Reado Collection vs FirstPaint

The Reado Collection is composed of Reado, Reado Flash and Reado Fun; 3 great reading applications designed for children that are learning to read or children presenting with reading difficulties. The Reado Collection is great for speech-language pathologists, resource teachers, teachers and parents who wish to improve their students’ or child’s reading skills with entertaining and easy-to-use applications. ** Reado ** The Reado word bank contains over 9300 words that are subdivided in micro-graduated word lists specifically targeting reading objectives. The application allows you to give an explicit and systematic instruction in regard to grapheme-phoneme correspondences for short vowels, long vowels, vowel digraphs, diphthongs, r-controlled vowels, consonant digraphs, consonant blends, visual confusions (b-d & b-p) and contextual spelling rules (hard and soft C, hard and soft G). In a few clicks, choose your reading objective and set the reading level. With Reado, planning your “reading sessions” has never been faster or easier! Also, the children greatly appreciate the interactive interface and the entertaining games. ** Reado Flash ** With this entertaining quick and easy application, you benefit from the same Reado word bank, which contains over 9300 words classified by goals and levels of difficulty, but the words are presented in a flash reading mode. For an efficient use of the flash reading mode, the application settings allow you to set the speed of word presentation in milliseconds. It also offers progressive appearing and disappearing modes. Moreover, there is a manual mode which gives you the opportunity to adapt the speed to the child’s need. Reado Flash is an essential tool for all professionals using flash reading. ** Reado Fun ** Reado Fun is an extension of the Reado application, offering 4 new reinforcement games to spice up your work sessions using the Reado word lists. The Reado Collection application targets: • Short Vowels (CVC One-Syllable Words, One-Syllable Words Beginning with a Vowel, CVCC One-Syllable Words, L Blends One-Syllable Words, R Blends One-Syllable Words, S Blends One-Syllable Words, Two -Syllable Words Beginning with a Vowel, Two-Syllable Words, Three-Syllable Words Beginning with a vowel, Three-Syllable Words, L Blends Two or More Syllables, R Blends Two or More Syllables, S Blends Two or More Syllables) – Over 3120 words • Long Vowels (One Syllable Words (CVCe & VCe), One Syllable Words with Blends, Two-Syllable Words, Three-Syllable Words, Two or More Syllable Words with Blends) – Over 750 words • Vowel Digraphs ai/ay, au, aw, ea, ee, ei/ey, ie, oa, oo, ow (long o) & Diphthongs oi, oy, ou, ow, ue, ui (One-Syllable Words (CVVC & VVC), One-Syllable Words with Blends, Two or Three-Syllable Words, Two or Three-Syllable Words with Blends) – Over 1530 words • R-Controlled Vowels ir, er, ur, or, ar, our, oor, oar, air, are, ear, eer, ire (One-Syllable Words, One-Syllable Words with Blends, Two-Syllable Words, Three-Syllable Words, Two or Three-Syllable Words with Blends) – Over 1860 words • Consonant Digraphs ch, sh, wh, th (One-Syllable Words, Two-Syllable Words, Three-Syllable Words, Irregular Spelling for “ch” and “sh”) – Over 760 words • Hard and Soft C (One-Syllable Words, Two or Three-Syllable Words, Hard “C” where Soft “C” Expected, Soft “C” where Hard “C” Expected) – Over 170 words • Hard and Soft G (One-Syllable Words, Two or Three-Syllable Words, Hard “G” where Soft “G” Expected, Soft “G” where Hard “G” Expected) – Over 200 words • Four-syllable Words – Over 200 words • Visual Confusions b/d and b/p (One-Syllable Words, One-Syllable Words with Blends, Two or Three-Syllable Words, Two or Three-Syllable Words with Blends) – Over 660 words Available on iPad.

A simple to use, young learner's touch painting and coloring app from Sensory App House. FirstPaint contains no adverts and does not require a login or subscription. Sensory First Paint contains 4 groups of coloring templates, with 25 paintings to be completed, plus a blank canvas to paint freehand on. The paintings could also help with early word use and starting letter sound exploration. FirstPaint starts in fill mode, and you can change to freehand mode by pressing the top icon. There are two simple painting modes - freehand and tap to fill - and they can be combined to fill in your freehand paintings. You can also create a fun animation effect once the painting is completed. Pressing the Back arrow chooses the blank canvas, and each of the 4 modes of difficulty features a smaller brush. Switch Access and Adaptive XBox Controller: FirstPaint is an ideal first digital painting app, that can also be used with an XBox Controller or Microsoft Adaptive Controller with a joystick, the DPAD, inbuilt switch or suitable external switch. The joystick moves the onscreen cursor, A button selects/deselects painting and settings. FirstPaint is one of a series of Sensory painting and art apps, including Mandala, FunPainting and Coloco.