Endless Reader

There are times when you can't figure out what can make your child love learning new words. Those are the moments when you should try to appeal to their whimsical and fun-loving side by using and application such as Endless Reader. It boasts simple learning tools with a ton of fancy features that will surely catch the eye of even the pickiest child.

Every time you launch the application you are greeted by Pinkerton and his wacky friends, a bunch of child-friendly monsters that love nothing more than fooling around and educating children, and they do it in a very efficient manner.

The entire application revolves around the concept of using "sight words". For those of you who don't know what they are, Endless Reader's developers define them as "the most commonly used words in school, library, and children's books." The idea is to make children recognize these words by sight to achieve reading fluency as it would seem that recognizing sight words is good for beginning readers. Many of these words have unusual spelling, cannot be sounded out using phonics knowledge, and often cannot be represented using pictures (like "the").

Endless Reader's learning process goes as follows: You pick out a word for your child to learn, and then Pinkerton and his friends scramble the letters. All your child has to do is put the letters back into their intuitively outlined brackets.

The letters themselves are alive and react to when you click and grab them. The second step is using that word and some of the previously learned ones and putting them in a sentence, following the same principle as before.

When completing both word and sentence, the children are rewarded with animations of Pinkerton and his friends doing what that word meant. This approach is effective as it appeals to a child's best quality: a wild imagination.

Considering how easily Endless Reader can relate to just about any toddler out there makes it a suitable application for any parent wishing to expand his child's vocabulary.