My daughter is in kindergarten right now and she’s learning to read. Her teacher sent us a list of 122 (Dolch) words that she will be learning to read by sight this year.
To help her, I printed flashcards. Then I thought that since she uses my iPhone to play, draw and learn, I should look for a flashcard app at the iTunes store. After trying several apps, I settled on Flashcard Deluxe (developer’s website).
I created a spreadsheet of the word list based on the Flashcard Deluxe format. The front of the flashcard shows the word and the back has the word along with a sound file pronouncing that word. That way, Michelle can play with it herself.
For the word pronunciation, I downloaded the sound files from Wiktionary and converted them to MP3 using WinLAME.
You can access the final result here.
To download it to your iPhone/iPod using the Flashcards Deluxe app, start the app. Press the + button on the Decks screen. Then click on Private Deck and then Deck Code. Type the following in the text box:
http://www.zackvision.com/wp-content/uploads/kid/sight-words/sightwords.txt
Save it and then tap on Download Cards.
You can also download all the files together in a zip archive to your computer.
That was the start of it. Then I decided to make some flashcards for Urdu and Arabic too. You can access all the flashcards I have created below.
Sight Words
- Kindergarten list of 122 words: Spreadsheet, Deck code, zip archive with sound files
Urdu Words
- Urdu alphabet and numbers: Spreadsheet, Deck code, zip archive with sound files
Arabic
- Working on it
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