EF Small Stars
Free
1.6.2for iPhone, iPad and more
Age Rating
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About EF Small Stars
Learn English with Roddy, his pet unicorn Zap, and animal friends Ben, Kev, Vic and Mel. Follow them on their adventures through readers, songs and story videos that model positive and pro-social behaviors. Along with this fun and relatable gang, your little ones will love learning letters, reading, and writing in their journey through the magical world of Small Stars.
Filled with interactive practices, songs and animated videos, EF Small Stars app helps your child build phonics and pre-literacy skills from an early age while nurturing curiosity, a sense of exploration, and a love of English. Kids complete activities to earn stars and unlock fun animated stickers as they progress through each unit of the course.
More than just kids, even better, a special section is available in the app for parents provide suggestions and media resources so parents can practice together with their child at home.
App Features
• Parents section to check practice results and learn at-home activities with your child via video instructions
• 6 beloved and relatable characters from Small Stars course
• Dozens of readers, song videos, and story videos featuring Roddy and friends
• Alphabet and phonics flashcards help parents and kids gradually master phonics letter names, sounds, and letter blends needed for reading together
• Tracing shapes, letters, and word to practice letter awareness and recognition
• 300+ activities for every level of the course, targeting phonics, reading, writing, listening and speaking
• Record and share your child's speaking and reading practice
• Original art in 2D and 3D
• 40 every day topics gives your little ones the language to communicate about themselves and the world around them
• 30+ singable songs written to classic children's tunes
• Quiz mode for Levels 3 and 4 challenge our fabulous Small Stars to test their own knowledge of each topic
Filled with interactive practices, songs and animated videos, EF Small Stars app helps your child build phonics and pre-literacy skills from an early age while nurturing curiosity, a sense of exploration, and a love of English. Kids complete activities to earn stars and unlock fun animated stickers as they progress through each unit of the course.
More than just kids, even better, a special section is available in the app for parents provide suggestions and media resources so parents can practice together with their child at home.
App Features
• Parents section to check practice results and learn at-home activities with your child via video instructions
• 6 beloved and relatable characters from Small Stars course
• Dozens of readers, song videos, and story videos featuring Roddy and friends
• Alphabet and phonics flashcards help parents and kids gradually master phonics letter names, sounds, and letter blends needed for reading together
• Tracing shapes, letters, and word to practice letter awareness and recognition
• 300+ activities for every level of the course, targeting phonics, reading, writing, listening and speaking
• Record and share your child's speaking and reading practice
• Original art in 2D and 3D
• 40 every day topics gives your little ones the language to communicate about themselves and the world around them
• 30+ singable songs written to classic children's tunes
• Quiz mode for Levels 3 and 4 challenge our fabulous Small Stars to test their own knowledge of each topic
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What's New in the Latest Version 1.6.2
Last updated on Jun 2, 2021
Old Versions
Bug fixes and improvements.
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Version History
1.6.2
Jun 2, 2021
Bug fixes and improvements.
1.6.1
May 12, 2021
Bug fixes and improvements - system update.
1.6.0
Apr 21, 2021
Now we've built a Reading Library for our Small Stars in English One app! You can download that to explore.
1.5.1
Mar 5, 2021
Bug fix of settings icon issue
1.5.0
Mar 1, 2021
Bug fixes and improvements.
1.4.5
May 28, 2020
Welcome our mini Small Stars!
1.4.4
May 19, 2020
For Dialogue activities, we're now showing colored feedback while practicing.
1.4.3
Apr 24, 2020
Bug fixes and improvements for book content download.
1.4.2
Apr 16, 2020
Fixed some issues related to book content download, including starting activities while refreshing book content.
1.4.1
Mar 29, 2020
Now for Book 3 and 4 students, quizzes are accessible from unit maps! Your child can easily start quiz from map once it's unlocked towards end of the unit. We also updated Privacy Policy and Service Terms in Login and Settings pages, and made some bug fixes and improvements.
1.4.0
Mar 9, 2020
Bug fixes and improvements. In addition, for Dialogue activities, your child will receive a thumbs up for ungraded questions.
1.3.9
Jan 18, 2020
Bug fixes and improvements.
1.3.8
Jan 9, 2020
Fixed a technical issue in Dialogue activity.
1.3.7
Dec 30, 2019
We’ve improved the Dialogue activity! Hope your child could enjoy it more.
1.3.6
Nov 24, 2019
We’ve now added eye protection function, and introduced parents verification when entering the settings page.
1.3.5
Nov 1, 2019
With this update, now we'll send push notifications to remind you of your child's practice and unit quiz completion! Also, we've introduced a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ) hopefully to answer some of your questions. We'd also appreciate if you could help us fill in a survey for the course so we could better serve you. Both are available in settings of the app through parents section.
1.3.4
Oct 11, 2019
Bug fixes and improvements. Now you're able to see the number of current unit! We've also fixed the issue for parents that corresponding localized version of parent videos is now being played accordingly for each account region.
1.3.3
Sep 13, 2019
Bug fixes and improvements. We kindly ask you to upgrade your app to the lastest version with this update so that you can onboard with our improved learning experience!
1.3.2
Aug 22, 2019
Bug fixes and improvements.
1.3.1
Aug 1, 2019
Bug fixes and improvements.
Tracing feature improvements.
Tracing feature improvements.
1.3.0
Jul 9, 2019
The EF Small Stars app is now also available to non-EF students and parents for a free trial! The trial experience provides non-EF parents and students with a taste of EF Small Stars course, tailored for 3-6 year old children. Two levels of trial content are available: for children who have studied English before, or new to English. Parents can access trial content after registration.
1.2.9
Jun 13, 2019
The EF Small Stars app is now also available to non-EF students and parents for a free trial!
The trial experience provides non-EF parents and students with a taste of EF Small Stars course, tailored for 3-6 year old children. Two levels of trial content are available: for children who have studied English before, or new to English. Parents can access trial content after registration.
The trial experience provides non-EF parents and students with a taste of EF Small Stars course, tailored for 3-6 year old children. Two levels of trial content are available: for children who have studied English before, or new to English. Parents can access trial content after registration.
1.2.8
Jun 13, 2019
The EF Small Stars app is now also avaialble to non-EF students and parents for a free trial!
The trial experience provides non-EF parents and students with a taste of EF Small Stars course, tailored for 3-6 year old children. Two levels of trial content are available: for children who have studied English before, or new to English. Parents can access trial content after registration.
The trial experience provides non-EF parents and students with a taste of EF Small Stars course, tailored for 3-6 year old children. Two levels of trial content are available: for children who have studied English before, or new to English. Parents can access trial content after registration.
1.2.7
May 10, 2019
Unit 0 added for all books! Students can now prepare for the new book with Unit 0.
1.2.6
Mar 27, 2019
Bug fixes and improvements.
EF Small Stars FAQ
Click here to learn how to download EF Small Stars in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of EF Small Stars.
iPhone
Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
EF Small Stars supports English, Indonesian, Russian, Simplified Chinese
