Chuck and Friends: Friends for the Long Haul is Tonka Size Fun!

Chuck and Friends: Friends for the Long Haul is the first storybook app release between Ruckus Media and Hasbro.  What a great success!  This interactive app will delight children with over 70 screens of entertainment including an engaging story, video and "tickle your brain" activities.  Not to mention, children will explore the meaning of hard work, honesty and true friendship.  

Chuck and Friends has many amazing features.  First, you can choose to have the story read to you, read alone or to read and record your voice providing young children with a mobile story time they can take anywhere.  As an educator, I love the read and record feature! This can serve as a great tool for documenting a child's reading ability and fluency.  Secondly, throughout the story, children are presented puzzles to solve.  These activities teach letter recognition, problem solving and picture/word association.  In addition, these activities are randomized making each experience unique.  Finally, upon completion of the story and activities, children are provided the opportunity to make a customizable story using words they have collected throughout the games.  Amazingly fun!

The Digital Age has revolutionized how parents and teachers approach learning.  Look at story apps as positive "screen time."  Chuck and Friends: Friends for the Long Haul, along with the many other apps by Ruckus Media, offer children exciting opportunities to develop literacy, enhance creativity and gain confidence in reading.  As an educator, homeschooler, and mommy, I highly recommend this wonderful app and look forward to what Hasbro and Ruckus have planned for the future.

Literacy Fun With Ruckus Media Animated Apps

Ruckus Media has hit another home run with their early literacy apps: A Present for Milo and Andrew Answers. Both apps feature original stories that entertain while they educate.  Kids will be having too much fun to actually believe they are learning! Shhhh! It can be your secret!

 A Present for Milo features a cat-mouse chase that is ideal for both pre-readers and early readers.  Throughout the story, children are encouraged to tap on 80 different objects to uncover over 125 animations.  With every new screen, young learners are drawn into Milo's exciting world as their reading adventure turns into an interactive game.  Young readers will delight in this stimulating, high quality, animated app.

Andrew Answers takes the reader on a different type of interactive journey.  This hilarious app written by award-winning author, Alan Katz, entertains while developing literacy.  What a winning combination! This app is great for developing letter recognition and letter sounds, as well as, vocabulary. 

The Digital Age has revolutionized "story time" and early literacy.  As a teacher, homeschooler, and mom, I highly recommend these apps for your children or students.  Along with their classic story apps, Ruckus Media offers teachers and parents exciting opportunities to develop literacy.  This is a great way to integrate technology in the classroom or at home by providing a stimulating and meaningful learning experience.