AGO Phonics Sound Pad (new ed)

Touch letters & pictures, listen, practice and learn phonics!

AGO Phonics Sound Pad - Learn Phonics Easily

"AGO Phonics Sound Pad (new ed)" is an interactive Android app designed for EFL learners and young native speakers to explore phonics. It features over 425 words and 140 phoneme targets, with examples across four graded difficulty levels. Users can choose between male and female voices and utilize the app alongside AGO Phonics card games. A free Aqua level version is available, while the full version includes a comprehensive sound board and additional Q&A content, making it a valuable tool for both classroom and home learning.
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Rating: 3.25
(65)
Version: 3.3.1 (Last updated: 2023-01-10)
Creation date: 2017-07-03
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Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Other:
  • view network connections
  • disable your screen lock
  • full network access
  • prevent device from sleeping

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App summary

New version (with extra content, features and different voices).
Explore and learn phonics words and sounds via an intuitive and colorful touchscreen interface!
Useful for EFL English students and young native English speakers alike!

• Over 425 words and 140 phoneme targets available to practice and learn!
• Each phoneme target has three high frequency word examples.
• Four levels graded by difficulty (Aqua, Green, Orange, Purple).
• Set voice to male, or female.
• Useful on its own, or alongside bestselling AGO Phonics card games (first or second edition), to reference the pronunciation of words on the cards.
• Great for classroom and home use!
• Aqua level is completely free. Upgrade to access all features of the other three levels, and one super sound board, containing all 140 targets (over 425 vocab items total)!
• AGO Q&A Aqua sound pad is also included free. (includes 36 simple Q&A questions and 200 vocab items to practice).
Content matches the bestselling AGO Phonics card games series, making its content quick and easy to reference. For EFL / ELT learners, the app offers an easy way to quickly reference and hear unknown words pronounced by native speakers (which can otherwise be difficult for students to do outside the classroom).
Parents and adult students with a lack of confidence in their own English pronunciation can also benefit from using this app and AGO cards as a way to learn the sounds of English.
The AGO Phonics sound pad goes far beyond the ABC's - over four levels, over 140 of the most common phonemes and word families used in the English language are covered- including consonant blends, digraphs, r controlled vowels, diphthongs, long vowel sounds, silent letters and more!

User reviews

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Pros
  • Learning is very easy
  • Clear voices in male and female
  • Good vocab and phoneme variety
  • Nicely put together app
Cons
  • Many letters pronounced incorrectly
  • Specific sounds like 'ee' and 'au' have issues
  • Confusing pronunciation (adding /uh/ sound)
  • Concerns about incorrect phonics teaching
Most mentioned
  • Pronunciation issues with several letters
  • Clear voices are appreciated
  • Overall usability and design of the app
User reviews
Learning is very easy 👍
by Priti Vijay, 2024-08-22

Nice apps
by pk, 2024-01-17

I think the sounds are voiced very nicely and clearly. Male and female is nice, but I guess accents would be even better perhaps. I noted a review where they imply that it was all voiced incorrectly, because sounds aren't always spoken in isolation, but... I disagree. You can't just make some sounds in isolation in some cases, nor is it done that way. The sounds are read in the correct way, I believe (experienced children's English teacher). And, in phonics there is some variation anyway.
by Miwako Otani, 2021-07-04
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