Learn to read Spanish

Learning to read Spanish and mastering the alphabet are crucial skills that lay the foundation for a child's educational journey and future success. These skills are vital during the preschool and early elementary years, as they underpin nearly all academic and professional endeavors in adulthood.

Children today are digital natives, naturally drawn to computers and tablets. We can leverage this affinity to enhance or reinforce what they are learning in school.

Method

Our phonics-based method for learning to read Spanish is tailored for children aged 3 to 6 or 7, and even adults seeking to improve their pronunciation. The program is structured into a section dedicated to tracing letters and comprises 30 lessons. These lessons begin with vowels and progress through consonants and digraphs in the following order: L, M, S, T, P, N, D, F, H, C, Q, CH, G, GUE, R, -rr-, B, V, J, GE, GUE, Y, Z, CE, LL, X, K.

Each lesson features 11 engaging games, available at two distinct difficulty levels, making it an ideal tool for parents and teachers to help children practice and master their first syllables and words in Spanish. Encourage the child to listen and engage with the exercises, understanding that it's not necessary to comprehend everything immediately.

Learning to read is a gradual process that may extend over a year or more. We recommend daily practice sessions of a few minutes, periodically revisiting previously learned material, and continuously adapting the exercises to the child's level. It's crucial that the learning process feels like a game to maintain engagement and enjoyment.

Levels

Each game within our program offers two difficulty levels, which can be adjusted at any time to suit the child's pace. Progress can be paused and resumed as needed. As children successfully complete games, they earn fruits as rewards.

The first level is designed for children as young as three, or even younger with assistance from parents or educators. At this stage, children can solve games with the help of instructions. The second level presents more complex challenges, encouraging children to work independently while ensuring that learning remains fun.

As parents or guardians, it's essential to set the difficulty level according to the child's abilities without pressuring them to rush through or complete levels prematurely.

Abilities

Our program enhances the following key skills:

• Visual and auditory memorization
• Identification and association
• Discrimination
• Understanding
• Literacy

Options

On the home screen, users can:

• Enable or disable background music
• Choose to play in full screen

Within the Tikis menus, users have additional options:

• Change the font to uppercase, lowercase, or cursive handwriting
• Enable or disable automatic activity switching after a set number of exercises
• Shuffle syllables to keep the learning experience fresh

Achievements

Our program allows the creation of up to three profiles (avatars) for different children. For each profile, you can monitor progress across levels, track correct and incorrect answers, and view achievements as a percentage, represented visually through fruits.

Fruits serve as a fun motivational tool, encouraging children to keep playing. When fruits accumulate in the basket, children can click on it to feed the little aliens.

For a detailed overview of a child's progress, press the reports button on the Tikis screen.

Games

NEW THE ALPHABET:

Children can listen and learn to write each letter of the alphabet, syllables, and some words in various modes: trace, copy, and free mode. They can choose between three types of letters: uppercase, lowercase, and handwriting.

For each lesson, 11 engaging games are available:

1. Dolphin: Introduction to the word and its components.
2. Balloons: Identifying letters within syllables.
3. Clouds: Tracing the shape of each syllable.
4. Crabs: Constructing syllables from letters.
5. Butterflies: Recognizing syllables.
6. Bees: Identifying the initial syllable of words.
7. Snake: Forming words using syllables.
8. Monkeys: Building words from letters.
9. Parrots: Recognizing and reading words.
10. Mouse: Understanding word order and reading sentences.
11. Snails: Creating sentences from words.

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