A little help for grown-ups
Play one letter together: hear its name, find its letter, then match its picture. Each step waits for the child to continue. Allow about two minutes per letter, with as much replay time as they want.
Keep the pace comfortable
Home and One more letter are both available after a reward. The optional two- or three-letter stopping reminder never locks the game. A Back tap during a lesson keeps that activity ready to resume from the home Play button while the page remains open.
Choose how to practice
Grown-ups can hide words on lesson pictures, show Pip’s spoken words, or enable listen-first Find. Listen-first asks for a letter without printing the answer in the prompt; Show a hint reveals it. With sound off, the printed clue stays visible. Keep the normal supported lesson for a first introduction.
Use the Letters, Pictures and Dinosaurs book tabs to choose any letter, see collected pictures or visit a friend. Play a letter again to collect its next picture. Stars show completion, not mastery.
If Pip is quiet
- Tap Play or a listening button. Browsers often need a tap before allowing sound.
- Check the game’s speaker icon and your device’s media volume or connected headphones.
- If a recording fails, tap Replay. You can still continue the activity.
- If the connection is interrupted, try again when it returns. This website is not a fully offline app.
Hope’s clips are saved audio files. Ordinary words can fall back to a browser voice. Letter names and individual sounds use recordings only; the browser never guesses them. Recordings still need a listening check on the actual phones and tablets your family uses.
Names and sounds
The large letter plays the letter’s name, then its individual sound. Letter name and Hear the sound replay them separately. Picture cards say their complete words. The replacement letter sounds were reviewed by the app maker; listen together on your own device too.
The app uses US English. Q is introduced with U, and X is heard at the end of box, fox and six. Umbrella begins with short U; unicorn begins with “yoo.” Some pictures have other reasonable names: a gift can be a present, an iguana a lizard, and a quarter a coin. Name the picture together before asking about its sound.
Your dinosaur friends
Finish A to meet Amber, B to meet Butter, and so on. Every friend’s printed name begins with its letter. P is Piplet, Pip’s little sibling. Gus uses hard G, Izzy uses short I, and Umber uses short U. Say Xo “EX-oh”; this playful name uses the letter name, while X appears at the end of box, fox and six. Replay a letter to collect its other pictures.
Add Pip to an iPhone or iPad Home Screen
Open the site in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. This creates a shortcut; it does not download every lesson for offline use.
Saved progress and support
Use the same browser on the same device to keep the explorer book. For help with this beta, contact the person who shared it with you. A dedicated publisher support contact is still to be added.