Catchy Words AR 4+

Awesome potential

This has so much potential for elementary classroom teachers. I wish there was a way to make a word list that would be used so that students could practice sight words and spelling words independently. Also, I feel like they should be able to see the word prior to it being jumbled up so they know the goal. Can’t wait to see what the future holds for this app!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for such a positive feedback, Karamia25! We have just released a new version of the app that supports adding your own word list. We would love to get any feedback on the feature.

We discussed showing the word prior to being jumbled, but chose to leave it this way so it's more fun and challenging. We may come back to this decision and maybe introduce a few settings based on the feedback we received over the years.

Awesomely Impractical

I am a dyslexia specialist and I’m constantly seeking new ways to help my kids learn to read and spell, especially under distance learning circumstances. Curious, I tested this app out myself. IMPOSSIBLE. Most letters I ‘caught’ were at such bizarre angles and kept morphing even less recognizably that even I had no idea what they were at some points. It also doesn’t tell you what word you’re supposed to spell; it starts out with the letters of a word scrambled into a bubble and then you “pop” them and they fly around the room. Catching them is ridiculous and often impossible, and fitting the letters into the tiny, oddly-placed boxes is actually impossible at times because the angles are so problematic. Even if I could more easily catch the letters and put them in the boxes, the player still has no idea what word s/he’s supposed to spell. I was REALLY excited about this for my hyperactive, dyslexic, private student, but there’s no way he would even want to finish catching the letters because it’s so maddening. And if he did put all the letters in the boxes, he wouldn’t be able to unscramble them to create a word. I was so stoked, but now I’m really disappointed. This could’ve been so cool.

Catchy

It will be great if we can put our own words. That way teachers can play it with the students for spelling. Make it available also in Spanish.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback, Copula. We have just released an update that supports adding your own word list, we really hope you like it!

The app supports Spanish, but at the moment you need to set your device language to Spanish. We are looking into this and may add a setting to switch language in the application.