Reading are essential skills for every children to enable them acquire a knowledge, Unfortunately a significant numbers of children in Malaysia and other countries faced reading difficulties. In the advancement of mobile technology, mobile application seem have a great potential to enhance reading skills among young children. However, most of existing application for early reading in market are less the attribute of well design mobile application for young children. This paper aimed to review and analysis the needs of a framework of mobile application for kindergarten early reading. The finding revealed a weighty current literature discuss regarding the needs of a framework of mobile application for kindergarten early reading. As a conclusion, an empirical study are needs to explore the vital elements for formulating a framework.
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