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Smiley Sight Words™

Price: $1.99

Smiley Sight Words™ by 24x7digital LLC is a great app from the same people who brought us the TeachMe series.

This app will teach more than 1600 sight words to your child. These specific sight words make up about 85 percent of the text your child will see in early reading materials, which means that the better he or she can understand sight words, the better he or she will be able to read!

Sight words are those that can’t easily be shown through images or sounded out through regular phonetics. They are the words that need to be recognized “on sight” – hence the name.

Features of the app include 10 customizable sets of flash cards, progress reports, chalkboard font, the ability to hide or show certain words, and the ability to copy and paste words from emails or sets. Words are organized by number of letters and you can choose from a variety of sets.

When your child gets the word right, you can mark the flash card with a smiley. Your child’s goal should be to earn three thumbs-up for each word.

If your child can’t figure out the word, he or she just has to touch the word to hear it said in American-English pronunciation.

Smiley Sight Words™ was updated to Version 2.0.1 on June 16, 2012. The update made some stability bug fixes, removed mailing list subscription, removed diagnostic error reporting, and expanded to 40 player slots. The app has a total of five customer ratings with an average of three out of five stars.

I played with this app with my daughter, who will be five in a few days. She could recognize quite a few words, which is great. I did have an issue with figuring out how to try to set player name and photos. I realized this was because my daughter skipped over the opening page, which is where that info can be edited. I foresee us using this app a lot.

For: iPhone, iPod touch, iPad with iOS 3.0 or later

Smiley Sight Words™

$0.99

Smiley Sight Words™

$0.99

Smiley Sight Words™

$0.99
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Rebecca, a former police officer, is an experienced writer and editor. She has used all kinds of different tech and prefers Apple products and apps. Her areas of expertise are in all things Apple, health and fitness, the Paleo lifestyle, and legal topics.