Letterland Stories: Zig Zag Zebra app for iPhone and iPad

Go on a reading adventure with Zig Zag Zebra and her Letterland friends!

Features “Zig Zag Zebra and the buzz” - a carefully designed imaginative story which allows you to share the reading experience with levelled sections for your child to read with minimal support.

-- Winner - GESS Education Awards 2015 - Best Free ICT / App Product --

• Narration can be toggled on or off.
• Speech bubbles highlight decodable words for beginner readers – a, pat, sap, tap, tapas.
• Short sentences for early readers made up of words using the 26 letters in their most phonically regular form.
• Tap words in the short sentences to hear their pronunciation.
• Tap any Letterland character to hear their name and the sound they make.
• Simple comprehension questions at the end of the story.


Additional app features include:

• Fun activities including a maze, word search, spot the difference puzzle, matching pairs game and drawing activities.
• Trace lower and uppercase ‘a’ to build towards independent writing. Introduces the correct strokes for writing.
• Handwriting song for the letter ‘a’ to help learn letter shape formation correctly.

Trusted by parents, endorsed by teachers, loved by children. The Letterland child-friendly phonics apps are suitable for ages 3-8.

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Developed by Gazoob, the team behind "Read with Biff, Chip & Kipper".

About Letterland: In 2013 Letterland celebrated 45 years of publishing success. In those 45 years weve published hundreds of titles that have sold in their millions around the world. Letterland is used in over 111 countries worldwide and our award-winning books and software have helped countless young children learn to read, write and spell.

The Letterland stories fully meet the Department for Education core criteria for high quality synthetic phonics resources.