What's New

Bug fixes and new artwork.

App Description

Welcome to Mr Thorne's Phonics Myths & Legends.

This app is aimed at older children who are struggling with reading due to gaps in their phonic knowledge. This app may also be used be younger children and adults. Earn points by completing the phonics games and discover dragons, sea serpents, mermaids and other mythical creatures along the way!

This phonics app from Mr Thorne is the 19th educational app overall since the hugely successful Mr Thorne Does Phonics video series on Youtube which has had over 10 million viewers in the last 8 years.

The app has been created by Mr Thorne, a current UK primary teacher making it relevant and useful to children, parents, teachers, trainee teachers and anyone learning to read English. Mr Thorne Does Phonics is designed to meet the demands of the Year One Phonics Screening tests for 5 and 6 year olds in schools. The app features 4 games to help with sound recognition, word recognition, phoneme to grapheme correspondence and grapheme to phoneme correspondence.

For ages 7+

Teachers Note: The app is split into phases matching the UK Letters and Sounds programme - for example, World 1 features s,a,t,p,i,n

a b c d e f ff g h i j k ck l ll m n o p qu r s ss t u v w x y z zz ch th th ng ai ee igh oa oo oo ow oi ur er or ar air ear ure al aw ay ea ew ey ie ir wh ie ea ch sh y y ou ue ph oy dg ow silent letters zh schwa soft c soft g a-e i-e o-e u-e

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • June 08, 2014 Initial release
  • July 19, 2014 New version 1.1
  • July 19, 2014 Price increase: $0.99 -> $2.99
  • July 22, 2014 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $1.99
  • July 23, 2014 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
  • August 16, 2014 New version 1.2
  • November 14, 2014 New version 1.3
  • December 09, 2014 New version 1.5
  • March 17, 2015 New version 1.6
  • March 17, 2015 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $1.99
  • April 27, 2015 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
  • July 14, 2015 Price increase: $2.99 -> $3.99
  • July 26, 2015 Price decrease: $3.99 -> $2.99
  • November 07, 2015 Price increase: $2.99 -> $3.99
  • November 15, 2015 Price decrease: $3.99 -> $2.99
  • August 07, 2016 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $1.99
  • June 15, 2019 New version 2.0