Learning to read Spanish and mastering the alphabet is a crucial skill that lays the foundation for a child's educational journey and future success. It's essential to start this learning process early, ideally during preschool and the initial years of elementary school, as it significantly impacts their academic and professional life.
Children today are digital natives, naturally drawn to computers and tablets. Leveraging this affinity can enhance their learning experience, reinforcing what they're already studying in school.
Method
Our method, "Learn to Read Spanish with Phonics," is tailored for children aged 3 to 6 or 7, and even adults looking to refine their pronunciation. The program is structured into a section for tracing letters and 30 lessons, beginning with vowels and progressing through consonants and digraphs such as L, M, S, T, P, N, D, F, H, C, Q, CH, G, GUE, R, -rr-, B, V, J, GE, GUE, Y, Z, CE, LL, X, K.
Each lesson features 11 engaging games, available at two difficulty levels, making it an excellent resource for parents and educators aiming to help children practice their initial syllables and words in Spanish. Encourage the child to listen and tackle the exercises; full comprehension isn't necessary at this stage.
Remember, learning to read is a gradual process that may span over a year. We recommend daily practice sessions, revisiting previously learned material, and adjusting the exercises to suit the child's pace. It's crucial that this learning feels like a game to keep the child engaged and motivated.
Levels
All games come with two adjustable difficulty levels, allowing children to progress at their own pace. They can pause and resume games at any time. As they complete games, they earn fruits, which serve as a fun incentive.
The first level is designed for children as young as three, and sometimes even younger with parental or educator assistance. At this level, games can be solved with the help of the instructions. The second level is more challenging, encouraging children to solve problems independently while ensuring the learning remains enjoyable.
As a parent or guardian, it's important to match the difficulty level to the child's abilities without pressuring them to rush through the levels.
Abilities
Our program enhances several key skills:
- Visual and auditory memorization
- Identification and association
- Discrimination
- Understanding
- Literacy
Options
On the home screen, users can:
- Enable or disable background music
- Choose to play in full screen
Within the Tikis menus, additional options include:
- Changing the font to uppercase, lowercase, or cursive handwriting
- Enabling or disabling automatic activity, which switches to another game after a set number of exercises
- Shuffling the syllables for varied practice
Achievements
You can set up to three profiles (avatars) for different children, tracking each child's progress across levels, correct and incorrect answers, and their overall performance, represented as a percentage and visually as fruits.
Fruits serve as a fun motivator for children to keep playing. Once collected, they can be given to little aliens by clicking on the basket. For a detailed view of progress, press the reports button on the Tikis screen.
Games
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Children can listen and learn to write each letter of the alphabet, syllables, and some words in various modes: trace, copy, and free mode. They can choose between three types of letters: uppercase, lowercase, and handwriting.
For each lesson, there are 11 games designed to make learning fun and interactive:
- DOLPHIN: Introduction to the word and its components.
- BALLOONS: Identifying letters within a syllable.
- CLOUDS: Tracing the shape of each syllable.
- CRABS: Forming syllables from individual letters.
- BUTTERFLIES: Recognizing syllables.
- BEES: Identifying the initial syllable of words.
- SNAKE: Constructing words using syllables.
- MONKEYS: Building words from letters.
- PARROTS: Recognizing and reading words.
- MOUSE: Understanding the order of words and reading sentences.
- SNAILS: Creating sentences from words.
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