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"Early Literacy" provides different levels of literacy activities to help young children learn Chinese effectively, and master the literacy-related cognitive and perceptual skills, including oculomotor control & visual perception, phonological awareness, morphological awareness, orthographic awareness, pre-writing & writing skills.

"Early Literacy" is developed by SAHK professional team. The content is evidence-based and context-based. The characters are chosen from the local curriculum. There are videos and interesting games to enhance childrens learning motivation. This upgraded app provides new functions including Augmented Reality (AR) game, dashboard for viewing learning progress, upload & play online game data backup. Time limit setting is also available in the app.

"Early Literacy" can be used together with The Early Literacy Learning Package 2 published by SAHK to make learning more comprehensive.

Target population:
1. Preschool children (K1-K3).
2. Older children with learning level approximate to K1-K3.

Content and characteristics:
There are 6 themes in the app, each theme contains 4 parts:

1. Theme videos
- Theme story video: Help children learn to use the targeted Chinese characters in daily communication
- Videos on story comprehension (basic & advance levels) and nursery rhyme reading: Facilitate development of listening, speaking & reading skills

2. Interactive literacy games
"Early Literacy" provides 21 different types of games. Children have to open the 8 basic games (K1-K2 level) before they can enter the more advance games (K2-K3 level).

The games designed for each of the literacy-related cognitive and perceptual skills are listed below:
i. Oculomotor control & visual perception
Basic games
Swift Eyes and Handstraining on saccadic eye movement
Running Balloontraining on pursuit eye movement
Look and Findtraining on visual discrimination & visual figure-ground
Checkerstraining on visual spatial relationships
Advance games
Locomotivetraining on visual memory & visual sequential memory
Line Chasertraining on visual figure-ground
Treasure Huntingtraining on visual form constancy
Hide and Seektraining on visual closure

ii. Orthography-phonology-semantic mapping (Only Basic game is provided)
Voice Recording Fairytraining on orthography-phonology-semantic mapping

iii. Phonological awareness
Basic games
Shake Shake Word Bowlingtraining on character-syllable correspondence
Miracle Speakerstraining on homophone & rhyme detection
Advance game
Monster of Word Eatingtraining on syllable deletion

iv. Morphological awareness (Only Advance games are provided)
Wonderful Fishtraining on word formation
Monster of Word Creationtraining on morpheme addition & word formation
Vocabulary Magiciantraining on morphological construction

v. Orthographic awareness (Only Advance games are provided)
Gluttonous Dinotraining on relationship between semantic radical and meaning of the character (Theme 1-3)
Parachute Jumptraining on relationship between phonetic radical and pronunciation of the character (Theme 4-6)

vi. Pre-writing & writing skills
Basic game
Happy Bustraining on eye-hand coordination
Advance games
Stroke Order Boardtraining on stroke writing
Character Structure Pairingtraining on character structures
Family of Logographmestraining on logographme combination of Chinese characters

3. Mysterious reward
The mysterious clearance reward system motivate children play different games repeatedly, so as to enhance the effectiveness of learning. Facebook sharing and photo taking functions are also provided.

4. AR game
By using specific single-word cards to build the target vocabulary, related animation and pronunciation will appear after scanning! Through AR game, young children can integrate and apply different early literacy skills.

Warning: This App includes AR function and recommended to use with your parents in an open area to avoid danger.