App Detail » ABC Countdown HD

What's New

Now with both British and American accent options

App Description

Play one of the most addictive alphabet teaching iPad games available, and help your child learn and practise the letters and sounds of the English alphabet at the same time. How fast can you tap through the alphabet? With 4 beautifully-illustrated/professionally-recorded game versions in one (each with US & GB accent options), this is a ‘big-screen’ app that can test and entertain the whole family.

***Available at our special introductory price!

Letter recognition and learning phonics (the sounds that letters make) help provide the building blocks for your child’s reading and writing development. So, let our ABC Countdown games give your child a head-start on their road to literacy success. Play with your child or play against them, however you play you’ll combine learning with fun. When it comes to taking the first fun steps towards successful reading and writing we think it’s a hard app to beat.

It’s not just for kids! Test your children, learn with them, and most of all have fun, as you see how fast you can tap from A to Z. Beat your own time, beat your friends’, and your family’s. Once you play, you’ll not want to stop.
Developed by online & mobile education specialists, Cambridge English Online Ltd, with 10 years’ experience creating cutting-edge online and mobile resources, ABC Countdown has been tested and reviewed by teaching professionals and parents and aims to support National Curriculum guidelines on teaching and learning letters and sounds.
Features:
- 4 fun, highly-addictive, tension-filled ABC Countdown game versions in one ‘big-screen’ iPad app. How quickly can you tap from A to Z?
- Learn and practise the sounds of the English alphabet
- Learn and practise the letters of the English alphabet
- Choose between capital and lower case letter game modes
- Choose between alphabet letters and sounds game modes
- Choose between US or GB pronunciation
- Beautifully illustrated/animated, aliens help engage/entertain
- High-quality, professionally-recorded audio (US & GB accents) to help perfect pronunciation
- Ideal for native and non-native speakers of English
- Perfect for helping developing literacy
- Ideal for children starting to learn the alphabet/phonics
- Helps develop fine motor skills
- Great for in classroom teaching

***This is the perfect partner app for our ABC Aliens apps for iPhone and iPad…

ABC Aliens - Let our amazing aliens help you learn your alphabet!

These beautifully-illustrated/animated and professionally-recorded apps help children master the English alphabet as well as the sounds each letter makes. Capital and lower case letters modes, as well as a choice of voices (alien or child) allow for even more flexibility in your child’s learning and development. Add to this the Record & Play Your Voice functions and you have an app that is hard to beat when it comes to taking the first steps towards successful reading and writing. There’s an ABC Countdown game included and also a tricky ZYX Countdown version. How fast can you tap through the alphabet backwards?

Loved by children, both native and non-native speakers of English, from ages 3 to 10, (as well as their parents and teachers!) ABC Countdown is a stimulating way to join in with your child’s learning while boosting their English level through educational play.

They’re available in your local Apple App Store now.

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