Nurturing Hungry Little Minds

Fonetti was born from an aim to encourage a love a reading in children. So, we’re proud to be accredited by The Department for Education’s Hungry Little Minds Campaign as an approved platform for children to practise their reading.

What is Hungry Little Minds?

The Hungry Little Minds campaign is a three-year government initiative developed to help parents access activities that support child development.

Supported by The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RSSLT), Hungry Little Minds recognises apps that celebrate the importance of language and communication.

Fonetti champions boosting children’s literacy. But by reading aloud, we also increase confidence levels and pronunciation when speaking – nurturing vital life skills.

If you have any concerns that screen time affects a child’s social skills – try these approved apps, like ours, and be prepared to be pleasantly surprised.

CBeebies Storytime

CBeebies Storytime is filled with free interactive story books and bedtime stories for young children and is a great way to enjoy reading with your little one. The library is always growing, with amazing stories featuring all the CBeebies’ favourites.

Age: 0-5

Platform: Apple, Android, Amazon

CBeebies Playtime Island

CBeebies Playtime Island contains a wide range of fun and educational games to help children understand the world around them and support the development of core skills. Children can play along with all of CBeebies’ most popular characters.

Age: 0-5

Platform: Apple, Android, Amazon

Lingumi – Kids’ English

Lingumi provides a course focused on spoken and communicative English. The app provides sets of learning games, speech recognition games and video-based games to help the child grow their grammar and get them speaking their first words.

Age: 2-5

Platform: Apple, Android

Kaligo

Kaligo is a digital handwriting exercise book designed to teach children how to write using a stylus and tablet, built on an AI machine learning platform. A self-paced approach enables children to progress at their own speed according to their own ability, whilst AI Machine learning provides real-time corrective feedback.

Age: 3-5

Platform: Apple, Android

Teach Your Monster to Read

Teach Your Monster to Read is a phonics and reading game that’s helped children learn to read. The app covers the first two years of learning to read, from matching letters and sounds to enjoying small books.

Age: school-aged children

Platform: Apple, Android, Amazon

Phonics Hero

Phonics Hero teaches children to read and spell with systematic synthetic phonics. The app includes over 850 fun and varied games. Using a step-by-step approach, children learn the 44 sounds, the reading and spelling of words, and how to conquer sentences.

Age: school-aged children

Platform: Apple, Android

Navigo

The Navigo app aims to support beginner readers to develop reading skills (accuracy, fluency and comprehension) through engaging with the personalised content and activities.

Age: school-aged children

Platform: Android