Word Wizard for Kids School Ed App Reviews

My kids (3 and 5) cannot write yet but this app has really helped them to realized the different sounds of the letters. Very nice to be able to configure the accents too. Im a very big fan of LEscapadou apps, they make learning become so fun!

What a wonderful app. Having grown up in the sixties and learning phonics, I believe this app will help my grand children to learn language.

This is useful for both my 5 year old and my 3 year old. Great concept!

What We Liked: Every homeschooling family with young children has at least one set of magnetic alphabet letters or tiles. Keeping track of these letters, particularly with toddlers in the house can be quite tricky, so Word Wizard seemed like an answer to prayer for me. It is so much more than a magnetic letter set though! The unique text to speech mechanism allows children to both freely play with letter combinations and to practice building meaningful words in structured spelling practice. This app has huge potential if you are teaching with phonics – you can sit down with a child and segment out simple words together, and explain more complex spelling rules as your child grows by showing how the sound of the word changes as new letters are added. I love that you can create your own customized spelling list as well. My daughter loves the animation screen and is very motivated to work through a few lists of ten words each so that she can enjoy different animations that she can draw and play with when she is done. The dictation (the app asking your child to spell a word and then having them build it) approach to spelling is incredibly effective and time-tested. This is a truly innovative, new tech way to use this technique with your children and keep them interested in the entire spelling/word creation process. What We Didn’t Like: This app would be even more incredible if it included some statistics, tracking, and reporting functions that would let you have multiple children using the app whose spelling results it would keep track of as each list is completed. As it is, you have to assign a list, and then hope you can get a hold of the results screen before your child dives into the animated reward segment of the app. My daughter did mention that the voice is a bit unclear at times. Computer speech generation has come a LONG way, but you can tell it’s still computer generated and a little bit off. Overall: Throw your remaining motley crew of alphabet magnets away – Word Wizard is here! Whether you are teaching the alphabet, spelling, or reading with phonics, Word Wizard is an app you should definitely add to your list of must-haves for the grade school years. Disclosure: I received a promo code to download this app.

This app is great! I bought it for my 8 year old, who has disabilities, but its been AWESOME for my typically developing 5 year old as well. I LOVE that you can have the letters "say" either their phonetic sound or their letter name. Both my girls love making silly phrases and hearing them read aloud. Sometimes when the girls arent listening well, I type in a message and play it to them to get their attention. Great app. PS: weve also had fun with this app in school as a really fast alternative voice for my older girl. She doesnt speak, and its really quick and easy to simply put a few word choices into the top and let her choose a word to respond with. Great reinforcement for literacy and just a wonderful app.

My students in special education love this application!

I use this app in my classroom to have students spell words, they are very motivated to use it and I like that the letters are phonetically spoken.

I just tried this with my 6 yr old son. I love the fact that I can create my own lists of words so that he will be able to practice his words for his weekly spelling tests. You can also put the letters into qwerty, which should help with his typing skills! It might receive the final star as We work more with the program.

My kids love it, my 5 yr old uses the built in lists, my older ones put in their spelling words from school to work on them. Its great!

Love this app. We homeschool so I use this with All About Spelling and All About Reading curriculum

This app is so much fun my son enjoy to moved the letter around and tries to figure things out . It is an excellent app to have to learn to put word together

This app is perfect for spelling practise and just playing around.

I absolutely love this app for spelling test help wi my daughter, and I love that I can import my own lists. One down side is that the words are not always pronounced as they should be, but Im there to help correct it. We love the start and hearts and playful interaction afterwards. We also love the crossword app. Great purchase and definitely worth it!

Recently purchased to add to my iPad Learning Centres for Language Arts Enrichment. It is a great app and popular with students too! Unique features make this a must buy for parents or teachers! Customer service was wonderful by company when I was originally looking for a new app to add to my collection.

Its a great app for 5-year children! Thank you!

I have been a speech pathologist for over 30 years and am always looking for new ways to help non-vocal clients communicate. One young man would only use his alphabet board with his father because he didnt find that others were patient enough. He spelled out, "THEY DONT THINK I CAN TALK I CAN TALK I AM SMART" With WordWizard he can take as much time as he needs, then press Talk! My only suggestions to improve the app: 1. Move the Talk button so clients with fine-motor issues dont keep hitting Settings. 2. The Space key in Qwerty is great but also needed in ABCD layout. 3. Provide a way to try other layouts, e.g., for clients with better vertical than horizontal scanning ABCDEFG HIJKLMN OPQRSTU VWXYZ Thanks for a great app, Ross

This is exactly what I was for to help my son.

We are just beginning to use this app for its intended purposes, as we have spent a good deal of time just playing with the movable alphabet screen. My entire family enjoys creating messages for each other for fun. My daughter, who is using this for spelling is delighted by the animations that tell her when shes correct, and I like the simplicity of the layout. It is colorful, but not too busy. In addition to the many other assets of this app mentioned in other reviews, I must add that I have had a completely positive interaction with the developer. I had a few questions which he quickly and thoroughly answered.

This app is great for helping my kindergartener learn how to spell and read words that she doesnt know. It gives her a bit of independence where she doesnt have to ask daddy for help every time she gets stuck. She can just type in the word and listen to its pronunciation. This enables me to get other things done around the house. Awesome!!!

LEscapadou is one of the best app developers out there. If they have created it, it should be 5 stars, and this app is no exception. I love that it really teaches kids how letter sounds go together. The interaction after a few correct answers is also wonderful. The ability for parents to work with the "settings" is fantastic. Overall, I LOVE THIS APP for my kids to learn spelling!