Montessori Crosswords - Learn how to write words with a fun movable alphabet ! 1


Category: Education
Price: $2.99 -> Free, Version: 1 (iTunes)

Description:

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Based on the Montessori proven method of learning, a fun game that helps your kids develop their reading/writing skills while enjoying themselves. Provides an amusing way to learn the letters for children as young as 3, and can be used by children up to 10 or more to improve and reinforce their word-spelling and literacy skills. Instructions to use it with your kids as an educational tool are provided, although of course your kids can of course play on their own!

In the Crosswords game, pictures are shown and kids compose the corresponding words by drag and dropping the appropriate letters next to the pictures. The game is auto-corrective. The 3 increasingly difficult levels are based on the word series defined in the Montessori method according to the phonetic difficulty of each word (see article on Web site for more details)

Also featured is a fun and animated movable alphabet (with no crosswords) to have open-ended activities with letters for young children who don’t know letters and their phonetic sounds yet.

The game is packed with animations and sounds to create a fun and enjoyable experience!

Check our web site for the tips on how to use it as an educational tool and for a video demo : http://lescapadou.com ( or look for "montessori crosswords" on YouTube)

Summary:
★282 different words, and associated pictures (and more to come!)
★Three word series of increasing difficulty as defined in the Montessori method according to the phonetic difficulty of each word
★Crosswords are created randomly to offer ten of thousands of different combinations (exactly 93696 for level 3!)
★21 Fun and colorful animations -based on particle system - displayed every time a crossword is completed ! (you will be able to interact with these in the next update)
★Standalone Movable Alphabet to play with letters (letters can be resized and rotated)
★Letter case choice
★Alphabet Layout choice (alphabetically or vowels first and consonant at the end as in Montessori)
★Different colors for vowels and consonants (Montessori standard colors)
★Total number of completed words displayed


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Please mail to support*lescapadou.com for any questions or suggestions. We are listening to our users way to improve our products!

Next update (due beginning of September) will include :
➜ Universal app! It will be running on your iPhone as well (at full resolution on iPhone 4)
➜ Animations at the end of each completed crosswords will be interactive!

Future updates will include spoken words and additional words!

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Beginning of the "Parents Tips/Instructions" available on product web site http://lescapadou.com (link also available in the game)
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How to use Montessori Crosswords to help your kids reinforce their literacy skills

Montessori Crosswords is a game that beginning or fluent readers can play on their own. Apart from its obvious advantage of being fun and challenging with 3 levels, it also provides an interesting opportunity to reinforce their literacy skills.

Montessori Crosswords is also perfect for the younger ones.It is designed as a fun educational game that you can play with your young children to help them learn the sound of letters, as a first step towards the acquisition of written language.

How do children learn to read?
Research has shown that the basic process of learning to read involves two steps. First, beginning readers must link the phonetic sounds to the appropriate letters. The phonetic sound of a letter is the sound it creates in a word. For example, the letter "t” makes a “tuh” sound.

Once they know the phonetic sounds of letters, beginning readers can start sounding out words, by pulling apart the sounds that each letter makes, and then putting them back together to make words.

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Montessori Crosswords - Learn how to write words with a fun movable alphabet !



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