Eggy Phonics
This is a great app for kids learning phonics but the sound has stopped. This needs fixing as the children find it difficult without hearing the word.
No sound!
How can you use a phonics app with no sound??? Useless
Good but sound not working
Good app but sound stopped working suddenly
Eggy phonics
My children like this app ,but my oldest has reached level 9 and it won't go past the first word cod ! Is there some way of getting around it ?
Sound not working
Please fix the sound - app is useless without it.
Great fun
Another great app from these guys! Engaging and fun, the kids don't even realise they are learning, they just think it is a great game!
Sound needs fixing no. 2
I agree the app looks great if only we could get sound.
Reading eggs
Won't go past level 7. It freezes up on the word net it won't let us go any further. So frustrating!
My niece LOVEs it!
Played is with my 5 yr old niece who wouldn't give my iPad back! She loved level 1 'at' words and said she is learning them in class. Definitely a must use phonics app, fun, engaging and kids love it!
Several good ideas, mixed with annoying flaws
My children enjoyed the app well enough, though I have been spoiled by the incredible production value of other apps and felt the graphics of this game were a bit lacking. That being said, the graphics are relatively insignificant. What would make this app far better would be increased control over the games via parent settings. Some things are just annoying: having a child identify a picture of a spoken word five times is repetitive and has nothing to with reading. Others are infuriating for a reading teacher such as myself: why must games (and here Eggy Phonics is not alone) persist in speaking the letter names of the letters as children spell words? Showing a picture of a CVC word, providing letter tiles (phoneme tiles) and three blank phoneme spaces to place said tiles is fantastic. It allows children to segment the word orally, think through which tiles belong in which spaces, etc. Telling them that they are looking at "see" "ay" "tee" just as they are working through the proper order of the SOUNDS /k/ /a/ /t/ is pointless and harmful to the process. The sounds are repeated back to the students once they have placed them in the proper order, but even here there are flaws: the letter "t" should have less of a vowel sound attached to it. It is impossible to eliminate it completely from an isolated phoneme or sound, but to call it "TUH" isn't necessary either. I've seen this done far better in other phonics apps. If the app designers must persist in calling the phoneme tiles by their letter names rather than phonetic sounds, at least give us the option to turn it off!
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