App Review: Sparklefish

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SparkleFish By Whosagoodboy Partners - FREE

A very funny story creation app.  Your children will love recording their voice with this iphone and ipad  app.  

The free app allows you to choose from a few story templates - A fairy tale, infomercial, cold remedy, greeting card and yearbook signing. 

Your child's job is to record the missing words.  This may be an animal, adjective, verb, adverb, etc.  Each category lists a few examples for your child to get the idea.  I find that most children will choose from the words listed initially and then they become more creative with subsequent recordings. 

Once the words have been recorded, you "SparkleFish it" and listen to the your child's words placed into the prerecorded stories with often hilarious results.  Kids love to hear the sound of their own voices! 

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Whilst I don't think that "SparkleFish" teaches kids about story structure or creative writing skills, this app does encourage creativity.  It helps children to learn the difference between nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. It's a lot of fun too. 

SparkleFish could be used to to engage children in a therapy session or in the classroom.  It could be combined with a writing activity after hearing the SparkleFish story. 

You can purchase additional story packs such as "A Dream World, A Day in the Life, Tall Tales, Realtionships or the complete story pack" as an in-app purchase. The promo video doesn't do the app any favours as you can't hear the stories but I included it just for your information.

Have you tried SparkleFish? It is well worth the free download. Enjoy!