Wanderful apps create interest in language and reading through interaction with the stories
At Wanderful, we are dedicated to helping young and emerging readers with interactive experiences that encourage reading and story exploration. The stories engage your child to learn about language, reading and spelling through playful interaction, loveable characters and music. We understand that each child’s learning experience is different; our goal is to help them build a relationship with vocabulary and comprehension by letting them explore and interact with each story. Wanderful apps are full of ways to learn through exposure, repetition and context. We strive to make each App a truly “Wanderful" experience – full of surprise, whimsy, and humor, with an invitation to explore because EVERTHING inside every storybook is ALIVE. Here are some ideas how you can use Wanderful interactive storybooks with your family:
Fast language
play:
All Wanderful Apps let readers
dynamically change languages from any page. This is a great way to introduce and explore
other languages all within the one App. If the Page Story
Completion setting (under Settings) is also turned OFF, then
it's easy
to jump past the story reading to direct interaction with the individual
words.
Play with the
individual
words:
Every word of every Wanderful storybook is recorded twice: once for
story-telling, and again for each
individual word.
Emerging readers like to tap the words in order to "build" the sentence themselves. Older
children like to tap
the words out of order
making their own silly sentences. Make a game of finding words or making your own simple sentences.
Read together or just let
them
play
Even
though our Wanderful interactive storybooks allow children to read and play successfully by themselves,
it's also enriching to
read and share
stories together. With our storybooks, you can read them aloud with your kids. And you can also
explore the interactive elements together.
We find
that children are very eager to show what they can do, and share their favorites with
you.
originally published by Living Books
How Wanderful storybooks engage young readers
Wanderful storybooks engage young readers to explore words and language through playful interactivity
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What people are saying
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“No matter how you
get them, it's always a Wanderful gift.”
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“It is my great
pleasure to inform you that your product has been awarded the
Editor's Choice
Award as printed in the latest edition of
Children's Technology Review.” (See the award here) |
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“It includes a fully
functional
Spanish version (any text in the illustrations change to Spanish too!)” (Read the review here) |
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“I'm so excited that these favorites, these best examples of
what children's software
can be, will be coming to a new
generation of emerging readers.” |
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"I am excited to see these engaging
interactive versions of my books available to kids everywhere once again.
Thanks Wanderful!” |
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“Parents &
grandparents
who remember the original magic of the Living
Books, and new parents and gift-givers, who will be introduced to them, will all be
thrilled to share these
interactive storybooks with the
children in their lives". |
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"I'm
glad
they're
making these products accessible. Children learn through different modalities. There is research indicating that children with
autism have
learned
successfully through products displayed on tablets. "It's a good idea to make learning more accessible to children.
If it's fun and
interesting for
them to learn, so much the better." |
About Living Books
Originally introduced in 1992 by Broderbund Software, Living Books were the industry’s first highly interactive animated storybooks embraced by educators, praised by parents and cherished by children. Years ahead of their time, the multi-language Living Books won numerous awards and were cited for their ground-breaking technology in keynote addresses by senior executives of both Apple and Microsoft. Twenty years later, Wanderful has assembled key members of the original Living Books team to re-invent the wildly popular interactive storybooks for today's digital devices.