OgStar Reading Early

I’m excited to see how this works. But it won’t let me add more then one student.

I’m an elementary teacher and mom. My first grade daughter is currently using this app and she likes it. She is working on reading and this app has been helpful. I think this app is fantastic! I’m hoping there can be a few updates but overall I am satisfied. *********I would recommend this to other parents.********** Pros: This is great for early learners or struggling readers. It guides the students and interacts with them so if an adult is not around they can still learn a lot. It is in a fun, game format so it’s not boring to learn it. The child will say the words/sounds and write the words/sounds. This is great for the child to learn overall. Children can learn their letters, sounds, and words while saying the words correctly and writing the words. Children do earn coins/points for getting things correctly so they can change their icon or theme song. Cons: 1) My daughter will say some of the sounds or words and it won’t accept her response. She doesn’t have an accent and she’s saying the words correctly but it’s saying it’s wrong. I think she’s saying a word half a second too long so it’s counting it wrong. She will be right by me and the word is correct but it won’t count it correctly. She gets very frustrated by this so I will say it for her after a few attempts when she says it correctly but it doesn’t register as correct. ***This is my biggest concern because it’s very frustrating for her and I don’t want her to give up. I know there will be younger children who won’t speak as clear as her so I feel like this is a big issue. *** I am thinking about getting this for 1 or 2 of my very low students that are severely behind their peers but I’m concerned if they don’t speak clear enough they would get too frustrated. If this improves I would like to purchase it for them and even let my principal know about this for our school. 2) This is a small con for me but I can see it being more of an issue for my daughter. My daughter didn’t like the speaker to be a boy on half of the lessons. She liked when the girl was the speaker. I was surprised because that has never been an issue before on things we have done. Maybe because some lessons are the girl and some are the boy so she knows there’s a girl option. She has skipped all of the boy lessons and doesn’t want to do them. I don’t want her to skip any lessons. I will make sure that she does those lessons but it will be more of a hassle because it doesn’t seem fun if I’m making her do it. ***I think an up

Sooo happy to have found this app. We’ve been using for only one week so far but it’s working wonders with my 1st grader. I love what she’s learning and she’s really enjoying the “game” aspect of it. Worth every penny. Thank you OgStar!

This app allows struggling readers to learn in a fun way at home or wherever they go!