Spelling Expert Light vs Reado Collection

Developed with students and teachers, this versatile app is used to improve spelling skills and to learn new words in foreign languages. The clear design and the simple structure of the program help to progress efficiently. The words you wish to exercise with are to be entered first. The app provides eight different exercises to learn the entered words. These include drag& drop exercises with letters, dictation, or recognizing the word in various forms (mirrored, with missing letter, partially obscured). These exercises vary in difficulty. Points are awarded to the words when the correct answer is entered, according to the difficulty of the exercise. Once a word has been awarded 100 points, it is accepted as „learned“, and removed from the active list of words. The light version is limited to 2 lists with a maximum of 10 words. With in App Purchase you can add the following features: Multiple lists of words can be defined to allow several students to exercise with the same device, or to make various lists of words according to subjects / languages. Unlimited number of words for each list. Password protection allows a teacher to observe the student‘s progress and requires a password to delete unlearned words.

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.