Price: $0.99
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Your children will love this game and also achieve the first critical skill in learning to read. A child’s conscious sensitivity to the spken structure of language and how this maps into letters and written language is a critical necessary stage in learning to read and becoming a skilled reader. This game reinforces this learning in a fun and engaging matching game.
This enjoyable matching game is played like many other matching games. Touch one of the games options in the main menu to play, and a set of tiles will appear. The goal is to match the different types of tiles and move through more and more challenging levels. Enjoy watching your children become familiar with the sounds of English and the letters that spell those sounds.
The game reinforces reading readiness and reading skill for pre-school, kindergarten, and early elementary school children. The multi-sensory experience with animations, speech, images and written words engages the kids in a fun activity while simultaneously sharpening their language and reading skills.
Baldi is a 3D animated character who can speak with extraordinarily accurate mouth and face movements and convincing emotions. Baldi has been developed and proven over several decades in research, tutoring deaf and hard of hearing children, serving as a language teacher for autistic kids, and instructing children and adults in learning how to speak new languages.
You can control the rate and loudness of Baldi’s speech, his emotions, and facial and disk cues to make the task easier or more difficult.
Settings:
- To change Baldi and his speech, touch the Settings button.
- In the Settings view, you can change the audio volume and the speaking rate.
- You can show Baldi in a standard Outside View or an Inside View that shows the tongue and inside the mouth. This is particularly valuable for this application on phonics.
- You can change Bladi’s emotions by varying the sliders for six basic emotions.
- You can change several emotions at the same time to give an emotion mixture.
- Once you make the changes, touch the Back button and choose your game.
Info:
Learn more about Baldi in action and give us your ideas about how to make Baldi more useful at our info page.
Baldi Copyright © 2009 Animated Speech Corp. All rights reserved. Baldi® is a registered trademark to Dominic W. Massaro.
Includes “BaldiEngine” code by Michael M. Cohen and User interface by Sam Vanderhyden. Uses CMU Speech Software.