Reading.com: Phonics for Kids

This app is absolutely amazing! My 1st grader has made so much progress in just a few weeks. He has been struggling in school to the point where they were questioning if he has ADHD. Come to find out he only becomes off task when they are on the subject of phonics. He’s the top student in Math and the teacher has his full attention. But reading he is up wondering. I started this app with him at home along with a few cvc word games I found. He’s literally reading the stories from this app! I really like that it’s a lesson a day because it keeps him focused and he doesn’t dread doing it because it doesn’t take forever. Every night we do a lesson and then reread the book from the previous day. If he feels up to it we play the games as well. Definitely download this app and give it a try, you will be so pleased and see results in just one week.

I downloaded this to work with my kindergartener to help supplement his learning at school and to make sure he properly learned phonics as his schools curriculum lacked that. We just completed the final lesson over the course of 3-4 months, and he not only learned quite a lot of phonics through this app, he is now reading at a 1st grade if not 2nd grade level, after starting from not being able to read at all! It really only took about 30 minutes of work with him each night, and the apps lessons and fun rewards for completing lessons helped keep him motivated during some of the difficult parts. I can hardly recommend this app enough!

I have a 5 year old and we are homeschooling. He’s kindergarten age right now and I was really nervous teaching him to read. I tried hooked on phonics, abc mouse, the good and beautiful, but none of these quite worked with us. I tried this program and we just finished lesson 30- he went from hardly knowing letter names and sounds to full blown reading! I am so proud of him! This program definitely is worth it. It’s paced just right, most of the lessons were just right for him. A couple harder ones we broke into a couple different days but he got it. The program only allows you to do one lesson per day (unless you, the parent, want to do more) and I like that. It’s enough so that they are learning, but not too much that they are being overwhelmed. It also doesn’t teach the letters in alphabetical order, rather it teaches them the most common sounds used first so that they are able to start putting words together and reading. The app itself is so easy to navigate and it’s very routine so you know what to do and about how much work/day it is. It is supposed to be parent led but at this age I wouldn’t want it any other way. It very simply helps me to teach my son to read. Us parents are very much capable to teach our kids but I just wanted a guide on how to first teach reading and this is just perfect for it. We keep track of all sight words and new letters that are introduced and him and I reinforce those before beginning our lessons. So yes this app is perfect, and yes it’s designed so that the parent is the one essentially teaching your child and that’s exactly what I was looking for.

This app is exceptional. My son is 5 and loves to play the “reading game” each day (even after 90 lessons). The structure of each lesson includes a great phonics song (until they graduate from it), a new sound (on most lessons), word writing, word reading, a book, and reading comprehension. They build upon each other which has helped build my child’s confidence with reading. The way that each letter (e.g., long vowel sounds) or diagraph sound has a symbol helps my son recognize how to say the sounds in the word, and the stories are a perfect length so that he doesn’t feel fatigued but gets a good amount of practice. I really like how they have the bar below each word in the books and when practicing the letter sounds and words. He has been able to generalize his reading to other books and is starting to read things out in the community. I highly recommend this app. It’s worth every $.

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I wanted to take a look at this app because it looked like a fun way for my son to continue to learn to read. I can’t figure out in the app how to do so it just shows me basic lessons of letters he already knows. Unfortunate it’s so hard to find reading lessons on this app.

Really well thought out design - modules are well paced; UI very interesting and engaging. My 5 year old absolutely loves it.

My daughter just finished the program and I am so happy that she has a reading foundation and we can start practicing and building off of that. This program exceeded my expectations and helped me a lot as a parent to teach my child to read. Took us about 6 months to complete. We could have done it in 4 months but we took our time going through the lessons. I definitely recommend this program to all my friends. I think it’s a great tool especially right before they start kindergarten. I’ve seen comments about the alphabet song being annoying to everyone which I thought it was too because of the repetitiveness but I still made my daughter sit through it and to trust the process. It actually helped us a lot towards the end of the program especially when she would get overwhelmed by vowels. My daughter memorized the song so all I had to do if she would get stuck on a letter sound is say “O makes the sound like…” or “D makes the sound like…” and she would finish the rest. I would say the only thing that I thought was kind of pointless was the last 4 lessons when it was just review and not actually learning anything. We ended up doing all the 4 lessons in one day because my daughter was so antsy to cross the finish line. I think it would have been cool to have one last book that compiled all the characters and everything that was taught at the end of the program as a “finale book” Another thing I think would help is in the hungry cloud game they should have the new sounds as part of game. Like still have all the letters and sounds but also the new sounds like “ea” “ai” “oo” “oa”.. etc Overall the program was great!

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Way too slow and you need a grown up for the whole thing. What’s the point of spending 75/year just to sit there and teach your child more slowly than you could without the app? Seriously no value here