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Here is a comprehensive list of preschool apps thanks to the University of Michigan:
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This interactive app teaches children new words through sight, sound, and touch by exposing them to the world of planes, trains, and automobiles.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later.
ABC Magic Phonics teaches pronunciation of letters instead of letter names. This helps kids learn letter sounds and combinations, which can make them better readers. The app uses rhythm and repetition to help with memorization.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
This app focuses on the word families that make reading and word identification easier for young children. It aims to improve reading skills.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This phonics based application combines letter sounds, letter writing, and 170 first words to help teach reading.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
In this app, pictures of animals are paired with new vocabulary words and fun reading games—great for animal lovers!
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Alpha Writer helps you learn to read, write, and spell phonetically. Learn language basics, build skills to help you write your own story, and share your story via email when you’re done.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requiere iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Also compatible with Android devices.
This app helps you learn the sounds and shapes of letters with multisensory games. It is a great app for phonemic awareness and shape recognition.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Designed by a speech-language pathologist, Articulate It! has over 1,000 different images covering all sounds of the English language to help children improve their speech.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Created by a speech-language pathologist, Articulation Station Pro contains 22 different sound programs targeting over 1,000 words for pronunciation. In addition, the app has several activities to practice.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app has flashcard and matching activities for individuals with speech-sound delays.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Bats in the Cave is the second app in a series of apps that helps teachers, parents, and students grasp the importance of phonemic awareness and phonics.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
This app allows kids to match words that share the same beginning sound. Targets kids ages 4-7.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Readers of all levels and ages are given specially selected literature to read with this app. The more users read, the more books they are able to unlock!
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
This app acts as a virtual coloring book for your child! Your preschooler can create his own colors and draw on the screen without and of the mess!
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Bugsy Pre-K teaches essential pre-k skills such as colors, shapes, letters, phonics, numbers, and counting.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
This app allows you to keep track of and remember chores.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This app provides a set of therapeutic hand exercises to improve fine motor skills and handwriting readiness in children and adults.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Dr. Seuss Bookshelf allows you to find all the Dr. Seuss book apps for your reading pleasure. Read them on your own, or have the book apps read them aloud to you with their text-to-speech features.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app teaches about letters, how letters relate to sounds, and how to spell words.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app teaches children letters, numbers, shapes, and colors with colorful fish and friendly sea life characters in eight educational activities.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
With over 150,000 words, Howjsay is the world’s largest English pronunciation dictionary. It uses a real human voice for audio pronunciation and keeps track of your word lookup history.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
iSpeech is an excellent tool for teaching and practicing speech therapy at home. It organizes sounds by the ages at which they should have developed, providing benchmarks for where children should be developmentally.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This interactive storybook is one of many from Backseat Driver, LLC. Aside from giving children the option to read the story themselves or to hear it read aloud to them, the app contains hidden elements for kids to find, animations within the pages, text highlighting, and much more.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
Letter Find helps children practice quickly identifying letters when they are amongst other letters. Children tap on letters and need to find all ten to move on.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app is a simple took developed for early learners and kids with learning difficulties to master reading an analog clock.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
This is a fun and educational app that teaches young children to correctly draw and form their letters. This game is ideal for developing fine motor skills.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app provides visual math fundamentals for kids learning math with a learning disorder. The app benefits every child in helping them to grasp the fundamentals of math.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Little Bats is the first app in a series of phonics apps, aimed at parents to help their kids, or used independently by children. The app is designed to teach phonics in a game format.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This app is an interactive book that allows kids to play with Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Three Blind Mice, and other classic nursery rhyme characters.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Phonics Genius is an easy way for children to learn to recognize, read, and speak words through letter sounds. The app contains over 6,000 words, grouped by phonics, in addition to the fun games for practice.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Pocket Artic contains over 2,100 flashcards that target by phoneme and by position of occurrence.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Also compatible with Android devices 2.2 and up.
The classic tale of a mischievous rabbit’s adventure through a grumpy farmer’s field is now at your fingertips. This ebook includes objects that literally pop out of the page, as well as a “read to me” feature with word highlighting to improve reading skills.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later.
Preschool Adventure contains 18 educational activities that teach basic counting, rhythm, letters, shapes, and colors.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This interactive storybook is one of many from Backseat Driver, LLC. Aside from giving children the option to read the story themselves or to hear it read aloud to them, the app contains hidden elements for kids to find, animations within the pages, text highlighting, and much more.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
Through lessons and easy tracing games, Read&Write helps you learn phonics, read, write, and pronounce different letters and letter combinations.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.1.2 or later.
This app teaches grade appropriate Dolch words (the 220 words that appear most frequently in reading) by showing each word, speaking it aloud, and tracking your progress.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
Sentence Builder can help you learn how to build grammatically correct sentences. It includes 100 distinct pictures to build sentences around.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Sound Literacy is an instructional tool and resource for teaching phonemic awareness, phonological processing, the alphabetic principle, and morphemic awareness.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
This 3D app helps individuals practice every sound in the English language with detailed animations that demonstrate the correct positioning of the tongue, lips, and mouth.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Also compatible with Android devices 2.2 and up.
Zac the Rat helps your child hear, touch, read, and eventually master letter and sound relationships through a variety of engaging activities, movies, and songs.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Stories2Learn allows you to create personalized stories using photos, text, and audio that can help improve literacy as well as social skills.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Recorded by children, Storytime is an interactive storytelling app. Each story has original graphics and voice, and also includes a game to help with reading comprehension.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Story Builder is designed to help you improve paragraph formation, integration of ideas, and higher level language such as inferences. The app aims to improve auditory processing by using audio clips.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
Create your very own electronic storybook with this fun app. Simply write some text, illustrate by drawing on the screen or upload photographs from existing albums, record sounds into your story, and lay out all the elements.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
Writing Machine shows how one picture and one word go together, how to read text from left to right, and how to tell words from letters.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
This interactive storybook is one of many from Backseat Driver, LLC. Aside from giving children the option to read the story themselves or to hear it read aloud to them, the app contains hidden elements for kids to find, animations within the pages, text highlighting, and much more.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This fun app teaches basic sight words and enhances spelling skills.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
This app teaches words and spelling. You are able to set initial, medial, or final position in words.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
WordSort is a fun game for learning and understanding the parts of speech. There are three levels of the game as well as different difficulty settings for every learner.