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Lee Paso a Paso with Beto is out!!!

October 10, 2020Announcements, NewsadminBQWare2025

Our new app is available in the App Store.

Due to the success of our award-winning app Lee Paso a Paso, we have created Lee Paso a Paso Beto. With this new app, you can follow the same methodology used with Lee Paso a Paso to start learning step by step to read in Spanish. Lee Paso a Paso Beto has a new theme and all new games. There are more words and pictures, as well are more syllables and levels to practice. The School Edition of our app has integration to apple’s Schoolwork and of course Apple’s volume discount.

Try the free version with in-app or buy the school edition full version without in-app. Both have the same content.

Let us know what you think!!

Spelling with Brinca Palabras

March 1, 2020Announcements, NewsBrinca, Palabras, Spanish, SpellingadminBQWare2025

Brinca Palabras is now available on the App Store. It is a fun game where you test your Spanish spelling knowledge.

Syllable Word Search Earns 2015 Academics’ Choice Smart Media Award for Mind-Building Excellence

February 13, 2016NewsadminBQWare2025

BQWare is pleased to announce that Syllable Word Search has been honored with a 2015 Academics’ Choice Smart Media Award, a prestigious seal of educational quality, reserved only for the best mind-building media and toys. The independent Academics’ Choice Awards program and its seal of excellence are recognized worldwide by consumers and educational institutions as a mark of genuinely effective learning tools that stimulate the mind, and provide the potential for the student to fully develop higher-order thinking skills.

Syllable Word Search is a winner of the Academics’ Choice Smart Media Award in the mobile app category. The Academics’ Choice Advisory Board consists of leading thinkers and graduates from Princeton, Harvard, George Washington University, and other reputable educational institutions. Product-appropriate volunteer reviewers, combined with the brainpower of the Board, determine the coveted winners. Entries are judged by category (i.e. mobile app, toy, book, website, magazine, etc.), subject area, and grade level, and evaluated based on standardized criteria rooted in constructivist learning theory. The full list of winners is posted online at www.AcademicsChoice.com.

The hundreds of submitted products that are not chosen by the Academics’ Choice Awards team (and many that are chosen) are donated to a variety of worthy charities and other organizations across the globe.

About Academics’ ChoiceTM:

Academics’ ChoiceTM helps consumers find exceptional brain-boosting material. Academics’ Choice is the only international awards program designed to bring increased recognition to publishers, manufacturers, independent authors, and developers that aim to stimulate cognitive development. A volunteer panel of product-appropriate judges, including parents, educators,

scientists, artists, doctors, nurses, librarians, students, and children, evaluate submissions based on educational benefits such as higher-order thinking skills, character building, creative play, durability, and originality. Only the genuine “mind-builders” are recognized with the coveted Academics’ Choice AwardTM.

Lee Paso a Paso 3 is available !

January 26, 2016Announcements, NewsadminBQWare2025

Our new app is ready and available on the App Store.

Enjoy this new application and continue with the learning exercises from the Lee Paso a Paso series. There are 8 levels, each one has more than 28 different syllables and the possibility to practice with over 200 words. Listen to the pronunciation of each syllable and word as you play.

There are configuration options to play without background music, and parental controls to configure/access other items in the app.

Our biggest thanks to all schools and parents who have used our apps and helped us continue creating new ones. We sincerely hope that you continue to enjoy our games and our children can continue to learn.

Know What’s Inside accepted our apps

November 13, 2015NewsadminBQWare2025

This post is just for say thank you to “Know What’s Inside” program for your validation about our privacy policy inside our apps.

It’s a recognition of our efforts since beginning to bring great apps with this kind of policies:

Inside our apps:

* Do not collect, access or transmit any personal information
* Do not contain any ads
* Do not contain any social media integration
* Contain external link to our website, but they are in a popup which can only be only reached by parents.

Thank you.

“Tips to improve our Spanish and our children using apps and online resources” – Mundo Hispánico

January 16, 2015NewsadminBQWare2025

The article written by Laura Carbonell exhibits some apps and resources that can be used to support our children in the study of Spanish. The app that joined us in his comments was “Ortografía Paso a Paso”, her review here:

“Ortografia paso a paso: How to accentuate words through interactive games. Perhaps most difficult to remember and learn. This application makes it even fun.”

New Recommendations for “Lee Paso a Paso”

January 14, 2015NewsadminBQWare2025

Surfing the Internet, we have found new recommendations about “Lee Paso a Paso”. We add links so you can check how the you can exploit.

SíaEducación-Collection. Educators community.

Master degree thesis from LEE. Vanesa Piedras Reyes recommend as “EspeciApp”, support children with special abilities.

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“5 apps to practice reading in spanish” – El Hispano News

September 16, 2014NewsadminBQWare2025

From “El Hispano News” by Jennifer Brunk

“The following applications are suitable for beginning readers and most use Spanish in the context of complete sentences. They have high-quality audio and interesting content, and are suitable for a wide range of ages.

Lee Paso a Paso – Learn to Read Spanish Step by Step by BQWare
This application focuses on the sounds of syllables and how they combine to form words. All words are supported by pictures, so children also acquire vocabulary. Children do not listen to the words in complete sentences, but that is not the focus of the application. It is a game of very effective activities for children learning to read in Spanish.”

“5 Apps for Reading in Spanish” – spanishplayground.net

August 1, 2014NewsadminBQWare2025

Finding quality Spanish language applications for the iPad and iPhone can be a challenge. This is partly because the iTunes store is not particularly easy to search, and also because many language learning apps focus strictly on vocabulary in isolation. Reading in Spanish depends on language in context, so apps that support beginning readers are especially difficult to find.

The following apps for reading in Spanish are appropriate for language learners and most use Spanish in the context of full sentences. They have high quality audio, engaging content and are suitable for a wide range of ages. I have included apps at a variety of levels.

(copy from spanishplayground.net by Jennifer Brunk)