2 App Reviews - Starfall Learn to Read and Reading Train
--> By: Ryan Keefe , EC-SEAT Scholar Starfall Learn to Read by Starfall Education This app is a good straightforward app for working primarily with short and long vowels. It lacks the excitement of music and graphics that some apps have, but it definitely helps a student work on their vowels and better understanding their place in words. Through short stories the short and long versions of vowels are shown for students to hear and read. An additional piece that I liked was the ability for a child to work with phonics and chunking such as oa, ar, or, er, ir, etc. Students are allowed to take this concept further with a game that allows them to match words based off a picture. The app will show the child a picture and the last letters of the word, and the child then needs to sound out the word, and figure out which letter starts the word. Many special education students have great difficulty with literacy and reading. With the motivational factor, and the s...