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Listen and Pick the Right Picture

A word is spoken and nothing is written down. The child has to hear it, which is a different skill from reading it.

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What it teaches

Listening, on its own. Every other vocabulary game shows the word as well as saying it, and a child who can read will read rather than listen. Here there is nothing to read, so the ear has to do the work.

This is the skill that transfers to a real conversation, and it is the one that is usually skipped.

How it works

The word is spoken and pictures appear. A button repeats the word as many times as a child wants โ€” asking to hear something again is a good habit, not a failure, so it costs nothing.

A wrong picture keeps the question. The word is spoken again before the answers are offered a second time.

What to look for

The voice comes from the browser, so it is the one set on the device. On an iPad the English voices are good; on an old Android they can be poor. It is worth checking, since the whole game rests on it.

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