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This app was incredibly instrumental in helping my daughter learn to read. We started at the end of Kindergarten when we noticed her having some struggles with sight word retention and blending sounds. In addition, she was resistant to support because she knew she was struggling and felt frustrated. This app changed the game for her! She enjoyed doing her lesson each day and she didn’t mind spending a few minutes each day practicing with the games. As a special ed teacher, I thought it would be easy to teach my daughter how to read, but it is very different when it is your own child struggling. I did my research on reading apps and programs and I found this app to be the best one out there. I appreciated getting the chance to do the daily lessons each day with my daughter. Knowing exactly what she was learning and how she was learning it, helped me know how to support her. The approach is rooted in the Science of Reading and that helped my daughter gain confidence as a reader. The app was adorable and engaging, but not overstimulating and gimmicky. It is well worth the price. I cannot recommend this app enough!!! My two pieces of advice…make sure you sit with your child each day to do this work together (it’s only 15-20 minutes a day) and then give them some independent time for the games. In addition, consistency is key! Be sure to keep up with it if you really want to see results!

I have a 5 year old and we are homeschooling. He’s kindergarten age right now and I was really nervous teaching him to read. I tried hooked on phonics, abc mouse, the good and beautiful, but none of these quite worked with us. I tried this program and we just finished lesson 30- he went from hardly knowing letter names and sounds to full blown reading! I am so proud of him! This program definitely is worth it. It’s paced just right, most of the lessons were just right for him. A couple harder ones we broke into a couple different days but he got it. The program only allows you to do one lesson per day (unless you, the parent, want to do more) and I like that. It’s enough so that they are learning, but not too much that they are being overwhelmed. It also doesn’t teach the letters in alphabetical order, rather it teaches them the most common sounds used first so that they are able to start putting words together and reading. The app itself is so easy to navigate and it’s very routine so you know what to do and about how much work/day it is. It is supposed to be parent led but at this age I wouldn’t want it any other way. It very simply helps me to teach my son to read. Us parents are very much capable to teach our kids but I just wanted a guide on how to first teach reading and this is just perfect for it. We keep track of all sight words and new letters that are introduced and him and I reinforce those before beginning our lessons. So yes this app is perfect, and yes it’s designed so that the parent is the one essentially teaching your child and that’s exactly what I was looking for.

My daughter just finished the program and I am so happy that she has a reading foundation and we can start practicing and building off of that. This program exceeded my expectations and helped me a lot as a parent to teach my child to read. Took us about 6 months to complete. We could have done it in 4 months but we took our time going through the lessons. I definitely recommend this program to all my friends. I think it’s a great tool especially right before they start kindergarten. I’ve seen comments about the alphabet song being annoying to everyone which I thought it was too because of the repetitiveness but I still made my daughter sit through it and to trust the process. It actually helped us a lot towards the end of the program especially when she would get overwhelmed by vowels. My daughter memorized the song so all I had to do if she would get stuck on a letter sound is say “O makes the sound like…” or “D makes the sound like…” and she would finish the rest. I would say the only thing that I thought was kind of pointless was the last 4 lessons when it was just review and not actually learning anything. We ended up doing all the 4 lessons in one day because my daughter was so antsy to cross the finish line. I think it would have been cool to have one last book that compiled all the characters and everything that was taught at the end of the program as a “finale book” Another thing I think would help is in the hungry cloud game they should have the new sounds as part of game. Like still have all the letters and sounds but also the new sounds like “ea” “ai” “oo” “oa”.. etc Overall the program was great!