Challenging for young kids but good for older readers
To use this app you must take an image of the page you are reading. My kids found this difficult and they were almost never clear. You have to type the word from the box you select no matter what so I am not quite sure the point of the photograph. It doesn't know he word on the page you have to tell it. I do like how it slowly sounds he words out and breaks them down. Different colors are used to help show he different parts of the word. The words are saved and the list can be emailed so adults can track a students progress. I think this app is intended for older children who are good readers and just don't know maybe one or two words per page. I was hoping it would work for my budding reader but it requires to much I put from him with knowing very few words. Will save for later though
I tried out this app and can see its use to help readers when they come to a word they don't know. I like how it can color chunk out parts of words for older readers. I found typing in the word was the best way to use this. When I took a picture and put a box around it, I still had to type the word in, so that was disappointing. I can also see using this as part of a phonics lesson in small groups of beginning readers.
Found this gem of an app. Just wish I found it sooner!
Can’t believe there is no recent review of this great app. I hope even more that the creators continue to develop it. With the last two years especially, reading and speech have been impacted. This is such a wonderful tool that empowers them to figure it out or click the “teach me”. We used the option type your own word option when coming across a word they didn’t understand. So the act of typing helps link the letter to sound recognition as well as the wonderfully sounded out words. Please please please keep adding to the library. Going to pass this app along to others.
We downloaded the app and the colors are very vibrant and welcoming. When we tried using the "teach me" button initially it was not clear that we had to use our word card, once we figured we need to use a word card to get a word to type in we were not able to see the word card because it was off to the left side of the screen and we were on able to move it to the center to read the words. It was great to type in the one word we could see (all) and hear the iPad voice sound out the letters and then teach us how to say that word
Having just downloaded this app and tried it out, I think that it will be a useful tool for improving my son's reading skills. He loves to learn, but having Down syndrome increases the degree of challenge he faces. I look forward to trying this app with him. My wife or I will have to work with him at first, but I think that he will enjoy using this app to learn new words and to practice words he knows already.
This app is fun and colorful. However, we found it difficult as you have to take a picture of the page you want to use. Then, you have to type the word you need help with. It does sound out the words great and my daughter was able to follow along. So, as long as you know you have to type in the words, it works great.
My son has autism and is just getting his words... this is that extra bit of help he needs sounding out new words! Great idea! Love that after working with him a little, he will be able to work on photos of his reading pages independently. He loves not having to ask me all the time!
This appears to be a very helpful aid to allow children to read more independently. It will also help a child to learn to sound out words. I plan to not only use this app for my children, but in my classrooms. Thank You to (A4CWSN) Apps 4 Children With Special Needs for the heads up that this app was going for no charge.
It is not quite what I was hoping for. I was hoping that the kids could just click on a word and it would sound it out, but they have to type the word into another portion of the app. This would not work for my eight year who is impatient and tends to guess. I do like the reading assists that they can use to avoid distractions.
This is a great app for any special needs children as well as any beginning readers out there my kids have taken pics of multiple pages of books we have at home so the app will read their favorite books to them... I love this app!!
I love this idea! The whole idea of a machine can appeal to lots of little ones! With my son with autism, I feel like the story length would have to be minimal to maintain his attention span after taking the picture, searching and spelling the word. I do love the capability to send to list of struggling words to the parent or teacher!
This app seems like it is very helpful for young kids just getting the hang of sounds and for older kids needing help with complex words. It is easy to maneuver around this app
A great device to help children read difficult words!
I'm really impressed with this app. I never knew this existed and I definitely plan to use this with my own son who struggles to read. I'll then take it to school for my first graders!
Unfortunately it doesn't have knowledge of a lot of kids names when you type them. It also kept saying error when we tried to read the word we took a picture of. I think this will be a great app once they work out the bugs.
I just downloaded this app for my nonspeaking child with apraxia and autism spectrum disorder. I cannot wait to try it with her today! I have not found another app like this. Consider downloading it!
This will be great for someone special to me. Recovering from a stroke - she is having difficulty sounding out words. I am excited to try The Sounding Out Machine with her. Thank you.
I think this will be very helpful with my students that struggle with words when they are reading. This will encourage some independence on figuring out how to pronounce the word.
My son has dyslexia and struggles with word phonics. So far I am impressed with this app and I hope with continued use my son will learn to sound words out on his own.
This app worked very well for difficult words for kids. It showed them how to send it out and also showed them how to pronounce it once they did send it out. What a great way to learn! I highly recommend this app.
The Sounding Out Machine is an Assistive Reading Device. It helps children focus on challenging words in their texts, and then models how to sound out those words. Teachers love to sit next to students and listen to them read. They model how to chunk words, break them into syllables and use phonics skills to figure them out. But teachers don't have enough time to sit with all their students as much as they would like. The Sounding Out Machine does for students what a teacher would do if I she were sitting next to them! Children use the Word Window to isolate and enlarge a difficult word. Then, just like a teacher sitting next to her students, The Sounding Out Machine models how to chunk the word into syllables and use phonics skills to blend the phonemes together and sound out the word. Children can use their own digital word card to practice and become independent. STUDENTS WHO BENEFIT •Students who need modeling in chunking words and using phonics strategies to sound them out. •Students who report their book page looks like a "sea of words" - the Word Window helps them focus in on challenging words. •Students who have difficulty coordinating an index card on a book page. •Students who prefer reading on a screen. MODES •Camera mode - take a snapshot of the book page. •Library mode - load in page snapshots from the photo library. •Typing mode - type in challenging words. TRACKING STUDENT WORK Teachers love the way The Sounding Out Machine emails a report of students' challenging words. They can use this list for instruction or for creating personal spelling lists for their students. NO ROOT WORDS NEEDED Figuring out the root of a word in order to use a dictionary can bog down many young readers. So The Sounding Out Machine allows children to submit a word in many forms, such as "reply," "replies," "replied" or "replying." This allows them to quickly continue with their reading work instead of getting stuck. CUSTOMIZATION Children who need extra support can use a digital card or marker to track the text as they read, in the same way they might use an index card to focus on a line of text. This can be customized in many ways. There are many color choices for word cards, and Shared Reading mode allows children to set a small pointer at the end of each line, just as they might see during a Shared Reading lesson. The keyboard is also customizable, including a regular (qwerty) keyboard or an ABC-order option. VARIETY OF PHONICS MODELS The app supports various phonics models, including Blended or Synthetic phonics. DICTIONARY The app has an extensive dictionary of over 80,000 words, including multiple forms for each root, ("reply" "replies" "replying") and names ("Huggins," "Lorax"). We will continue to expand the dictionary in future updates, so be sure to let us know if you discover a word that needs to be included!
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