PocketPhonics Stories (full)2.6.3 - App Store

This award-winning app is the one to get if you are passionate about your child learning to read, and your child is aged between 4 and 6, or older but needs some extra help with reading.

It teaches phonics and handwriting (including joined up). It has a first set of storybooks for them to read, written specifically for children learning to read using the app.

Your child will prefer our books to paper books, because they help them read - if they get stuck, they tap a word to get help sounding it out. You will prefer our books, because the quizzes check they can read the words and understand them.

The books get progressively harder, but kids don’t realise because they are getting better at reading all the time.

Our apps are used in hundreds of American elementary schools. One of only nine education apps awarded the top A+ rating by Balefire Labs.

The app is aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Children master these skills:

* writing letters
* recognising 72 letter sounds (e.g. ‘ch’ are the letters that make the initial sound in ‘chat’)
* blending letter sounds together to make words (e.g ‘ch-a-t’)
* hearing a word and selecting its written form (e.g. the app says, “chat”, the child has to select ‘chat’ from a group of words - some of which are similar to chat)

Parents and teachers can easily monitor children’s progress online. They can see what stage the child is at, any letter sounds they are having difficulty with and what storybooks have been read.They are also emailed a certificate when a child completes a task. These certificates are a much-loved feature of the original PocketPhonics app, which launched in 2008 and has been downloaded over half a million times.

Teachers don't need to worry about making sure kids have the same iPad each lesson. If a child switches iPads, they automatically continue learning from where they finished previously. Children can use the app at home, and continue from where they left off at school.

Order the app's FREE GUIDE to teaching kids to read to understand how it teaches.

Phonics (letter sounds) help children to read by understanding the sounds that letters make. The National Reading Panel concluded that “children who have phonics instruction read better and spell better than other children”.

Montessori & other experts recommend not including letter names when teaching letter sounds.

Version History Minor fix to improve stability. 2.6.3 01/11/2022 Fixes for iPhone XR 2.6.2 11/14/2021 Improved stability for iOS15 2.6.1 10/20/2021 Support for iOS15 2.6 10/17/2021 Fix for issue on iOS14 in updating date of birth for child. 2.5.1 12/30/2020 Support for iOS14 2.5 11/04/2020 iOS13 compatibility 2.4 10/01/2019 Minor bug fixes. 2.3.3 07/30/2019 When a child is added who can already read some words, the app now assesses what level to them on. 2.3.2 06/20/2019 Made it simpler to start your child at the right level within the app 2.3.1 04/23/2019 The section of the app for parents and teachers is now easier to navigate.
Schools can now change the group (class) the app is being used for much more quickly and straight from the adult menu. 2.3 03/27/2019 Cleaner design. Made it more obvious for adults what sections of the app are for them by introducing an Adult button. 2.2 02/21/2019 Fixed bug that occasionally impacted signing up for an account with us.
Made it harder for kids to crack the adult test. 2.1.4 12/17/2018 Updated privacy policy
Fix for when the app listens to the child read 2.1.3 11/22/2018 Technical changes to make it easier to support customers and future development. 2.1.2 11/08/2018 Bug fix for iOS12 when entering password during sign-up. 2.1.1 10/08/2018 Supports iOS12 plus iPhone XS and XS Max. 2.1 10/03/2018 Fixed odd sound issue when mirroring with Apple TV plus other minor bug fixes 2.0.9 06/11/2018 Bug fixes 2.0.8 05/16/2018 Bug fixes 2.0.6 03/29/2018 Bug fixes 2.0.5 03/09/2018 App name on device now makes clear this is the full version of the app. 2.0.4 03/07/2018 Bug fixes 2.0.3 02/28/2018 Bug fixes including issue impacting writing "l" on some handwriting styles on iPhone 2.02 02/04/2018 New app icon makes it clearer this is the full version of the app. 2.01 01/27/2018