First Sight Words Professional Reviews

Extremely basic, Confusing graphics

Quarkmonkey22341

This is an extremely basic program and could have been designed better to promote spelling. Students are presented with correctly spelled word at the top of the page and scrambled letter tiles which they drag and drop onto the word. So it’s better for letter recognition than a child learning how to sound out syllables and improve their spelling. Also, the illustrations are extremely plain and oftentimes confusing. For example, the word WERE is illustrated by a watch, a plus symbol, the letter “S”, and an arrow. We had no idea what this meant. There were quite a few images that were very awkward and caused my students to get hung up on the indecipherable art or the strangeness of the art, like a soldier removing a giant snail from a cookie jar for the word TAKE. This would be fine as a free app to use once or twice with a pre-schooler interested in playing with letters, but we didn’t find it worth the $10 price at all, and regret the purchase.

Please add more words

Hanktheduke

All words Pre primer Primer Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Nouns

Great

cassglass321

Say hi

Learning touch llc

cassglass321

First sight words professional Dolch words

Disappointed

Mom2Amanu

My son has autism and really likes First Words Deluxe from which he's learnt a lot of spelling. I just purchased this App for him to learn the spelling of more abstract words. I am baffled by the pictures used for some words because my son will take that word to mean the picture portrayed. For example, "a" shows a cone, the words 'is" , "am" and "be" all show a picture of someone holding a skull (???), the word "and" shows a picture of interlocking tubes on the underside of a train (??), the word "so" has a picture of someone straightening his tie, the word "as" shows a scale etc. Granted it's difficult to represent these words in pictures & I don't have suggestions for what visuals to use but surely the developers could do their homework and come up with better options or use no pictures rather than confuse kids. My son hasn't seen this App yet & I probably will delete it rather than confuse him since he takes things very literally. There really should have been a free Lite version. Definitely NOT worth the 10 bucks. Another annoying thing both on this app & the Deluxe one: To go back or forward, you have to touch the home button or forward arrow 1x then the icon moves to the middle of the page and you have to press it AGAIN to go where you want. Redundant.

Great for kids using unity AAC!

jwiks

Still needs some extra features, but its a great way to learn the icons and sequences! Also i like that you can choose grade level. It would be helpful for kids with more motor involvement if they didn't have to drag the letters to spell, maybe just tap them in order.