Hop on Pop: Read & Learn Dr. Seuss
© 2017 Oceanhouse Media
This well-designed "read and learn" apps mixes a good story, great illustrations and solid reading skill reinforcement activities in one app. Missing are commercials or IAPs. As you explore the pages, you can discover hidden stars that lead to ten bite-sized structured memory and phonics practice activities called Memory Match, Jigsaw Puzzle, Word Search, Sequence and so on. The genius of the design of these apps is that there is a control panel that lets you toggle on or off these features, making it easy to turn off all the pedagogical bells and whistles and simply page through a silent version of the story. As the title might imply, the story was written for very early readers, with words like hop, pop, up and pup. There are 33 "pages" and a lot of rhyming. The entire presentation has a lot of quality illustrations, fonts and narration. The text scaffolding features are well designed, letting you tap on any picture or word to see and hear the associated concept. As with other Oceanhouse titles, you can easily jump to any page, and a parent's reporting feature lets you track the number of minutes spent reading.
$2.99, iPad
Teaches: reading, phonics
CTR Rating: 94%