Help your child have fun learning phonics with colorful characters who come to the rescue! This easy-to-download Phonics Pencil-Pal app for Windows arrives on the scene with sirens and a firetruck, and raises a phonics learning ladder for kindergarteners and first graders to climb.

Kids open an onscreen door or window and discover behind-the-scenes adventures as Paramedic Pete, Zachary Zebra, Jermaine Giraffe, and Feeney Flamingo lead the way. In the featured learning game, children practice word-letter and letter-sound association skills. Little learners can also solve dot-to-dot puzzles and watch them spring to life, while practicing letter and number sequencing. Other activities include a paint-and-draw studio for creating printable artistic masterpieces and onscreen coloring book pages with a variety of colors/patterns/backgrounds. A list of words and phonics sounds is also printable for unplugged practice. Jokes and riddles, plus short movies, add to the fun.

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