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Great app for spelling
My son's teacher uses this for her class spelling. It has enabled me and my son to work at a pace that is right for him. It is fun for him to do and easy for me to keep track of his lists and scores. Some changes were made lateely that took away how I was able to keep his test score next to his list and I emailed the programmer and he changed the program within days back to what worked for me. I was very happy and excited about that! It's wonderful to have people developing apps who care and about who uses them and how it works for them. We are very happy with this app! definitly worth it!Show lesspuppysmama
My child loves this and I love how educational it is
My child will start playing this and will ask me many times how to spell a certain word just to hear it speak it out loud. It's great, especially the developer. I asked for the ability to add custom filtered words and they added it! But, that wasn't all, they added some more really great features which make it the best free spelling and phonetic game I've seen. I really appreciate the work put into this and for listening to my requests.
Well worth the money.Show lessiPhoneZC
Awesome App
What We Liked:
Every homeschooling family with young children has at least one set of magnetic alphabet letters or tiles. Keeping track of these letters, particularly with toddlers in the house can be quite tricky, so Word Wizard seemed like an answer to prayer for me. It is so much more than a magnetic letter set though!
The unique text to speech mechanism allows children to both freely play with letter combinations and to practice building meaningful words in structured spelling practice.
This app has huge potential if you are teaching with phonics – you can sit down with a child and segment out simple words together, and explain more complex spelling rules as your child grows by showing how the sound of the word changes as new letters are added. I love that you can create your own customized spelling list as well.
My daughter loves the animation screen and is very motivated to work through a few lists of ten words each so that she can enjoy different animations that she can draw and play with when she is done.
The dictation (the app asking your child to spell a word and then having them build it) approach to spelling is incredibly effective and time-tested. This is a truly innovative, new tech way to use this technique with your children and keep them interested in the entire spelling/word creation process.
What We Didn’t Like:
This app would be even more incredible if it included some statistics, tracking, and reporting functions that would let you have multiple children using the app whose spelling results it would keep track of as each list is completed. As it is, you have to assign a list, and then hope you can get a hold of the results screen before your child dives into the animated reward segment of the app. My daughter did mention that the voice is a bit unclear at times. Computer speech generation has come a LONG way, but you can tell it’s still computer generated and a little bit off.
Overall:
Throw your remaining motley crew of alphabet magnets away – Word Wizard is here! Whether you are teaching the alphabet, spelling, or reading with phonics, Word Wizard is an app you should definitely add to your list of must-haves for the grade school years.
Disclosure: I received a promo code to download this app.Show lessAppsforhomeschooling.com
Great app!
As a special education teacher teaching multiple grade levels, I appreciate any app that can be modified for students with different levels of instruction. I think the free play with letters is great. I also like that I can customize it with many different spelling lists. The developer is also very responsive to suggestions. When I emailed telling him that cat sounded like can't, he fixed the problem and emailed me directly letting me know that the problem had been fixed. I sure that future updates will only add to the usefulness of this app. Educational and fun! You can't get better than that.Show lessGayle451
Great concept
This is useful for both my 5 year old and my 3 year old. Great concept!Rockprincessmama
Excellent little program
I use it with my English learning class and it is effective. The app has a lot of potential as well and I will be emailing them with some ideas.
Great job and thanks!greatapplovers
Lots of potential, but major flaws
I love that the spelling lists are customizable, so you can use this program with whatever words you need. I also prefer the "paper" background to the swirly colors, though more options in future updates would be welcome.
Some thoughts:
1) Since many Montessori folks will be flocking to this app, perhaps the option to have consonants in red and vowels in blue (or even consonants in black, vowels in blue or red) could be added, as this is an equally frequent color coding.
2) I also own the Montessori crosswords, and though it seems to be their thing (they even have an app devoted to it), the psychedelic stars/flowers/swirly things when a word is spelled correctly are super annoying. Bare minimum I'd love an option to shorten it, but preferably I'd love to have the option to make it disappear.
3) The speech functions need serious help. Some of the pronunciations are awful.Show lessjmmarkov
Fun educational tool
It's a great tool for teaching spelling and pronunciation. We play the word games with our four year old son and we all enjoy it. He can read pretty well and he is learning to spell without even realizing it. When I first bought the App, there was no speaking voice. I sent an email to the company and got immediate response with instruction to solve the problem. I strongly recommend.Show lessHoneyshark
Had lots of fun with this one
My whole family loves this app. We enjoyed using it to play with words and zip different sounds in and out. The kids also enjoyed being able to create a sentence and then give it a spooky voice (you can change the speed and tone of the voice and its accent). They then left it at various locations round the house to spook people. Lots of laughter and learning going on here. I can see it being useful whenever we want to discuss how a word is spelt for just talking through the sounds.Show lessCarrot Guy
Almost Perfect !
There is an amazing amount packed into this very-reasonably priced application - including options for the full use of phonics and English accent and also the ability to add your own word lists. A few of the pronunciations are a bit weird (eg. up, tsunami), but I guess that is down to computer-generated pronunciation system - which has many advantages overall. I think it's probably the best early school years application I've come across.Show lessPhysik
