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These are some of our favourites. Remember, the key to progress isabout making this an interactive activity as much as possible , or encouraging your child to talk about what they are doing.  \nSpending time sharing electronic resources will have a huge impact on how effective they are and the language that your child uses.  \nThe “Age Group” is as it says – “Suggested”. You know what your child likes better than anyone and what they will enjoy accessing. All of these are available via Apple or Android unless otherwise stated.  \n\n| App Name | Suggested Age Group | Cost | Areas of language |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Fisher Price\u003Cbr>Storybook | Pre-school:\u003Cbr>Emergent talkers | Free | A lovely visual app of familiar nursery rhymes. Nursery rhymes are a great way to support early talkers due to their repetition. Sing with your child, missing words out at the end to see if they can fill in the gaps. You can also use apps like this to work on developing vocabulary and understanding by asking your child to find things on the page. E.g.“Can you find the dog” / “Who says woof woof?” |\n| Peek a Boo Farm | Pre-school and Early Years | Free | In this lovely app, your child has a chance to feed and care for the animals. You can work on:\u003Cbr>Concepts such as clean / dirty.\u003Cbr>Model simple sentences such as “can you wash the cow, can you feed the sheep”\u003Cbr>You can ask questions such as “where is the pig sitting?”(In the mud)\u003Cbr>You even get to hug the animals when it is night time to help them go to sleep. |\n| Monkey preschool\u003Cbr>lunchbox | Pre-school and Early Years | Free | This app is great for working on lots of early language concepts such as colours, counting, same and different, biggest and smallest, shapes and also vocabulary for fruits |\n| Monkey Preschool Fix it | Pre-school and Early Years | Free | This app is great for working on lots of early language concepts such as colours, counting, same and different, biggest and smallest, shapes, new, toys vocabulary, and numbers. |\n| 100 words for Babies and Toddlers | Pre-school and Early Years | Free | Perfect for introducing your child to new words. This is a speech and vocabulary learning game for pre-school aged children between 6 months and 4 years old. Colourful animations keep little ones entertained. |\n\n\n| Nighty Night | Pre-School and Early Years | Free | Celebrated as the perfect bedtime story app for kids, this lovely app tells the story of all of the animals in the farm going to bed. There is animal naming and lots of opportunity to talk about what the animals are doing and where they are. E.g.“Look the duck is IN the bath” |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| My Pizza Shop | Key Stage One | Free | Design your pizza shop and make pizzas – This provides lots of opportunities for children to talk about what they are doing and use concepts such as first, next, last. They also can be supported with concepts such as colours, shapes and you could discuss whether your child would like that topping. |\n| My Cake shop | Key Stage One | Free | Follow the sequence to make the cake for the customer. Encourage children to talk about what they did first, next and then. For children working on speech targets, listen out for those tricky sounds and help your child to have another try at the word if they make an error. |\n| Nighty Night Circus | Early Years and Key Stage One | Free | Another addition to the popular nighty night app, this version has some more unusual animals and gives extended opportunities to think about their characteristics. E.g. the long snake, the tiny crickets. You can ask your child which animals they think would be good as a pet and why. What tricks do they think that the animals would do in the circus? 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