App is not fully functional
The app has no sound. I went to setting and the only option is for the sound preference for the “w” and “y” sound. I’d like a refund.
This app is very useful for phonics tutoring
I use this app with my students for word building and blending. Sometimes we play a board game and they get to build a word of my choice as a prize for a certain coloured square.
You can blend CBC, ccvc, cvcc, and then when they are ready use vowel digraph and consonant digraphs. It is great when the student has really had enough writing for the lesson but you still want to work on that sound or revise old ones with them. They enjoy picking the sounds.
It reinforces that concept that the code is constant and we just put the pieces of code together to make words. You can swap sounds any place in the word and see how the word changes.
I love all the other reading doctor apps (as do the kids when it's time to use them) and use them for a quick game at the end of my tutoring session as revision for the sounds we have covered. I also encourage kids to use them at home.
You can blend CBC, ccvc, cvcc, and then when they are ready use vowel digraph and consonant digraphs. It is great when the student has really had enough writing for the lesson but you still want to work on that sound or revise old ones with them. They enjoy picking the sounds.
It reinforces that concept that the code is constant and we just put the pieces of code together to make words. You can swap sounds any place in the word and see how the word changes.
I love all the other reading doctor apps (as do the kids when it's time to use them) and use them for a quick game at the end of my tutoring session as revision for the sounds we have covered. I also encourage kids to use them at home.
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A favourite!
I use this app with students everyday. We use it for constructing and decoding tricky words and phoneme manipulation activities. Recently, I've also treated the app as a 'spell-checker' - the voice output assists students to self-correct their spelling errors. Great for teaching the 'magic' 'e' rule, too, as it contains long vowel sounds in red and the silent 'e'. Refreshing to finally use an app with an Australian accent. It's become a necessity during a lot of my sessions, highly recommend this one!
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Great app for speech and reading
This app is great for teachers and speech pathologists alike. Students are really interested in watching the moving mouth produce the sounds. Helpful speech production and literacy.
Great for struggling readers
Great Tool. Use it with my students regularly. Especially with the kids who are struggling readers. Love the mouth!
Very useful!
Took me a while to realise just how useful this app is. Now I use it with my students every day. Thanks!
Fantastic App!
Fantastic App!
This app is fun and easy to use. Makes it easy to help my son with reading tricky words.
Well done and thanks!
This app is fun and easy to use. Makes it easy to help my son with reading tricky words.
Well done and thanks!
Excellent for speech-language pathologists
Love the Australian vowels and the usability of this app. A very flexible tool. Incredibly useful for working with children who have literacy difficulties. I can also see its potential for working with speech disorders. It would be great if there was a function to make a single sound tile (plus video) larger for teaching purposes. Overall, fantastic. Thank-you!
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Do your child a favour…get Word Builder!
A must for ALL children learning to read and write. Both my 3yo and 6yo can use this and they love it. Most importantly they are learning.
Teachers…we need this in our schools!!!
Teachers…we need this in our schools!!!
Word Builder
After a brief time of familiarization this app was easy to use, even for a technerd like me! Great teaching tool only wish it had been around 40 years ago, especially when I was in 1 teacher R-7 schools. Very pleasing to see the return of an effective and fun means of actually TEACHING reading and spelling skills again
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