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Animal Antics (for Families)
Animal Antics is a free app designed to give children and their caregivers the opportunity to create a story together. Each participant chooses a character and records their voice. Prompts are given along the way to model conversation between child and caregiver, and to encourage joint media engagement while building early literacy skills. Available in English.
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Daniel Tiger for Parents
2018: Songs and videos from the popular children's show guide parents to help their children develop social and emotional skills.
2023: Daniel Tiger for Parents is a free app library of songs and videos from the PBS KIDS series Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. The content is simple, educational, and entertaining and includes songs on social-emotional topics and skills such as feelings, self-control and responsibility. Also included are video clips, conversation starters, and tips for parents that model and help with how to use these songs with their children in everyday life. Available in English and Spanish.
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Duolingo ABC: Learn to Read
Duolingo ABC: Learn to Read is a free app designed to help beginning readers explore the alphabet and build early literacy skills. The app’s games focus on letter recognition, writing skills, and comprehension skills. High-quality graphics and user-friendly gameplay make this app a fun and engaging way to learn the alphabet. Available in English
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Math Land
Kids and adults can practice math, everything from simple addition and subtraction equations to more complex equations, with the use of different strategies in a pirate game setting. Available in multiple languages.
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Moshi Twilight Sleep Stories
Relax into bedtime with calming stories, specifically created to help children drift off to sleep with soothing music, audio effects, and narration.
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Sago Mini First Words
This paid, subscription-model app, created in consultation with speech-language pathologists, provides learning games that create opportunities for young children to practice speaking skills such as articulation and pronunciation. Activities - updated monthly - center around topics that children are naturally interested in, helping to build vocabulary and create curiosity. Available in English.
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Sesame Street Family Play: Caring for Each Other
Developed as a shared play experience for caregivers and young children, the Sesame Street Family Play app provides over 130 screen-free activities that encourage kids to stay busy, move their bodies, and calm themselves. Customizable game ideas and a simple design invite families to play together at home using everyday objects. The app is available in both English and Spanish.
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Sesame Street in Communities
A free website that provides activities, videos, and tips for parents in family interactions and conversations, from the everyday to the more difficult. Topics include grief, divorce, daily routine, eating well, family bonding, and more. Each video or activity is accompanied by a helpful list of opportunities and suggestions for conversation. Available in English and Spanish.
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Small Wonders (for Families)
Small Wonders is a free app designed to encourage children and their caregivers to learn together by exploring various topics. Each topic has a song and some simple games with questions for the caregiver to read, encouraging dialogue between child and caregiver. Available in English.
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Tinybop: The Human Body
The Human Body by Tinybop supports children’s curiosity in how the human body works. In this interactive app, children will discover how hearing works, how food travels through the intestines, and how the eye sees when they dive into the skeletal, muscular, nervous, circulatory, and digestive systems with seven interactive, animated, layered models. To learn how to play, Tinybop website offers instructions and ideas on how to use this app effectively, or you can download the free handbook within the app. Available in multiple languages.
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Wonder Weeks
The Wonder Weeks app helps parents and caregivers understand their baby's developmental leaps and provides tips for how they can support and stimulate their baby's development. The app allows parents and caregivers to track their baby's milestones (noting that not every baby accomplishes every skill or shows all the signals at that specific age), personalize schedules, and look back on past moments through the diary feature. Available in sixteen languages.