Help for Early Readers
Screen time with a huge benefit: learning to read
See your child delight in games which lead to real reading progress
As parents, it can be difficult to know what apps are right for our children’s screen time. We want our children to be entertained and kept busy, but we also want to make sure it isn’t damaging.
Our All Aboard app has been designed to get this balance just right. You will find a mix of games which target early reading skills (letter recognition, phonemic awareness, blending) and also make the child excited and happy.
The games are designed to have just the right level of stimulation, with classic drawing designs, nice bright colours and gentle animations and sounds.
Your child will be asking you to play games on your phone every day… but ones which are teaching him or her to read!
The All Aboard app combines the following principles to keep children having fun and making progress:
- Genuinely fun game-based lessons for good engagement and enjoyment
- A visual approach which suits the children’s brains
- Covering all the essential foundation reading skills: phonemic awareness, letter recognition, and blending
- Adaptive lessons which are just the right level for each individual learner
What you can expect from the All Aboard app
- Quick, easy lessons made up of engaging games and activities
- A unique visual phonics method proven to work better
- Alphabet and phonics sounds covered comprehensively
- Building of essential foundation reading skills: grapheme recognition, phonemic awareness, blending, memory
- Adapts to the right pace for your child
- Variety of games which children love
- Guilt-free screen time which is both fun AND educational
- No ads
- Free of charge
Short lessons for full engagement - on phone or tablet
Engaging young children in reading becomes easy when it’s made to be fun from the start, rather than daunting and stressful. All you need is your phone or tablet. You can open the app each day for a new, unique lesson made up of games and activities which target reading skills while giving the child fun, rewarding screen time.
Adapts to be just the right level for the child
Our focus is on moving forward at the pace of each child, without causing the stress and resistance that can build up so fast, when you use the older (and much more boring!) phonics methods. Every game adapts to the ability it senses, in real time during the play. That way every child is kept in a zone of gently challenging fun. That is how you can get the quickest progress for the individual, rather than some “average” child. If the level of challenge feels too high or too low for an individual learner, then the feedback we get from the learner also adjusts how challenging each game feels the next time it is played.
Free app with no ads
The daily 15-minute lesson is free, with the option to pay for a library of ebooks. We believe that children’s apps should not have ads, and so you will not find any in All Aboard. You will also find a classic design with gentle colours to achieve the right level of stimulation for the child. There are no annoying jingles or colour explosions to be found!
Essential foundation reading skills
All Aboard will assess how much your child already knows about letters and sounds and adapt accordingly.
The activities work on letter and sound recognition, phonemic awareness, blending, short term memory, word decoding and spelling. In other words, all the essential skills for having a strong foundation and the best chance of success with learning to read.
Getting started
You can get started today by downloading the beta version of the app. It is completely free - we just ask for any feedback you have at the end of each lesson.