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This was my first experience with a learning app. I honestly wasn't sure what to expect. Since my son is dyslexic, learning can be quite challenging for him, but I decided to give a try. I have been genuinely pleased with it. Over time, my son had started to lose interest in learning because he gets discouraged easily, but this app has made such a positive difference for him. The exercises are varied, fun, and really engaging, and makes feel learning enjoyable. It has been wonderful to see his interest come back, and the app seems to work excellent.

It really works! My son loves the app and it has helped tremendously with teaching him how to read. I love that I get to be involved in the process so I can see the improvement in real time! I will be using this app when my younger son is of age. I cannot recommend it enough.

My daughter is really benefiting from this! As a first grade teacher I love the format and have been recommending this app to all of my friends! Some lessons are still hard for her but I'm happy to give her the previews and practice before her kindergarten teacher intros it.

My daughter is always excited to do reading. Very interactive and it makes her want to do better. Fun way to learn how to read

It is too good and very helpful and my son's reading habits have improved drastically after using this app.

It works! My son really enjoyed the books, and I love how each lesson builds on the one before it. The program is it easy to follow, and the books and games make it fun for him to practice what he’s learning.

My 5-year-old LOVES doing his "homework" on the app. For the most part, he is self-sufficient but we love to do it together so he can show me has learned!

Our daughter is ahead of her class. She has been using reading.com to gain early literacy skills for a few months now and the more consistently we complete lessons, the easier they are for her. Reading.com provides support and logically builds her skills to allow her to read the in-app books on her own.

Honestly it worked very well for my son! He is 4 years old and we are on level 108! He loves it but to be 100% honest once we got to around level 90 he was over reading the books.. he says they are to long but he is also 4 so I just started reading a page and he would but he still enjoys the stories just doesn’t want to read the whole book lol

I toke my 7 year old out of school because the classes where too big at 30 kids. He was not getting the lessons and did not receive good attention to his need of learning. He was struggling with reading and failing in multiple subjects because he could not read it to understand the instructions. I Started homeschooling, and this has been an essential tool to helping him read. He went from not reading a sentence to reading several with minimal struggle. Its a great app, very informative, interactive and my son enjoyed the characters and games that was available along with the printable worksheets. Thank you! I hope this helps as much as it did for my son blessings and love!

The app and program are very well thought out from design to lesson execution! It is so easy to open the app and start learning! My child begs for a reading lesson every day. My only advice is for parents of younger kids (we started the program at 4 years old) is to find other resources to reinforce what is learned on the app. It really helps to have something hands on and not just electronic for them to practice.

My daughter was struggling a little with her reading we tried reading.com and she loved it. It was fun and engaging she wanted to do some learning and felt so proud. My son, a preschooler was always watching and wanting to do it too so this year we started him and he is loving it and learning as well. It’s been an amazing tool to help the kids learn sounds and blending in a fun interactive way.

I’ve had a hard time in the past getting my active child to sit still and complete her homeschool language arts lessons. Not anymore with reading.com! Now she brings me her reading lessons and asks if we can do them. She’s learning quickly and it’s no longer a fight or a headache for me to try and catch her interest. I’m so happy we signed up and took a chance!

Just two months into my daughter’s 5 year old year, she is reading. I’m shocked. I had a few different apps for my boys when they were her age but non of them have compared to reading.com. The first time we came across spelling in the app, I jumped in to started sounding out the word slowly for her and she literally got frustrated with me and then proceeded to spell her first word on her own. We are now at level 25 after about a month and she asks to do it before we read books at night. Sometimes she flies through it and sometimes we have to take a break and start again the next day. Whatever we are doing, she is light years ahead of her classmates.

Good app to help kids learn or practice how to read.

This app has helped our 7 yr old read and feel confident about his reading abilities more than any other app or curriculum we’ve tried. The visual cues help him sound out words with ease. We LOVE their alphabet song and sing it often. I can’t recommend this app enough, whether you have a struggling reader or a little one that’s just starting out.

Reading.com has been such a big help in getting my 5 year old to learn his sounds and helping him start to read. I highly recommend this program to anyone wanting to help their children learn to read as an added bonus to what they may already be doing!

My son is learning ALOT, He’s only 3.5 years old and he has already started reading a few words and is getting better with sounding out words and we are only 1/3 of the way through.
The song is fun and upbeat and so far I love it.
What I don’t particularly care for is how long the books are, he did fine with the 4 pages, but by page 5/6 he is done almost everytime is a struggle to finish. I think if the books were shorter he’d be happy to complete it everyday. Also, I think spending more time on sight words, in some way, would be beneficial. But all in all, I love it, my
Son is absolutely learning to read before 4 years old and I’m so proud of him and so glad I decided to try reading.com. I would recommend to anyone.

We love reading.com! This program is amazing and I love that I get to be a part of the lessons I’m not just giving my kid an iPad I am actually getting to teach her. I cannot recommend this program enough!

Overall, I’ve been impressed. I am trained in the Orton-Gillingham methodology and have worked as a dyslexia specialist for the past 6 years, so I view reading programs through a different lens than most.

Some pros:
-includes phonological awareness
-includes review of previously taught concepts
-phoneme articulation is correct
-kids love the lessons

Some cons:
-initial phoneme isolation should never include a consonant blend as an example of the target phoneme but it does in this. For example, “dragon” for the letter D, “train” for T, etc. I can’t recall the exact examples, but I know that the program gives consonant blend examples instead of consonant-vowel which is the SOTR-aligned method.

-the letter “a” before a consonant M or N should be introduced as a nasalized sound. The M distorts the sound of the “a” in most American dialects. Most OG-based reading programs explicitly teach this before students blend am and an.

-sight words are memorized. We know from research that orthographic mapping and discussion of etymology is a better

Overall, I think it’s a good, basic program that could be improved with a few tweaks. My son IS learning to read. Why am I not teaching him myself? Because the program is much more fun than me!