My son is 4 years old and learning to read. I showed him the application by spelling 5 words, and he managed to keep on going for another 45. He was engaged. Granted, I heard plenty of "car horn" noises indicating that he had picked the wrong letter, but he was familiarizing himself with the letters, the sounds, the vowls, the consonants, and the word.The picture doesn't always tell you what the word should be. There is a picture of an oil flask, which my son thought it was lemonade. There is a red curving picture, which I thought was something else other than to spell the word, red. I think it would be wonderful to say the word before spelling, so the audience knows what is expected to be spelt, and reinforce it afterwards.

My five-year-old and I are quite fond of this app. Too many of the flashcard, learn-to-read, learn-to-spell apps are only interactive insofar as the child flips to the next image by herself. There's nothing really pulling her attention directly to the word & how it's spelled. In this app, you get a single lovely image that fills the screen & a small jumble of letters. A voice names the image, which you are supposed to spell by touching the letters in the proper order. If you touch the wrong letter, there's a honking sound. When you touch the correct one, there's a chime & the letter pops to the bottom of the screen to help make a word. You cannot progress to the next image (& word) without spelling the word correctly. The design is quite ingenious, and very simple to navigate. Every image has been turned into a tiny puzzle of letters which must be reassembled into a word. The reward is the word restated as a solution & a new image if you want one. The general effect is not flashy, spectacular, or surprising, but a quiet & gratifying slow mastery of words.The update gives parents a whole screen full of options: whether to say the word before it is spelled, after it is spelled, play music, or make helpful sounds. Nice improvements.

He has played over and over. This app is educational. I take out one star because it is not easy to reset. I either have to remove and reinstall, or flip back 550 times to go back to the first card.

My daughter is in language therapy 2 hours a week. She struggles in a variety of areas - and i'm always on the lookout for something she might enjoy. I picked this up and handed it to her the other day. She did about 50 in that sitting - and asked to play in the car on the way to ST. Then today, she asked to play on my Touch - and had to start over. She wasn't overly excited about that aspect - but played for about 30 minutes! (229 words!) Thank you for this App, that she wanted to continue ever as the words are getting tougher is a miracle!