Word Recognition> Kindergarten • Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. • Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. • Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. • Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). Reading: Foundational Skills> Phonics and Word Recognition>Grade 1 • Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. • Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs. • Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words. Reading: Foundational Skills> Phonological Awareness>Phonological Awareness>Grade 1 • Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). Copyright Quackenworth Inc. All rights reserved.