READING MAGIC for Schools

This app focuses on short vowel, 3-letter words. The app uses about 200 words broken down into 24 categories. This app is all about showing how words are made up of sounds. This app shows how to construct words from sounds and how to deconstruct words into sounds. This app has three different reading games. The first game involves, what reading experts call blending. Children take separate individual sounds and blend them together into a single word. The second game is what reading experts call segmenting. Children take a word and break it down into its individual separate sounds. The third game that this app has is a straightforward reading activity. For both the reading and the blending games, the pictures are hidden, which I really like. In my years of working with children on beginning reading skills, I have seen children doing a lot of picture guessing. This app helps children practice the basic reading skills with the pictures being used to help the children check their work, rather than distracting them from the skill that they are supposed to be learning. I have mixed feelings about some of the uncommon words that this app uses. On one hand the uncommon words are not in the child’s working vocabulary. On the other hand, the app can help build the child’s vocabulary and can help the child practice the actual skill, almost like some reading programs that use nonsense words (words that are not even real) for teaching rhymes or consonant blends. Finally, the pictures will say what word they are when touched. This eliminates any confusion as to what the word is. This app must've had an update to its interface. The interface is nice and friendly. This app has helped my children build their word reading skills.

The interface is not attractive at all but it's a very good education app. This app has 3 reading levels with both male and female voices, a must have for parents.