iReadBetter

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iOS Version
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May 26, 2017
November 30, 2024
11.0+
4+
233.74MB
iPad
English

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Apple silicon support

Developer of iReadBetter

Next Learning LLC

⭐️5 / 5

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Version History of iReadBetter

4.4

February 18, 2024

- Updates to credits and copyright - Fixes a bug preventing learners from leveling up

4.3

June 11, 2022

- Practice and Test Fidel activities will say "show (the word)" and will give an example sentence where one exists when repeating the problem word. - In all Word Chart Practice activities, when the answer is marked as correct and there is a sentence in the answer box, pressing anywhere on the sentence will now play the entire sentence, rather than individual words. - Unselectable and disabled buttons are darker.

4.2

April 27, 2022

New in 4.2 - Fixed issue with scrolling in Word Charts Practice Touch Letters - Added new words and sentences New in 4.1 - Updated word lists - Fidel activities now take 12 signs up from 10 - Added "usual" and "azure" to Chart 10 - Disabled levels now look the way they should New in 4.0: - The content of the app is complete, covering all the sounds of English and most of their associated representations in print - New levels: Stage 3 Levels 4, 5, and 6 - New voice synthesizer with more accurate pronunciation of Stage 3 words and sentences - Better support for new and smaller iPad screen sizes - Dozens of refinements to the Word Charts activities and curricula - Hundreds of new words and sentences for existing levels - Fixed a bug where users resuming the app could get stuck in a loop logging in - Dozens of other bug fixes, performance improvements, and UI refinements

4.1

April 24, 2022

New in 4.1 - Updated word lists - Fidel activities now take 12 signs up from 10 - Added "usual" and "azure" to Chart 10 - Disabled levels now look the way they should New in 4.0: - The content of the app is complete, covering all the sounds of English and most of their associated representations in print - New levels: Stage 3 Levels 4, 5, and 6 - New voice synthesizer with more accurate pronunciation of Stage 3 words and sentences - Better support for new and smaller iPad screen sizes - Dozens of refinements to the Word Charts activities and curricula - Hundreds of new words and sentences for existing levels - Fixed a bug where users resuming the app could get stuck in a loop logging in - Dozens of other bug fixes, performance improvements, and UI refinements

4.0

April 14, 2022

- The content of the app is complete, covering all the sounds of English and most of their associated representations in print - New levels: Stage 3 Levels 4, 5, and 6 - New voice synthesizer with more accurate pronunciation of Stage 3 words and sentences - Better support for new and smaller iPad screen sizes - Dozens of refinements to the Word Charts activities and curricula - Hundreds of new words and sentences for existing levels - Fixed a bug where users resuming the app could get stuck in a loop logging in - Dozens of other bug fixes, performance improvements, and UI refinements

3.3

February 14, 2022

This version fixes a bug that did not allow students who passed the test for S2L1 to progress to S2L2.

3.2

January 26, 2022

- The Fidel activity will no longer sample words whose alternative pronunciations were already presented as questions. - Speech synthesis engine has refined pronunciations of some words

3.1

January 14, 2022

- Many bug fixes and performance improvements - Stage 3 content for Levels 1, 2, and 3, extending the content through Word Chart 8 - Completely revised test questions and the option to skip Stage 1 without passing the test for that level. - Fidel activities available on Stage 3 - Voice synthesizer to craft and hear aloud any combination of words in the Word Charts activities

3.0.4

April 20, 2021

This version contains some small fixes and updates: - Fix to mostly eliminate rare login issue. - Restore sentence "ten moms pass ten tests." - Update libraries and frameworks and fix small bugs.

3.0.3

March 19, 2021

This version fixes some rare bugs: - Restore missing sentence "Pam's sons sun on a mat." - Restore missing sentence "Must Pop pat Pat's pet pup?" - Fixes a bug in Test's Was It activity where words with apostrophes sometimes don't play. - Refine login flow that should prevent some login errors.

Description of iReadBetter

True or False: Children need someone to teach them how to read. True or False: The elements of written English are the 26 letters of the alphabet. True or False: Learning how to read means memorizing how thousands of words are spelled. True or False: Remembering a bunch of rules is essential to understanding phonics. True or False: “Reading” comprehension is essential for understanding. False is the correct answer to each of the above, and we have created an app that proves it! In fact, iReadBetter provides children with a fresh, new entry into the demands of written English. Back in the middle of the 20th century, a brilliant mathematician and educator, Dr. Caleb Gattegno, invented an approach to literacy, through which learners quickly become aware of five amazing facts: You can teach yourself how to read. The elements of written English are actually “signs,” which correspond to the forty or so spoken sounds of English, and those signs are often represented by surprising letters or combinations of letters. For example, you sound the /oo/ in flood like the /u/ in “up,” the /t/ in “action” like the /sh/ in “ship,” and the /ch/ in “chorus” like the /k/ in “kite.” By combining in various ways just a handful of “signs,” color-coded according to how you sound them (so, for example, the /t/ at the end of “past” is colored the same as the /ed/ at the end of “passed”), you can read and correctly spell almost a thousand words, with only a minimal need for memorization. By noticing consistencies and inconsistencies (e.g., “drove,” “cove” and “stove,” but not “move” or “love”), you can learn rapidly, while avoiding overly simplified and often misleading phonics rules. For instance, virtually all traditional phonics programs teach that there is a “short A” and a “long A,” when in fact there are no fewer than eleven ways in which that single letter can be sounded in written English, exemplified in the following sentence: All was dark as many warring hares raced around village swamps. Once accurate decoding is accompanied by the fluency and melody of a reader’s speech, “language” comprehension flows naturally from listening to the results. With the completed edition of iReadBetter, children everywhere have access the world’s first digital version of Gattegno’s full array of materials, techniques and activities. It gives them the opportunity to enter the world of reading and spelling with self-assurance and clarity about the true nature of the challenge.

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