ABC Spelling - Spell & Phonics 4+

My grand daughter has been playing your appps since she was 18 months old. We started with popping the balloons and screen fireworks. She loves the chapters and proudly wear her Lucas and Ruby shirt. She has gone through most all of the apps now. It’s amazing how positive the characters are. She complements everyone including herself: “Good job.”. ” Try again.”
At 3 she can read all the 3 letter words and do some addition. Do you have plans to add higher level word(3-5 letters) ? Diagraphs (/ch/, /th/ would be great. I also love how we were able to adjust the picture cards to her needs. It would be great if we could do the same with reading vocabulary.

The only negative comment was about you sentence maker. It comes up with some weird sentences that don’t really make sense. These need to be more geared to the language levels of the children just like you do with ALL of your other games.

Thank you so much for being there and making such wonder, engaging and positive programs.
Cathy

I teach Kindergarten and I was surprised by the incorrect teaching techniques. I played the game for a short time and found that this program was teaching the blending of words incorrectly. For example, this program says the individual sounds of c-a-r, but blends the sounds together to say car. This is incorrect because the letter a does not make a sound when you read the word car since it is being “bossed” around by the letter r. Words with ar, er, ir, or, and ur are part of the “bossy r” family where the vowel is never heard. Therefore, words with these bossy r letters should never be taught by blending the individual sounds together of c-a-r the way they did in this program. It is misleading and doesn’t teach the child why suddenly they don’t hear the a sound in the word car. Also, the program sounds out g-e-m, using the g sound individually. However, when you read the word, the g sound becomes a j sound in order to say the word correctly. However, the program does not teach the child it suddenly changes from a g sound when read individually to a j sound when read as a word. Why.....because this program does not teach the soft vs. hard g sounds and what affects the change from a hard g sound to a sound g sound. My recommendation is the developer should have an educator look over their teaching techniques for accurate learning

My 5 year old son LOVES this game! It is helping him learn to read. He has always been ahead of his age group, but reading is one thing I can knot help him with. Thank you for offering my son and I a way to work together in a fun way. Thank you for making it ad free so he stays focused. We both appreciate this and will definitely be letting others in on this as a way of working with their children.