{"id":156,"date":"2017-10-26T00:09:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T00:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/?page_id=156"},"modified":"2021-12-31T23:53:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T23:53:34","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital decodable novels for teens and adults.  Supports instruction in synthetic phonics. Built for dyslexic learners."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p>The TAP or <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/teen-adult-phonics-library\/id1189152100?mt=8\">Teen &amp; Adult Phonics Library\u00a0app for iOS,<\/a>\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/app\/tap-library-school-edition\/id1407324366?ls=1&amp;mt=8\">TAP School Editions (no in-app purchases) for iOS<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.goojaji.tapschool\">Android (Chromebooks)<\/a> offer a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/decodable-reader-decodable-books\/\">decodable novels <\/a>aimed at a teen and adult audience. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/titles\/\">Each book in the series<\/a> seeks to blend sequential and decodable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/phonics\/\">phonics <\/a>with real literature containing sophisticated, sometimes gritty, themes. The app and individual novels are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/dyslexia-specialist-designer-coder\/\">designed by specialists<\/a> to be used by specialist dyslexia\/literacy teachers, schools and parents as well as teens and adults seeking to learn to read.<\/p>\n<p>Read on to learn more about some of the features of our app that support learners with dyslexia or other SpLD or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/titles\/\">look here for a description of each of the stories in the current collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.goojaji.tapschool\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet the Android and Chromebook App\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/app\/app-tap-library-school-edition\/id1407324366?ls=1\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet the School Edition for ios\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h2><strong>Subscribe to our mailing list below to g<\/strong><strong>et the news as soon as new stories are added to the TAP Library.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\t<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/phonics-for-teens\/\">Phonics for adults and teens<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/dyslexia-specialist-designer-coder\/\">design<\/a> suited to the needs and feelings of older learners, with a particular focus on adults and teens with dyslexia, combine in every hi-lo eBook in the TAP series.<\/p>\n<h2>Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>typefaces and typesetting (larger fonts and interline spacing) and choice of contrast (light on dark or dark on light) helpful to readers with dyslexia<\/li>\n<li>high-quality images that support and enhance understanding of the text but can optionally be removed<\/li>\n<li>progress through the book is indicated and encouraged with feedback appealing to older emergent readers<\/li>\n<li>distractions on pages with text are minimal (no movement or sound unless the user interacts with the app)<\/li>\n<li>support material for teachers\/tutors readily accessible from the home screen rather than being &#8220;part of the book&#8221; and a possible source of embarrassment or disappointment for the learner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For details about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/phonics\/\">phonics<\/a> content of each level in the series, please have a look at our\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/phonics-levels\/\">phonics level page<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/teen-adult-phonics-library\/id1189152100?mt=8\">Download the free TAP Library app<\/a> for iOS to browse the beginning and support material of each novel in the Library. The <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/app\/tap-library-school-edition\/id1407324366?ls=1&amp;mt=8\">TAP School Edition for iOS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.goojaji.tapschool\">Android (supports most Chromebooks)<\/a> is a <strong>pay-once<\/strong> version the includes <strong>full access to every story<\/strong> in the collection now <strong>and in future updates<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/blog\/\">blog<\/a>, you&#8217;ll find articles related to dyslexia and other learning difficulties such as ADHD and ASD in teens and adults, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/phonics-for-teens\/\">phonics for older learners<\/a>, and tips and resources for teaching reading to teenage and adult emergent readers.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/156\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.focusontap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}