If you need some ideas on how to keep your child reading this summer, you’ll want to check out these two iPhone apps that Sherry from A Book Starring Me posted about on her Facebook page.
The first is “100 Ways to Get Your Kid to Read”, and it’s FREE! It literally has 100 ideas for you to use. Just pop into the app, and scroll from right to left to get a new idea. Here are some cool ones:
- “Tell your kids about the books that you loved when you were young.”
- “Teach your kids how to find the books they want at the library.”
- “Ask your kids to read to you.”
The second app is “The Reading Game”, and it’s $1.99 at the iTunes App Store. Your child enters the book that she is reading and keeps track of how many pages she’s read.
Every time she enters pages, she unlocks a reward!
These animated graphic rewards are totally silly–a parachuting squirrel??–but the kids love them! You can also tilt or shake your phone while viewing the reward to hear wild sound effects.
These iPhone apps are a great way to encourage reading! What do you do to encourage reading at your house?
We have an early reader and have leveraged everything from good ol’ fashion classics like “Go Dog Go” to starfall.com – to iPhone/iPod/iPad apps 🙂 We put together a site reviewing the apps we thought were useful in encouraging our son to learn/explore/practice these newly budding concepts at http://apps4ikids.com .