# Making Words Kindergarten and First Grade — user reviews

> 7 indexed App Store user reviews of Making Words Kindergarten and First Grade by Tapfun Inc., rated 2.20/5 from 10 ratings.

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- Rating breakdown: 5★ 2 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 6

## Most critical reviews (7 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Scam

*2023-06-29*

This app is a scam. The sound doesn’t work no matter what you do. Save your money

### 1/5 — Disappointed

*2022-02-17, version 2.0*

I am a reading teacher and thought this might be good to use with some students. 
I opened up the first free game to try it out. The letter B is pronounced /bu/ instead of a clipped b sound.Children that learn /bu/ as the sound of b often add a u when spelling.
I went onto the second free game. It asked me to spell yam then it added a blank in front of the word yam and asked me to spell plam. P was not even a choice of letters. Because there was not a correct way to spell this nonsense word the game was stuck at that point.
I also read in other reviews that there are other sounds that are not pronounced correctly.
Based on the sampling I had and what other reviewers say, this would not be good for a child who is struggling with reading it; would only add to the confusion. Young children who are just learning would learn things incorrectly.

### 1/5 — No Sound

*2021-06-08, version 2.0*

Unfortunately there is no sound, which is really not helpful in a “making words” app. My children don’t know what word specifically they want him/her to write.

### 1/5 — Never loaded; won't delete

*2016-09-13, version 2.0*

This app just sits on my screen and says waiting. It has been this way for months. I tried to delete it, but it won't even let me do that. It's very disappointing. It looks like a good resource, but it doesn't do much good if I can't get it on the iPad. 😕

### 3/5 — Pronunciation of "end" confusing

*2015-12-09, version 1.11*

I got this app to work with students with dyslexia who need systematic phonics training. I like the app, but was disappointed with the pronunciation of word families that start with the letter "e". They sound more like short i than short e. This will be confusing for my learners. Maybe it's a regional thing. I am from the Northeast. I wonder if it would be possible to give a choice for the reader's voice in a future update. That would be great!

### 4/5 — No nonsense accessible method of helping kids see chunks in words.

*2020-02-09, version 2.0*

No nonsense accessible method of helping kids see chunks in words.  Just wish it went beyond 50

### 4/5 — Great complement to Making Words and Systematic Sequential Phonics

*2016-01-15, version 1.11*

Our child has a disability related to reading and auditory processing.  This app is a much better word study approach than Words Their Way type word sorts because it actively gets the student involved in seeing how changing 1 or 2 letters changes the word and focuses on rhyming words, not just those with the same ending consonants.

I hope Tapfun will add exercises to use words in sentences and add a lower male voice.  For kids with fluid in the ear or other hearing issues, lower frequencies can sometimes be heard and processed better than higher frequency voices.  I sometimes find my son cannot recognize the word if read by the app but if I repeat it, he has no problem.  Slower enunciation with greater emphasis of blended letters like “SS-PP-LL-A-TT” if the child hits the repeat sound button will make it easier for kids with hearing/auditory processing issues to use it independently.

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