Change! Everyone loves it, don’t we? That said, nothing about your favourite early reading app has changed much; we’ve just added some features that we’re sure your little learners will enjoy.
WHAT DOES SQUARETALES INDIA VERSION 2.3 HAVE?
New Books! We’ve added a new set of books for your early readers to learn from. Subscribe and enjoy 5 sets of digital books including: – Pan, Cam and the Bug – Pan and Cam Hum – The Cub in a Tub – The Hot Pot – Dot, Dot, Dot: Review #
Reduced App Size! We listened to feedback, and made as many optimisations as we could to reduce the size of our app.
Animation! What were once mere images, are now cute little animations, to boost your child’s engagement as they learn new letters, words, and word sounds. Where these animations appear: – In our blending engine, ‘Swipe Phonics’. – Inside the digital books
Want to see how this looks? Try SquareTales out; get the first 5 books for free, from the App Store and Play Store.
Other General Fixes – Subscription price corrected to rupees, instead of showing in dollars. – Users can now move to the next practice word, without earning a star, if they choose. For that end, we added the ‘Next’ arrow beside every practice word.
These little things can make a big difference in how children engage and learn with SquareTales.
BEFORE YOU GO New to SquareTales? Get started with our User Manual, or contact customer services to guide you.
Download from the App Store and Play Store today. Visit www.squaretales.in for more information about our unique early reading app.
Each time you crack open that book and read to your child, they are getting better and better at building essential reading skills. In fact, children actually acquire their reading skills through repeated exposure and practice.
*For a more in-depth look at how a child’s brain works as they try to develop their reading skill, check out this blog post.
With this in mind, Square Panda is introducing SquareTales, a unique set of digital and printable PDF books, to help develop an early reading habit in children, and promote independent reading. Additionally, each set also contains additional learning materials (rhymes, songs, and fun learning activities), absolutely free of cost, available to download from our Kids’ Library.
A subscription to SquareTales gets you (from left to right, clockwise): Printable PDF books, printable activity sheets, digital books, additional practice activities on the app, and rhymes and songs.
The SquareTales curriculum follows Square Panda‘s custom-made, research-based curriculum, introducing letters in small groups (around 4-8 new letters are introduced with each book). SquareTales engages students through endearing Square Panda characters–like Panda and Cameo, a friendly pair consisting of a little panda and an enthusiastic chameleon–and compelling storylines.
Additionally, the books are divided into groups or sets, where each book focuses only on a particular area of study (For example, Set 1, which is available for a FREE preview , focuses on word families).
Word families are groups of words that share a common pattern, such as “hat“, “mat“, and “cat“. In SquareTales, this is how we classify words into word families, making it easy for children to learn and understand them, and identify these common patterns. This gives young learners a strong grasp of the rules that make the English language.
Child learning through play, with activities based on the word family ‘AP’.
SquareTales For Parents: We know you are very invested in your child’s future. Which is why SquareTales has a ‘Parent Portal’, to help you monitor your child’s progress as they start reading. A ‘Parent Guide’ to help you navigate your way through our early reading app, complete with expected learning milestones, can also be found on our website.
How SquareTales Works: Step 1: Students learn letter-sounds. Step 2: Then they learn to blend these letter-sounds to form words (e.g. c-a-t). Step 3: They practice each word and letter for as long as they want. Step 4: They start reading connected text, and later, full sentences. Step 5: They can now read a whole book! Step 6: They practice what they learnt through instructional activities. Step 7: They learn to read the printable PDF book corresponding to the ebook.
This is a systematic, easy-to-grasp, and effective way to learn English in a fun and engaging manner, beginning with easy letters and simple words, and graduating to the ‘book-reading’ stage very quickly!
What Children Learn With SquareTales:
Knowledge of letter sounds and how to blend them, with guided practice.
See how our proprietary blending engine works.
Learners learn to use the knowledge of letter-sound relationships to correctly pronounce written words.
Builds vocabulary, comprehension skills, and knowledge about written conventions.
Learners will be exposed to various CVC (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant) words from each word family, for example, ‘tap’, ‘nap’, ‘sap’, from the word family ‘ap’. This teaches them to not only sound out, read, and spell these words, but also identify the phonetic pattern that marks them as a part of a specific word family.
Learners will also be introduced to common sight words (i.e. words that don’t follow the rules of blending) like ‘the’, ‘is’, and more.
Additional Skills Developed By SquareTale’s Instructional Activities: – Vocabulary building – Sight word identification – Story sequencing
For best results, make sure you use all our learning resources as recommended.
The Benefits Of Teaching With Square Tales
To make reading and learning easier, all the books (of initial sets) are arranged in terms of word families. The learning level gradually increases, book by book, to help learners stay challenged and engaged.
Similarly, in terms of a roadmap, each book series deals with a different, slightly more challenging theme, for example, the first series deals with word families, the next one deals with a more challenging theme, and so on.
SquareTales builds the essential components of reading we focus on— phonemic awareness, phonics, listening comprehension, and vocabulary.
With the first set of learning books (5 in-app digital books) completely FREE, what are you waiting for? Download the app today!
*Subscribe to SquareTales…
Monthly: At just 199/month (including GST) Yearly: At just 1799/year (including GST)
…once your FREE digital books are done, and unlock all the new reading kits (which include digital books, printable PDF books, and activities) monthly. As the curriculum advances, so does your child’s learning and reading!
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– By Sanjana Shukla, Content Writer, Square Panda India
