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App power index: 100 (based on ranks around App Stores today)
Education
Developer: Spalding Education
Price: $ 3.99
Current version: 10,000+, last update: 2 years ago
First release : 01 Jan 1970
App size: 17 Mb
4.2 ( 5792 ratings )

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> 2.2k
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Welcome to The Spalding Method™ Phonograms app!NOTICE: UPON INSTALLING THIS MOBILE APPLICATION, YOU ARE AGREEING TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.This Spalding Phonograms app is designed for helping students learn the phonics connection between speech sounds and written symbols that represent those sounds (phonograms). Learning the phonograms is essential for accurate and automatic reading, writing, and spelling. Teaching all the sounds of the phonemes represented by an alphabet letter or combination of two, three, or four letters (phonograms) enables students to read, spell, and write high-frequency words quickly. Students who learn the phonograms well expand their vocabulary and are able to use effective and creative communication skills in writing. Critical thinking is involved in learning the appropriate phonogram placement within words for accurate spelling and for applying information learned during phonogram reviews to pronounce unfamiliar words. The Spalding Phonograms app is for students that need additional practice, including home schooling, ESL (English as a Second Language), ELL (English Language Learners), ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) students, and those with dyslexia or other learning disabilities. The school and home connection is encouraged through collaboration and communication with the teacher, parent, and student for practicing the phonograms appropriately and adequately. The Spalding Phonograms app aligns with the core reading foundational skills required by state and national standards that are most crucial to the development of early reading success and reading comprehension, including: • Phonemic awareness • Feature recognition • Letter recognition • Sound-symbol relationships (decoding)The Spalding Phonograms app provides the following options for all 87 phonograms. • Phonogram Introduction by selected group – The student sees the phonograms in order of instruction in "The Writing Road to Reading," listens to the teacher say the sound(s), and then says the sound(s). • Oral Phonogram Review – A random phonogram card is show, followed by a pause. The student says the sound(s) and then listens to check accuracy. • Written Phonogram Review –The student hears the phonogram sounds, followed by a pause; the student repeats the sound(s), listens for a cue, if needed, and then writes the phonogram on lined paper. The card is immediately shown so the student can check for accuracy. • Differentiated Practice – Specific phonograms (from all 87) can be selected that need more practice. These phonograms can then be practiced in Phonogram Introduction, Oral Phonogram Review, or Written Phonogram Review.Version 1.0.2 • Added “start popup” for all three instruction options • Updated pacing for Oral and Written Phonogram Review • Updated support for 7-inch and 10-inch Tablets • Updated app instructionsVersion 1.0.1 • Added support for 10-inch Tablets • Updated support for Phones and 7-inch TabletsVersion 1.0.0 • Initial production release • Support for Portrait and Landscape Orientation

The app needs improvement. Audio works but the delay is way to long from the time the phonograph shows and the sound. May need two modes but usually we use to review and my child doesn't see the letter just listening to the sound then writes the corresponding phonogram. Also a extra button to give a clue word like er = her would be beneficial.

Sound cut's out

Sound does not work most of the time. Usually after 5-8 letters it just goes silent. The idea is wonderful but truly it was a waste of my $4 as it does not work most of the time :(

The audio stops after a few letters. This is quite consistent. I've tried it on two phones - Nexus 5 and Nexus 5x, Nougat and Oreo, respectively. Neither worked. Hopefully they will fix it soon.

Loved it tell the last update now the sound only works if I hit the version 10.2 button for every letter.

The written assessment needs to allow us to manually see the letters like the Apple version.

The sound works for about 5 phonograms and then nothing. There isn't any distinguishing instruction between similar sounds as taught be teachers. A suggestion would be to list the phonograms alphabetically so they could be easier to find. The groupings in the app are not correlated to the way the kids learn them in school which is fine, but it takes forever to search all of the letters to select the ones I need.

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