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AILA Sit & Play™User Manual AILA Sit & Play™User Manual
Broadcast Mode
The default mode of your AILA Sit & Play. Broadcast mode plays
learning content continuously, supporting a spiraled learning
approach, by providing iterative exposure of key preschool con-
cepts, following the scope and sequence of the early preschool
curriculum.
Learning Session Mode
When your child is ready to learn, start a Learning Session with
the AILA For Parents mobile app. The session will begin once the
current video finishes. This mode is at the heart of your child’s per-
sonalized learning experience. Learning Sessions are stand-alone
instructional units running approximately 15 minutes, designed to
help build a child’s ability to pay attention. During learning sessions,
AILA assesses your toddler’s level of engagement, determined by
physical, emotional, and auditory reactions, and uses that input to
customize future sessions, delivering the right content at the right
time.
Lullaby Mode
In this mode, curated content is provided for quiet time.
Key Concepts
Each day (each session) is focused on a key concept such as
letters, numbers, colors, or shapes, and each week is built around a
theme. Each concept is introduced through a song and reinforced
with videos highlighting different characters and showcasing inter-
active play. Daily stories expand the learning of key concepts, social
emotional learning (SEL), and/or the theme of the week. Each video
is developed with an eye towards cultivating STEAM and the 4 Cs
of the 21st Century skills in a toddler-friendly format.
AILA provides toddlers with repeated exposure to key concepts and
skills, which is not only important in terms of mastering the skills,
but AILA also takes the child’s preferences and learning styles into
consideration through its unique algorithm.
Curriculum
The AILA Sit & Play curriculum focuses on supporting literacy,
numeracy, and vocabulary skills. Integrated with this core curriculum,
the interactions with the onscreen characters also support “soft
skills” such as social-emotional skills, problem-solving skills, commu-
nication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking.
Literacy Skills
Letter Awareness: All twenty-six
letters of the alphabet with
their corresponding sounds,
syllables and rhymes leading to
elementary phonics patterns and
sight words.
Narrative Awareness: With
immersive storybooks, toddlers
gain an understanding of
narrative as both fun and instruc-
tional, essential for preschool
readiness.
Print Awareness: Understanding
that print is read from left to
right and top to bottom and
knowing that words consist
of letters and that spaces
appear between words.
Numeracy Skills
Number Awareness: Recogniz-
ing and counting the numbers
1-10, and applying to size
and quantity.
Concept Awareness: Under-
standing of size, shape, and
quantity as a foundation for
problem-solving skills.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Awareness: Key
vocabulary words utilizing initial
letter sounds to help toddlers to-
wards their goal of learning 1000
unique words by age three.
Soft Skills
STEAM: Colors, Shapes, Obser-
vation, and Exploration
Social-Emotional Skills: Friend-
ship Skills, Managing Emotions,
Problem-Solving, and Skills
for Learning.
4C’s: Collaboration, Critical
Thinking, Communication, and
Creativity.
Additional Features
Songs: Sing-along songs, along
with original songs that reinforce
letters, numbers, shapes, and
colors.
Lullabies: For winding down the
day or for quiet times.
Three (3) Modes of Learning and Curriculum
