The app will display each of the words in the category along with foils. On iPad tap the screen to start the Practice session. Once the student is familiar with the words in a category, tap the Settings button to look at the options for Practice. If a sound is playing, the app will ignore taps to the picture and the speech production buttons. You can record and score as many times as you wish for each word. If the pronunciation was incorrect, tap the red x button. If the word was pronounced correctly, tap the green check. Alternatively, you can score the student’s speech production. If the student identifies the word before the oral prompt, then score the word as correct using the Correct and Incorrect buttons at the bottom of the screen. Tap the speaker to hear the speech production played back. Tap the microphone again and the speaker will turn green. After it turns red, say the target word or sentence. If your device is capable of recording, there will be a microphone and speaker on the screen. Swipe right-to-left to move to the next word. The text of the speech production can be hidden or displayed by toggling the “Show text below picture” button on the Options screen. In portrait view, they are at the bottom of the screen. In landscape view, the speech production buttons are on the right-hand side of the screen. When you tap the speech production buttons a picture will appear on the screen with text below it. To hear the word, tap the large text or picture or tap the speech production button labeled W. Each word has a picture, two phrases, and a sentence associated with it. In the Learn mode, a word is displayed on the screen. Tap the Learn button at the bottom of the screen or the large button in the middle of the screen to start. In the second level, the foils are words that have the same length as the target, but may not be familiar to the student. In the first level the foils are words that are in the same category as the target. There are two levels of difficulty in the practice mode. The second mode is a practice mode where the student picks the word out of a field of words that have the same length. The first mode is a learning mode where the student becomes familiar with the word in context. This app is based on the Sight Words DVD from LocuTour. The colorful photos provide a visual cue for the word to help the student visualize the word in context. There are 208 words organized by level of difficulty–Pre-Primer, Primer, Grade 1, Grade 2, and Grade 3. It helps older students who are struggling with reading master the sight words. The Sight Words app lets beginning readers get a head start on learning these words. Studies have shown that good readers look at some words and automatically decode them.
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