What's New
Minor Bug Fixes including fixing an issue with the DFES Video Guidance not playing on IOS9.
In addition, Phase One, has had a complete revamp of graphics and functionality, making it the number one companion to Phase One of the DfES Phonics Programme; Letters & Sounds - Principles & Practice Of High Quality Phonics.
Phase One, is now split into each of the 7 different aspects of Phase One, and the activities are now as follows:
(Aspect 1 - Environmental Sounds):
(a) A fab Sound Lotto Activity,
(b) A fab Sound Explorer Activity,
(c) A Sound Line Activity,
(d) A Describe & Find It Activity (Vehicles/Instruments/Animals).
(Aspect 2 - Instrumental Sounds):
(a) A fab Which Instrument Activity,
(b) A completely new Which Animal Activity,
(c) A Sound Line Activity.
(Aspect 3 - Body Percussion):
(a) A Sound Around A Sound Activity.
(Aspect 4 -Rhythm & Rhyme)
(a) A range of lovely Nursery Rhymes (Hickory, Dickory Dock/10 In A Bed/Dingle Dangle Scarecrow/Miss Polly Had A Dolly/Row Your Boat/Twinkl, Twinkl Little Star).
(b) A Rhyming Bake Activity,
(c) A Rhyming Soup Activity,
(d) A Rhyme Exploring Activity.
(Aspect 5 - Alliteration):
(a) An I Spy Activity,
(b) A Sound Box Activity,
(c) A wonderful Bertha The Bus Activity.
(Aspect 6 - Voice Sounds):
(a) A fantastic Metal Mike Activity.
(b) An Odd One Out Activity.
(Aspect 7 - Oral Blending & Segmenting):
(a) Toy Talk Activity,
(b) Alphabet Letter Names,
(c) Alphabet Letter Names Activity,
(d) A Balloon Pop Game.
(e) An Odd One Out Activity.
App Description
Whether you are a teacher who wants to use this App to enhance children's learning alongside your letters and sounds phonics sessions, or a parent who wants to support your child’s learning of phonics at home, this App has something for everyone!
The Twinkl phonics App is designed to support children in developing some of the key skills taught in Phases 1-5 of the DfES Letters and Sounds Document. Activities are presented in a fun, child friendly way (with lovely twinkl artwork) and covers the following (provided the activities are unlocked):
- The sounds and names of each letter of the alphabet
- Letter formation
- Blending sounds in CVC words
- The graphemes taught in phases 2-3 (including digraphs and trigraphs)
- Initial and final blends
- Alternative spellings for phonemes
- High frequency and tricky words for each phase.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
As this is the Light Edition of our best selling app, only some of the activities are available for you to test. Should you be happy with the activities then you have the option to unlock all of the activities using in app purchases.
All the unlock features are priced in the same way as if you were buying each phase separately or the Full Version of this app itself.
Please remember to turn your iPad off mute and ensure you have the latest iOS before starting to use this App!
iPad Screenshots
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App Changes
- June 10, 2014 Initial release
- November 03, 2014 New version 2.85
- November 20, 2014 New version 3
- December 07, 2014 New version 4
- January 19, 2015 New version 4.1
- February 03, 2015 New version 4.2
- December 22, 2015 New version 5
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