Phonics Games for Kids
Help kids identify alphabets with fun phonics games for kids. Phonics form the building blocks of a child’s language development. Merge this fundamental learning requirement with interactive games to make practicing phonics an engaging experience for your child. Get started now!
Phonics is taught to preschoolers and kindergarteners at a young age to help them decode sounds from letters. This helps them subsequently to start reading and recognizing unfamiliar words. Somewhere between pre-K and grade 2 are the ages where children pick up phonics. These four years are crucial to draw attention to words and letters and help children pick up the sounds based on which they are formed.
Here is the list of the best phonics games that help children to learn and practice phonics with ease.
Hooked on Phonics is digital reading program based on the phonics learn to read system. It promotes reading development and is suitable for children 3-7. Early learners enjoy songs, games, and interactive lessons in this literacy app that teaches print concepts, phonological awareness and phonics word recognition. Hooked on Phonics is available to download for iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android devices and for desktop computers (Windows and Mac)
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
The long awaited sequel to our best-selling Kids Preschool ABC Letters.
Devices: Android
Using ABC Phonics, children can learn about letters and the alphabet and play games. It has 26 educational games to learn phonics and your first ABCs. Children can learn new words and their phonic sounds in this Phonic Matching game for Preschool and Kindergarten.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
The app is at aimed those young people on their way to becoming readers by strengthening their understanding of over 90 common phonic sounds and through over 1800 different practice words enhancing decoding skills. Utilising a number of strong features including storytelling the app personalises the learning of the individual to maximise the learning outcomes of the young person using the app. This app is best used for young people with a reading age of around 6-9 and could be used for older EAL pupils. The main aim of the app is help shorten the time that it takes for a young person to become an independent reader.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
My Phonics Kit is an excellent educational app for young children learning how to read. The app itself is linked to extremely popular and well used Biff, Chip and Kipper books which are part of the Oxford Owl series of books from Oxford University Press. Through a series of different fun and interactive games the user becomes more proficient in their reading abilities and this in turn helps with young children’s spelling ability too. There are also added features such as being able to print off progress certificates that enhance the app.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
An app that focusses on helping young children to learn how to read through game-like activities that aim to keep the young person engaged in learning. The app does not teach memorisation but puts a focus on the ability of the young person to learn the patterns and sounds of letters and therefore build their comprehension in reading.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Linked to the extremely popular and well used Oxford Reading Tree, Therapy Box (the developer of the app) have teamed up with OUP (home of the Oxford Reading Tree) to create an excellent addition to the Biff, Chip and Kipper series. The app is not only a dictionary of words but also contains within it the ability to test users on their spellings, create specific spelling lists and help young children continue to learn to read through synthetic phonics.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
An app aimed at helping young people learn initial letter sounds and recognise letter formation.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Read with Phonics is a colourful and interactive phonics based app that helps young people to learn synthetic phonics.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Mr Thorne's Phonics Flash Cards - A very comprehensive set of flash cards is included in this app, broken down to match the way phonics is taught in schools. Each one pronounces the sounds and the word as a whole. Teachers can use it to teach and children can use it to learn independently.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
A great app to initiate learning of phonics at home or at school.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
A great app to initiate learning of phonics at home or at school.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Jolly Phonics is an app at helping young children in the initial stages of learning to read with phonics. With beautifully drawn scenes to display the learning content, this app will attract children to engage with it. Children learn about a group of letter sounds at a time. They learn to form the letters, what sounds they make, and some of the words that they are used in. Jolly Phonics download is available for iOS (iPad and iPhone) and Android devices as well as on desktop (PCs, laptops and Mac computers).
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Montessori Words and Phonics is a simple-to-use app based on the Montessori learning method that can help children develop reading, writing and spelling skills. The app helps children understand that words are made up of sounds and helps them memorise the phonics associated with letters. The app has 3 levels of difficulty that cover basic CVC words and more complex words with long vowel sounds and blends.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
BlackBeards’s Alphabet, by Unit11, is an educational game for preschoolers that will help them learn the alphabet, the letter sounds and even practice writing. It is a fun and engaging learning game that, because of the pirate theme, we feel it might appeal more to boys. The app allows young learners to personalise their experience by giving them the option to choose the representative words for each letter. BlackBeards’s Alphabet is a great tool for learning the alphabet and receives a 5 star EAS Certification.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
This is the second app released by Cambugs and it will help develop your child’s phonic skills and their ability to hear, identify and manipulate phonemes. These early exercises are the first steps to help children reinforce phonic blends and sounds in reading and writing. Strong phonic skills are essential and Cambugs Phonics is one of the best apps that assure high-quality phonic work. The app received a 5 star EAS Certification.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
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Pirate Phonics is one of the many educational tools developed by Unit11 and it is packed with 41 phonic sounds spread across five islands. Learners will have to explore the islands and find the clues that will help them to find their treasure. The app is educational and will help preschoolers learn and develop their phonic skills and reinforce their phonic blends and sounds in reading. Overall the app receives a 5 star rating and the EAS Recommended status.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Phonics Genius is a customizable flashcard-style app designed to help kids identify letter sounds and their relationship to words. Phonics Genius is an educational app that aims at assisting the early elementary students to learn letter sounds and blends. Phonics Genius is a great resource for building phonemic awareness and is best for kids who are emergent readers with previous reading experience.
Devices: iPhone, iPad