Read for Rewards

Spelling. Photograph the list your child's teacher sent home, and the app reads it out for them to write down. - The word is said, then used in a sentence, then said again — the way a teacher dictates. "Their" and "there" sound the same on their own, so the sentence is what makes it a question. - Your phone's own voice, in your own accent. No recording is made and no sound leaves the phone. The sentences are written once, when the list is scanned, and kept there — so every sitting after that needs no signal. - A point for every word spelled right. - Words come back until they are known: three times right, on three different days, and a word is learned and stops being asked. - The ones missed today can be practised straight away. Practice does not earn points — the answer has just been shown — but it is how a word gets to tomorrow. - Your shelf: the books already read, with the lists still to learn sitting in front of them. - Misread words are flagged before anybody is tested on them, and can be corrected by hand. A camera that turns "aisle" into "aiste" would otherwise teach the wrong spelling. - Where English differs, the app offers the spelling used where you are: "emphasize" becomes "emphasise" if you asked for it.