Word Spell ABC phonics Gwimpy

The child is presented with a picture of a familiar object or animal which is then spoken to confirm the name. The child can then select the letters as indicated at the centre of the screen, the letters are spoken in synthetic phonics to aid with the spelling of the word. When the child has picked the right letter in the right position they can then choose subsequent letters until they have finished spelling the whole word.

The words get more difficult and the app includes the whole synthetic alphabet which includes sh, ch, th, ck, ng, ee, oa, ow, oo, ie, air, ue, oi, ar, or.

All this with fantastic illustrations and great phonic sounds to help your child get a head start before they start school.

This application is designed to also help your child recognise and recall the letters of the alphabet. They also get the opportunity to trace each letter in lowercase, using either a finger or a stylus pen, this is discretely recorded and a picture of the shapes are displayed in a summary. Each letter is accompanied by the correct phonic sound and an illustration of an object which includes this letter. I hope your children enjoy the programme as much as my grand children do.

Have you ever had a surge of anxiety about your child facing the paraphernalia of phonics? Well, relax, you do not need a degree in linguistics to get to grips with the first stage. In fact with a brief introduction of the basics your child will soon be having creative fun with words, as any child should.

So a phoneme is the smallest unit of sound and your child will be taught about these as part of their phonics learning. There are forty five phonemes! Yes, a few more than twenty six letters of the alphabet.

Phonemes by Gwimpy will introduce your child to these sounds with the assistance of little helper who is also grappling to master them. The phoneme is pressed on the menu and the sound is reproduced with this sound being included in a word which is then reinforced by a short morphing of the phoneme into an object representing the word. That is it!

The test at the end randomly selects a phoneme so that your child can identify the sound with the written phoneme.

We hope you enjoy the learning and look forward to further journeys with Gwimpy and his little helper.
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