READING MAGIC-Learning to Read

Programme keeps crashing please fix my son is waiting to try it out. Thanks

I work in a primary school and have taught children read. I have been looking for apps like this to help my daughter at home, the stages in this app are spot on, the instructions with video are very clear (unlike many other apps) The only slight downside is that in my daughters eyes it needs to compete with the other apps on my phone, it's needs some animation or reward incentive (stickers, colouring, the object spelt dancing or saying something funny etc are ideas for what draws her back to apps) Otherwise this is fantastic, and it's shallow to make every single app all bells & whistles as this app could open many doors for young children ( as well as educating adults in how to help their child with the process of learning to read & write)

This app helps children read short words, but more importantly it gives them practice blending and segmenting words. This is what makes it a superior app, as few apps help with these essential reading skills.

This app focuses on blending segmenting and reading CVC words. It teaches these advanced concepts in a clear and friendly way for young children.

This app focuses on CVC words. It separates the words by vowel categories. It uses letter sounds and helps children with the letter sound association.On a certain level, this app would be a clearer presentation if it only had the reading part. This app might be confusing to some, but it uses the two best approaches for building strong foundational reading skills-blending and segmenting. Experienced reading teachers know that these skills are very effective for building strong reading skills. This app does a good job of helping children practice those skills. It has been helping my students become better readers. It also helps my students reinforce their letter sound associations. At times it uses unfamiliar words, but it never asks the user to identify such a word without an accompanying picture.

This update is excellent, especially with the addition of great explainations of what blending and segmenting are and how important these are for building a firm foundation. Preschool U's apps are the only ones I found that actually teach children the proper way to learn to read. I love the updated interface and games. Keep up the good work!!!

The most recent update took away the only useful stuff for my pre-k classroom that was available. Now it's pointless to have...deleting.

Great app for phonemic awareness and phonics, but the words used are frequently not within a preschooler's listening or speaking vocabularies, which makes some of the items quite challenging and instruction ineffective. Even in this video, we see the reading of the word "hull" and then a picture of grain. How many preschoolers have heard or will use the word "hull" with any frequency? Updating this app with more appropriate words for PreK-2nd grade children would improve it's effectiveness.

i appreciate this app a lot. it helps my lil sister and its not join to replace traditional learning.

It's a good learning tool for kids. The layout is a bit dull, I think it could be more colorful. It's also very easy to use.