HangArt: Play Hangman, Draw Pictures, Tell Stories

Selected as one of 20 best EdTech tools of 2016 by Common Sense Media. Also recommended by: New York Times "10 Children's Apps for Summer Road Trips," School Library Journal, Erikson Institute's Technology in Early Childhood Center, and Reading Rockets/Understood.org's "12 Apps for Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia That Parents and Teachers Will Love"

Your favorite spelling game hangman reinvented with a modern and creative twist! Play picture hangman by yourself or with a friend. Each correct letter generates part of an image! After you win a word, draw your own pictures that animate and playback. Then, record digital stories with your winning words. No in-app purchases or data required after download.

The illustrations are multicultural and allow all kids to feel included. The letter-tracing feature is a great way to practice penmanship and letter recognition. It’s great for older kids too, giving them the freedom to draw and create stories as well. HangArt is perfect for individual play, entire family fun, and the classroom.

"Culturally diverse drawings and a specially constructed, easy-to-read font welcome kids from a variety of backgrounds and abilities. A jewel of a game … HangArt is a fun challenge, and the open-ended drawing board and storytelling sections let kids take the lead.” ~ Common Sense Media
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UNIQUE FEATURES

• No in-app purchases and no Internet required to play
• Play Hangman with 200 K-3 sight words and original, diverse animated illustrations
• Includes a free guide for parents and teachers with alignment to learning standards, including Common Core
• Sight spelling words drawn from Dolch, Fry, and Teachers College word lists
• Classroom and family friendly: Reinterprets the traditional “hangman” as a man who hangs from a monkey bar, falling off when you lose a word!
• Great for family play, one- or two-player mode
• Draw pictures of sight words in the Word Gallery using a custom drawing tool, then save, playback, and add to your gallery
• Record digital stories in the Story Studio
• Practice handwriting in Letter Tracing Practice mode
• Features Castledown, a dyslexic-friendly font custom created for elementary-aged school children and recognized by Wired magazine as a “font designed to help kids learn to read and write”
• Ideal for English Language Learners and ESL
• Child voiceovers model letters and word pronunciation
• Original music and sound FX by Nickelodeon/Dora the Explorer composers
• Developed in collaboration with literacy and arts educators
• Reward badges tied to literacy activities of spelling, drawing, and writing
• Encourages self-evaluation in children with a word self-rating emoji feature (similar to the “pain-scale”)
• Grownups Dashboard offers in-depth analytics grounded in the mindset approach for parents and teachers, including insights on what words kids find to be especially easy or difficult

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PRAISE FOR HANGART
"HangArt is a great app to add to a family, school, library or museum collection." ~ Technology in Early Childhood Center, Erikson Institute

"A new and exciting educational app for kids, this game is fun and features Castledown, a dyslexic-friendly font custom created for use by elementary-aged school children." ~ NBC News

"HangArt makes learning more meaningful and effective." ~ Geeks with Juniors

"Great for reading skill reinforcement, in or out of the classroom." ~ Editor's Choice Award, Children's Technology Review

"Kids will not even realize the extent of what they are taking in because the app is centered on play. This is a delightful find!" ~ Teachers with Apps

"With HangArt, the focus is on having fun, while building vocabulary in an authentic, situated context." ~ Matthew Farber, teacher and author of Gamify Your Classroom: A Field Guide to Game-Based Learning