READING MAGIC User Reviews

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Great learning resource

This is phenomenal way to have your toddler sit down practice to learn his or her cvc words.

3 games for reading fun

This app helps children read short words, but more importantly it gives them practice blending and segmenting words. This is what makes it a superior app, as few apps help with these essential reading skills.

great app for blending segmenting and reading

This app focuses on blending segmenting and reading CVC words. It teaches these advanced concepts in a clear and friendly way for young children.

Solid Approaches to Learning to Read CVC Words

This app focuses on CVC words.
It separates the words by vowel categories.
It uses letter sounds and helps children with the letter sound association.On a certain level, this app would be a clearer presentation if it only had the reading part.
This app might be confusing to some, but it uses the two best approaches for building strong foundational reading skills-blending and segmenting. Experienced reading teachers know that these skills are very effective for building strong reading skills.
This app does a good job of helping children practice those skills. It has been helping my students become better readers. It also helps my students reinforce their letter sound associations. At times it uses unfamiliar words, but it never asks the user to identify such a word without an accompanying picture.
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Perfect for children to learn reading the right way!

This update is excellent, especially with the addition of great explainations of what blending and segmenting are and how important these are for building a firm foundation. Preschool U's apps are the only ones I found that actually teach children the proper way to learn to read. I love the updated interface and games. Keep up the good work!!!
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Used to be good

The most recent update took away the only useful stuff for my pre-k classroom that was available. Now it's pointless to have...deleting.

Valuable, but flawed for PreK-2 Instruction

Great app for phonemic awareness and phonics, but the words used are frequently not within a preschooler's listening or speaking vocabularies, which makes some of the items quite challenging and instruction ineffective. Even in this video, we see the reading of the word "hull" and then a picture of grain. How many preschoolers have heard or will use the word "hull" with any frequency? Updating this app with more appropriate words for PreK-2nd grade children would improve it's effectiveness.
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Response from developer

Thank you so much for your thoughtful feedback! We truly appreciate your insights as they help us improve our app for young learners. We want to share that since your review, our app has undergone two significant upgrades. These updates include enhancements that aim to better align with the vocabulary levels of preschoolers. While some programs utilize nonsense words to teach reading, we chose to focus on real, albeit less common, words. Our intention is to enrich children's vocabulary by introducing them to new terms in a fun and engaging way. Learning new words can be a valuable experience, helping to expand their language skills. We also want to emphasize that our app's auditory features ensure that children never have to guess the meaning of a word. The app will always provide clear audio guidance for each word, helping children connect the spoken word with its visual representation. In our development process, we used all the common words available in English that could be visually represented and fit the CVC word pattern. To provide a broader learning experience, we included some uncommon words as well. These uncommon words are conveniently placed in a separate tab, allowing parents and educators to choose whether to engage with them or focus solely on more familiar vocabulary. Thank you again for your feedback! Weโ€™re committed to continually improving our app to support the learning journey of every child.

good

i appreciate this app a lot. it helps my lil sister and its not join to replace traditional learning.

It's ok.

It's a good learning tool for kids. The layout is a bit dull, I think it could be more colorful. It's also very easy to use.

Good

Another good young child learning app from this developer, I recommend getting the paid version only 99 cents and worth it.

Excellent for preschoolers

This app offers a great selection of short vowel words in squares where they can blend the sounds and guess the word before looking at the picture to self check. I would like to see the letters pop up after the picture however to reinforce letter cues.

Nic

App is nicely made..it has different letters you can learn in words....rating would be higher, but letters did not show up in boxes...i thinks its a glitch, however it showed the picture and you could hear the sounds.

Response from developer

Thank you for your kind words about our app! Weโ€™re thrilled to hear that you appreciate the variety of letters and words available for learning. We also want to address your concern regarding the letters not appearing in the boxes. Since your review, we have implemented two major upgrades, and Iโ€™m happy to report that any glitches related to the letters have been fixed. The letters now show up clearly in the appropriate boxes, enhancing the overall user experience. Weโ€™re glad to know that the pictures and sounds are functioning well, as we believe these features are essential for engaging young learners. If you encounter any further issues, please donโ€™t hesitate to reach out to our support team; weโ€™re here to help! Thank you once again for your valuable feedback. Weโ€™re committed to making our app the best it can be for all users!

a good app that teaches kids to pronounce short vowels

a good app that teaches kids to pronounce short vowels. this free version contents enough examples. easy to use and useful.

good

This free version is very good tool fo help kids learn easily and in a fun way. The interface is a little bit dull but really worth trying!

Jdubya300

Great app to help young kids read. This is a realy nice free version.

Nice preview of the deluxe version

This is a free preview of the deluxe version, bought the deluxe one and it's pretty nice for kids

Great app

A great app for learning kids in a fun way with some awesome pictures and easy texts that give entertainment to them

Need to be considered for all parent

This app is quite a nice educational app. This is just a trial version. Although it's layout a bit dull, but it help children in their pronunciation skills. Price for upgrade version is quite reasonable too.

The app is a lot better

The newest version of the app is a lot better. I have not ran into the problems that have been reported about earlier versions.

It does what it says

I like this app. It's not going to replace traditional learning. Rather, it's a tool to help kids learn in a fun manner. No complaints about it yet. Will update if I find any problems.