ChooseIt! Literacy 1.2.4

The ChooseIt! Literacy App, based on the BETT Award-winning ChooseIt Ready-made Series from Inclusive Technology, offers an extensive collection of educational activities designed to support early literacy development. With over 250 activities spanning more than 5,000 pages, the app provides a comprehensive resource for fostering foundational reading and listening skills.

Its interface exhibits a straightforward and consistent presentation, employing clear language andAccessible features such as switch accessibility and full audio support. These design choices have proven valuable for children with special needs, creating an inclusive learning environment. The app incorporates performance reporting capabilities, enabling educators and caregivers to monitor student progress effectively.

Each activity features a graded sequence of 20 to 40 simple multiple-choice questions, structured with positive reinforcement in mind. Correct responses trigger brief animated sequences accompanied by music and spoken praise. The inclusion of full speech support and switch access options further ensures broad accessibility, allowing nearly all students to engage with the content meaningfully.

The app’s performance reporting functions record student achievements, facilitating progress tracking. Developed by an educator with over 20 years of experience in primary and special education settings, the series is especially suitable for pupils at the Foundation Stage and KS1, as well as those requiring additional practice due to learning difficulties. The use of clear graphics combined with high-quality recorded speech contributes to its effectiveness as an inclusive educational tool for learners with special needs.

• Listening Skills: Activities focus on matching and identifying environmental sounds, vocalizations, musical instruments, styles of music, nursery rhymes, simple instructions, sequencing sounds, counting syllables, rhyming, and alliteration.
• Initial Sounds: Covers the sounds of the 26 letters through activities that present each sound individually at the beginning of words. Additional exercises include blended VC and CVC words and long vowel sounds. Grapheme recognition is introduced passively without requiring explicit identification.
• Initial Letters: Focuses on matching and recognizing printed uppercase and lowercase letters A-Z through dedicated activities and round-up tasks.
• Initial Blends: Sounds: Addresses common initial consonant blends such as ch, sh, th, qu, tr, along with paired blends like bl and cl. Activities are designed without requiring explicit grapheme recognition but introduce graphemes passively.
• Initial Blends: Letters: Involves matching and recognition of written blends—both individual and paired—and includes engaging round-up activities.
• Tricky High-Frequency Words: Consists of multiple-choice activities aimed at recognizing challenging high-frequency words essential for reading and spelling. This section offers over 600 pages of practice material.
• Alphabet: Features more than 40 activities focusing on letter names rather than sounds, including skills such as letter identification from symbols, alphabetical ordering, letter reversals, matching uppercase and lowercase letters, and British Sign Language (BSL) alphabet recognition.
• Everyday Words: Provides practice in recognizing, reading, spelling, and matching common words related to colors, numbers, days of the week, months, and seasons across over 550 pages of activities.

Key features designed to support diverse learners include:

• Touch screen or switch scanning accessibility options
• A structured approach developed by experienced educators incorporating proven phonics strategies
• Clear spoken instructions with the ability to replay via a speaker button
• A simple layout minimizing distractions to enhance focus
• Graded multiple-choice tasks presented in small steps suitable for learners with visual or perceptual difficulties
• The ability to save learner results directly onto the camera roll for progress tracking