Saturday, March 10, 2012

Great IPad App!

  The Montessori Crosswords App is a great app for preschool students up to 4th grade.  It is based off of the Montessori learning method and helps students to develop their reading, writing, and spelling skills.  It  helps students to understand that words are made up of sounds or phonemes. For each word, the students can touch the empty rectangles where letters must be dragged to complete the word, and hear the sound the corresponding letter produces. It also helps students to memorize the phonics associated with letters by providing a phonics-enabled alphabet where kids can touch each letter and hear the associated phonic.

This app would work great in my classroom.  Many of the students are beginning to identify the beginning sounds of letters.  This app will allow them to connect words that start with those beginning sounds.

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