READING MAGIC 2 Deluxe User Reviews

Name: READING MAGIC 2 Deluxe
Rating: 3 (3 reviews)

READING MAGIC 2 Deluxe

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Consonant Blend Helper

This app focuses on words that use consonant blends. The app uses about 300 words broken down into 23 categories. This app is all about showing how words are made up of sounds. This app shows how to construct words from sounds and how to deconstruct words into sounds. This app has three different reading games as advertised. The first game involves, what reading experts call blending. Children take separate individual sounds and blend them together into a single word. The second game is what reading experts call segmenting. Children take a word and break it down into its individual separate sounds. The third game is a straightforward reading activity. For both the reading and the blending games, the picture is hidden, which I really like. In my years of working with children on beginning reading skills, I have seen children relying a lot on picture guessing. This app helps children practice the basic reading skills with the pictures being used to help the children check their work, rather than distracting them into picture guessing. I like how the pictures will say what word they are when touched. This eliminates any confusion as to what the word is. This app has had an update to its interface since I first used it. The interface is nice and friendly. This app has helped my children build their word reading skills. It has helped them to understand the concept of consonant blends.

Terrific2s

10 years ago

Misleading

I was looking for an app to help my child with blends. All this app does is provide practice for individual sounds. For a child that already knows the sounds that letters make, this does help with blends. Also, the three sections of this app are all the same, despite being its own "category"--click the square, it makes a letter sound. I am mostly annoyed because I paid money for this. This app is not sophisticated enough to have to pay for it.

helicoptermomandiknowit

12 years ago

Response from developer

The instructions and directions for the app have been upgraded to avoid misunderstandings about what this app is trying to teach. Sounds are the building blocks of words. This app teaches children how to recognize the individual sounds within words and how to put them together to make words. This app focuses on blends. In reality, consonant blends are not actually blends but two sounds put together. Teaching a child lists of the "st" words is ineffective on several accounts. The biggest reason is that these two letters together make no unique nor different sounds. Teaching words with "sh" is different because these two letters together make a unique sound. Secondly, most of these lists introduce advanced spellings beyond the scope of the list lesson. For "st" words, state, star, stapler, and stay all are more advanced concepts than the blend "st" that they are learning. This app has three separate sections. The first section focuses on blending. The second section focuses on segmenting. The third section focuses on reading. These are the key steps to reading mastery. This app is simple in its delivery of advanced concepts that have been proven to help children become excellent readers.

Good

It's a good app for kids, I think it can be very useful, but it needs a better interface. It's very interactive.

Mocoloco76

14 years ago

excellent

I have purchased 4 paid apps and 3 free app of Preschool University and I completely satisfied with it. Very helpful education app!

KatherineloveTien

14 years ago

Good concept.

The concept of this app is superb. The approach is good, the app is well set out with very clear instructions. My reservation in giving this more stars is the clarity of the recordings. Some words do not sound particularly clear when replayed. This app would be truly enhanced if the words were written on screen, and there was the ability to replay a whole word as well as the broken word sound bites.

Bingodate

14 years ago

Response from developer

The instructions and directions for the app have been upgraded to avoid misunderstandings about what this app is trying to teach. The clarity of the recordings has been improved with the most recent updates. The word is not supposed to be on the screen for the first game until after the children have recognized the word. This is intentional and essential for children to not see the word at first so that they can practice blending the sounds of the word into the word. The word and picture appear after the child has blended the sounds together into a word. For the second game, the word must not be written on the screen because the child is spelling out the word auditorially. In the third game, the word is on the screen.

a very informative app

a very informative app. a good app for kids to learn the reading of words. this one concentrates on consonant blends, and there are many words included. but the interface is not very attractive, and I think some words are too complicated for kids.

ponhelen

14 years ago

Jdubya300

Very nice reading app. It really helps my young niece. It is well done.

Jdubya300

14 years ago

Great

This app is very good education tool that teach kids a lot of useful skills. Nice work!

Mioung

14 years ago

Another wonderful app

This is my second purchase. Those who like reading magic 1, this app will be their second choice. It's layout still the same, but their content are getting more advanced. I suggest to add some sound effect and explanation to those flash card. Beside in learning the correct pronunciation, children must appreciate the meaning of those words.

Deslee2012