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Our son is in the same transitional period - he turns five in June and will be starting school in August, so we too are staring down the barrel of 'the big change'.
I wanted to post as for us, it's my son's social development that is a bit behind. Letters, numbers, writing and (basic) reading, on the other hand, he's completely obsessed with. I thought you might be interested to know how he got hooked. I've been evangelising a few tablet apps, games and books for so long my post history is a bit of a broken record.
From an earlier post:
> Anyway - our kid is obsessed with letters and numbers, so I figure I'd point you towards what started it for us: The Endless Numbers tablet app (iOS / Android). It's a free download, but for a pittance you unlock numbers up to 100. They also have Endless Alphabet (iOS / Android) which was what got him hooked on letters and spelling.
Leading on from that, someone also asked me about how we got him interested in forming words / spelling / reading following on from the above. Again, from an earlier post...
> It started with Bookworm Adventures (originally a PopCap game for PC, now I think available only as an iOS app - possibly renamed as Bookworm Heroes - though you can still hunt down the original PC demo if you hunt around the web a bit).
> We since moved on to Letter Quest, which he loves - and which is basically the spiritual successor to bookworm adventures anyway. We did a bit of fast talking about the fact that your character is a cute Grim Reaper who attacks his opponents with his scythe (my son tells me it's a shovel), but it's overall very gentle in tone.
> As to forming letters, it was honestly a case of a) him getting obsessed with letters and numbers, and b) our reading to him nightly. We never particularly pushed the issue at all, and next thing we knew, our 4.5 year old is reading and spelling. It's really a bit spooky.
> One series of books that really pushed him in the right direction: they're incredibly outdated, have terrible artwork, and some fairly ridiculous generalisations, but I can't fault the Ant and Bee books for the way they present words and repeat them through the story. These were very effective in the early days, and I'm sure they were a strong part of his reading development.
So, hopefully something in there gives you a few ideas! Have fuuuuun....
This sounds a lot like our son in some ways - quite easily frustrated if something doesn't go the way he wants it to. We generally just try to steer him to an entirely different subject or getting him laughing about somehing until it all blows over.
Anyway - our kid is obsessed with letters and numbers, so I figure I'd point you towards what started it for us: The Endless Numbers tablet app (iOS / Android). It's a free download, but for a pittance you unlock numbers up to 100. They also have Endless Alphabet (iOS / Android) which was what got him hooked on letters and spelling.
I really can't recommend those highly enough - he started with those, and is now playing an rpg variant of classic Scrabble.
I'm thinking about buying Endless Numbers as well...