Planet Lettra2.3.3 - App Store

"an outstanding app that will help young readers...in a playful, encouraging environment." --- 5/5 "Best of the Best" Sandra Fleming, BestAppsForKids.com

Bumping bubbles magically build words or invent your own to feed the silly creatures on Planet Lettra. Kids love this app for experimenting with word building and hearing what they've made.

Imagine a set of letter blocks that your child can arrange any way they want and hear what they've built, blocks that guide your child in building the most important sight words for reading fluency and give him or her lots of exposure to important letter blends, blocks that even form words all by themselves. That's Planet Lettra.

You can even go below the planet surface, into the belly of Lettra, to see the real words you've already fed to the Munchers, hear them read aloud individually or one after the other. Or rearrange the word bubbles to make silly sentence.

Whatever your child or student's age or reading ability, this app has plenty to discover and play with: green and purple Munchers that love to eat words, silly costumes, musical patterns, creatures with other special powers and more.

In classrooms and special ed settings, educators use Planet Lettra to scaffold student learning in spelling and phonics. Special pink bubbles can be assigned values in the Settings area and used to work on building words with specific parts (practice specific blends or rhymes).

Features:

. Play in English, French or Spanish
. A short video tour of the planet introduces new travellers to Planet Lettra and guides them in playing with the bubbles and creatures
. Planet Lettra recognizes over 100,000 words in each supported language.
. Words important to reading fluency (about 1000) are formed more easily and more often.
. The sound environment is musical, soothing and non-repetitive.
. Experiment and play without stress: there are no time limits, no levels to complete, no points to accumulate, no in-app purchases
-- Winner of a Children's Technology Review Editors Choice Award (2016)

-- School Library Journal (slj.com): "Children will be delighted to discover that double tapping on a bubble triggers the narrator to pronounce it, even if it is an invented word. This app supports word recognition as “smart” letter bubbles (when users hold down a bubble) hint at combinations that lead to real terms. The real joy here is in playfully discovering what letters can do.

-- Commonsensemedia.org: "The open-ended platform allows kids full freedom to explore and empowers them to find words all on their own."

-- Educational App Store Certified, 4 stars, "This app is great for experimenting with word building and hearing what you have made. The app supports fantastic graphics and a unique playing experience."

Version History A refreshing little update: build "SUMMER" with your young one for a surprise. Remember that tilting the ring all the way down on tiny Planet Permea (upper right corner) will keep the bubbles from blending unless you are touching BOTH bubbles and push them together. Lots of tips in the tour video: tap the button beside "Watch ME!" on the home screen.

Otherwise, just minor bug fixes. Thanks for travelling to Planet Lettra and have fun bumping bubbles and feeding the munchers. 2.3.3 07/08/2018 Please take a moment to RATE and REVIEW Planet Lettra on the App Store (or update your rating for the new version).

- fixed bug where touch was moving sleeping potion bubble that was nowhere near the touch
- fixed minor bugs related to text-to-speech
- added speech rate control to iPad Settings, just in case...

For any questions or comments, please email me at greg@goojaji.com . I'd love to hear from you. 2.3.2 01/04/2017 Hi Parents and Educators! Please RATE and REVIEW Planet Lettra on the App Store. It only takes a minute and will really help others discover this unique app (and makes me feel good too...)

Hope the kids enjoy the new Christmas costumes on the Munchers! 2.3.1 12/23/2016 - maximum number of different pink bubbles doubled
- minor changes (and a few Easter Eggs to boot) 2.3 10/15/2016 - Pink bubbles that reappear as soon as they (or a bubble build with one or more of them) are eaten and that have values you can customize in the (in-game) Settings area. Up to five distinct pink bubbles can be used. This feature will be especially useful in guided instruction settings.
- Reinforce GPC (grapheme-phoneme correspondence): changes to the values multi-letter bubbles emerging from the planet (graphemes rather than rhymes)

Thanks to our users for the helpful feedback and encouragement. We love hearing from you: contact@goojaji.com . 2.2 08/19/2016 The AUSTRALIA update...now with more KOALA! Whether you're from down under or not, drop us an email at hi@goojaji.com to let us know what you love about Lettra and what you'd like to see added. Also please take a minute to RATE and REVIEW. Help others find their way to Lettra.

In this version:
- see, hear and play with the real words you've made and fed to the Munchers when you go DOWN UNDER into the belly of the planet
- the long awaited KOALA disguise, as well as PIG, COW and SPARTAN HELMET
- fixed mental-hiccup-inducing behaviour of tour video 2.1 03/23/2016 Thanks to all the pioneering travellers to Planet Lettra for your comments and suggestions: this new version is the result of all that great feedback. Keep feeding those Munchers and sending your suggestions to contact@goojaji.com. To help others discover this strange and wonderful planet, remember to rate the app in the App Store.

- it's universal: you can now play on an iPhone as well as the iPad
- a video guided tour (i.e. more helpful help)
- easier access to game settings
- the Moon of Undo helps break up bubbles when you change your mind
- powerful Planet Permea controls bubble blending
- girl creatures have arrived
- sleeping potion bubbles-
- the Red Gobbler who'll eat anything
- way more costumes
- and a new playable language: Spanish

Phew! Once again, thanks for your encouragement. Have fun and be sure to tell your friends about your adventures on Planet Lettra. 2.0 11/17/2015 1.0 05/18/2015