Montessori Crosswords - Spelling With Phonics Alphabet

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UDL Guideline 2.1-  Clarify vocabulary and symbols
Montessori Crosswords allows primary school children the opportunity to pre-teach vocabulary in ways that promote connection to the learners' experience and prior knowledge. Young children can practice their literacy skills by dragging letters around in a moveable alphabet and practice linking phonetic sounds to letters, while older learners can expand their vocabulary in the higher with three levels of difficulty.




General Critique 

Montessori Crosswords for phonics asks children to drag and drop phonetically-enabled letters into blank squares that make up crossword grids along with pictures of the items and spoken audio of their names when tapped. Written hints are available, and the empty letter squares make their assigned sounds when tapped.  When each crossword is completed children get to play with a flowing animation screen. The app also includes a moveable alphabet that makes phonics sounds when the letters are tapped to place them on the board – letters can be moved, resized, rotated, removed etc.