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August 31, 2014
Great app for phonics and early reading.
Overall, I think this is a good app to help young students work on phonics. However, it is generally good practice for an adult to sit with a child as they explore apps, and this app is no exception. The app is simple but effective, and I almost expected a bit more for the $3.99 price. If the developers could make the app a bit more exciting, perhaps with animation, that might improve engagement. Also, it could be the speaker on my device (Nexus 7 tablet), but with one or two sounds/letters, the voice was a bit unclear. For example, the short "a", as in cat, sounded very close to a short "e", as in egg. Once again, this provided an opportunity for my son and I to talk about the similarities between these two sounds, but for a paid app, these types of things should be cleaned up.
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