For a limited time, the following Dora the Explorer apps are priced at 50% off each:
Dora ABCs Vol 1: Letters & Letter Sounds (4.5/5 stars, all ages, currently priced at $1.99)
The first in the Nickelodeon Literacy Suite, Dora ABCs Vol 1: Letters & Letter Sounds focuses on your child’s emerging literacy skills. In this application, your child will learn the Alphabetic Principle: to recognize letters, write letters and associate letters with sounds. Once children are able to hear and discern sounds (phonemes), they are ready to associate those sounds with letters. That means kids learn their ABC’s with Dora and Boots in this exciting educational game!
Dora ABCs Vol 1: Letters & Letter Sounds includes:
• Easy to use tutorials lead by Dora
• Tracing Uppercase and Lowercase Letters
• Hearing and reinforcement of letters sounds
• A tap and drag game to put letters in the correct holes.
• 78 pictures that reinforce letters sounds and initial letters
• A new game, Letter and Picture Match, reinforces initial letter sounds by grouping pictures that start with the same sound.
• A letter select screen that allows you to choose any letter to play
• Curriculum developed and reviewed by preschool education expert
• Player profiles now allow more than one child to play and save their progress
• Parent Reporting which shows you how your child is progressing in the app.
Dora ABCs Vol 2: Rhyming Words (4/5 stars, all ages, currently priced at 99 cents)
And the adventure continues! After finding the rhyming pairs, your child will progress to hearing initial word sounds, ending word sounds, and inside sounds. As your child selects a matching token, the word pairs are reinforced. Supportive directions and sound effects help guide your child as he/she learns all about word sounds.
The educational activity of hearing matching word sounds and the challenge of getting tokens in a moving basket come together to keep kids entertained while building important early reading skills.
Ready to solve the Grumpy Old Troll’s challenge? Let’s go!
Dora ABCs Vol 2: Rhyming Words includes:
• Easy to use tutorials lead by Dora
• Four Levels of game play with a rich set of matching words and pictures
• Word matching in different ways: rhyme, same initial sound, same ending sound, same inside sound
• A slingshot game to put tokens in a moving basket
• Voiceovers that reinforce the matching word sounds
• Curriculum developed and reviewed by preschool education expert
•Player profiles now allow more than one child to play and save their progress
Dora ABCs Vol 3: Ready to Read! (4/5 stars, all ages, currently priced at $1.99)
The third learning adventure in the Nickelodeon Literacy Suite, Dora ABCs Vol 3: Ready to Read! focuses on your child’s early reading and phonics skills. After reviewing letter sounds in Dora ABCs Vol 1: Letter & Letter Sounds and learning phonemic awareness with Dora ABCs Vol 2: Rhyming Words your child is now ready to read! In Dora ABCs Vol 3: Ready to Read!, your child will begin to see that letters can be organized in a specific sequence to represent words. By changing the beginning, final or middle letters of these words, they can turn one word into another, a game called “word ladders”. The ability to manipulate first, last and inside letters of simple words is an important skill to becoming a proficient reader.
Dora ABCs Vol 3: Ready to Read! includes:
• Easy to use tutorials lead by Dora
• 5 Levels of game play with a rich set of age appropriate words for beginning readers
• Curriculum developed and reviewed by preschool education expert
• Word ladders in which kids can change words by manipulating first, last and inside sounds.
• Three whimsical frog mini games that are entertaining and replayable
• Voiceovers that reinforce letter sounds and identify the vocabulary words
• Tested by kids
• Player profiles allow more than one child to play and saves their progress
• Parent reporting which shows you how your child is progressing in this app.
Dora’s Enchanted Forest Adventures (4/5 stars, all ages, currently priced at $1.99)
Jump in to this fun-filled interactive storybook adventure full of music, narration, and tappable story moments providing a fun reading experience time after time. Dora’s friend Unicornio learns that he will be crowned King of the Enchanted Forest, but first, Dora and Boots need to help him prove that he is kind, smart, brave and strong. Will you help them? Based on the special Dora the Explorer Enchanted Forest episode, this app includes a story mode and a sticker mode that will keep children entertained and learning for hours.
READ ALONG WITH DORA
Featuring the real voice of Dora, turn the pages and read along with highlighting text as she reads you the story. You can also read the story by yourself. Look for things that are moving or that have a special glow, then tap them to see a surprise animation.
PLAY WITH THE MAGICAL STICKER BOOK
In sticker mode, complete each of the 7 scenes by dragging stickers to the places they belong. Once placed, each sticker will come to life! Tap things that are moving and tilt the screen to look for hidden surprises.
PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF
The app remembers where you last stopped reading, and also remembers which stickers you have placed even when the app has been shut off.
ENGAGING STORY WITH BEAUTIFUL ART AND SOUND!
The app features an original musical score and over 100 fun animations.
Dora’s Dress-Up Adventures! (4/5 stars, all ages, currently priced at $1.99)
Dress up Dora the Explorer and go on an adventure! Choose locations for Dora to visit like the Purple Planet, the Old West and the Crystal Kingdom! Dress Dora like a ballet dancer, a pirate, a cowgirl and more! Or mix and match for silly outfits! Add more to your scene like a dancing pig, Swiper in his spaceship and a caterpillar that turns into a butterfly! Snap a picture of Dora and save it in your Adventure Photo Album.
Dora’s Dress-Up Adventures includes:
• Tutorials led by Dora
• 12 different Explorer backgrounds
• 36 different articles of dress-up items
• 48 explorer props.
• Tap each prop to trigger surprise animations and pinch to change their size!
• Ability to share your child’s Explorer photo of Dora on Facebook & email, as well as save it to your device’s photo gallery