Word Wizard for Kids School Ed 6.5.1

Word Wizard is an educational app designed for children ages four to 10, widely used in schools to enhance reading and spelling skills. This award-winning app offers a variety of unique activities that engage children in learning.

• Learn to Read by Building Words
• • The Talking Movable Alphabet activity allows kids to experiment with word building and phonics using the advanced text-to-speech engine, which is the first step in learning to read.
  • Children can write and hear any text.
  • Includes two child voices and five adult voices, with options for US, UK, and Australian accents.
  • The app provides uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, digraphs, and a choice between ABC or QWERTY keyboard layouts.
  • Various settings allow customization to meet each child's needs, such as adjusting letter size, associating images with words, and enabling high contrast modes for kids with visual impairments.
• Learn to Spell using the Talking Movable Alphabet and your word lists
• • Three spelling activities of increasing difficulty are available.
  • Comes with 200 built-in word lists, totaling around 2000 words.
  • Users can add their own words and images to create personalized spelling quizzes.
  • Detailed reports allow parents and educators to track children's progress.

Word Wizard has been widely recognized and utilized:

• Over 140K units have been sold to schools.
• The New York Times praises it as an "important breakthrough in reading instruction."
• Wired's GeekDad hails it as "a fantastic app for young children, right through to children in later elementary school."
• It received the Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design from Children's Technology Review.
• Recipient of a Parents’ Choice Award.
• Over 290K units have been sold.

Talking Movable Alphabet Activity:

• Users can pronounce and spell-check any word, number, or sentence.
• The app provides natural-sounding voices, including three American voices, one British voice, and one Australian voice.
• Children can choose to receive the sound or name of each letter when touched.
• The alphabet layout can be either alphabetic or QWERTY, featuring letters, numbers, consonant digraphs (like “th”), and vowel digraphs (like “oo”).
• Options for uppercase or lowercase letters are available.
• Users can even emulate a physical keyboard.
• Four letter sizes can be chosen to accommodate different preferences and board space.
• The app allows customized word pronunciation as needed.
• Accessibility features include external keyboard support and four high contrast modes.

Fun Spelling Activities:

• Three spelling activities of increasing difficulty are provided to adapt to the child’s spelling level. Built-in word lists are available, or users can create their own.
• 1. "Word Practice" says and displays the word to spell, and asks the child to spell it using the talking movable alphabet.
  2. "Scrambled Letters" says the word and displays the letters needed to build the word or sentence, and asks the child to reorder the letters.
  3. “Spelling Quizzes” is a standard spelling test. The app won’t move onto the next word until the child has correctly spelled the word, helping them to remember its correct spelling.
• Comes with 200 built-in word lists, including words for beginners, Dolch Words, 1,000 most frequently used words, body parts, and more.
• Users can create custom Word Lists by entering their own words and sentences.
• Importing and exporting Word Lists is possible.
• Hints are available when kids are unsure of how to spell a word.
• Colorful animations are displayed upon completing a word.
• Interactive animations serve as a reward once a quiz is completed.

Users & Reports:

• The app supports an unlimited number of users.
• Detailed Spelling Test Reports per user are available, with an option to export them in PDF format.

Word Wizard has received high praise from reputable sources:

• The New York Times recognizes it as an "important breakthrough in reading instruction" that maximizes the iPad's features for phonetically accurate sound production.
• Children's Technology Review grants it the Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design, rating it 4.8 stars out of 5. They describe it as a tool that can turn the iPad into a talking alphabet/language generator, perfect for children experimenting with letters and sounds.

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