Montessorium: Intro to Words Reviews – Page 4
4/5 rating based on 36 reviews. Read all reviews for Montessorium: Intro to Words for iPhone.
Montessorium: Intro to Words is paid iOS app published by Montessorium, LLC
Nice app but...
robogobo
Nice app but you REALLY need to split the alphabet at the top into two rows to eliminate the need to scroll back and forth!
Needs clearer sound
Anomonouse
I wish the sounds were more accurately represented ("b" says "b" not "buh," for example) but I do like that they say the word AND segment the word's sounds before the child selects letters to build it. Adding "uh" to every consonant makes learning to blend sounds difficult; the app itself reads "bed" as "buh-eh-duh." It'd be no small task to re-record the audio, but the app is not much use this way.
not intuitive
SweetOaks
You can only see about 8 letters, in alphabetical order, across the top of the screen, so the child has to scroll to the correct letter to find it. Then if the child accidentally drops it in the wrong place in the word he/she can't pick it up and correct the problem. Wasted 5$.
Unintuitive and buggy
Rh333333
Exercises are very hard to figure out. The Graphics are overlapped one on top of another and confusing. The touch screen interface has a lag...dragging items is confusing. Do not buy this...is my advice.
Horrible
DKguy
Not intuitive and has no sound. This is not a quality app that can be easily used by a child. This app should be withdrawn by the developer, it feels like a scam. Don't buy it. To the developer: give me my money back.
Fundamentally Flawed Approach
iPhone User 31666
The app has kids spell simple words, choosing letters from a list of all the letters in the alphabet. However, it treats vowel diagraphs (two vowels together that make a single sound) as if they were separate letters. These are all listed at the end of the the standard alphabet. So, when a child is asked to spell the word "boy" they can't choose the letters B-O-Y. Instead the have to first choose B then scroll all the way past the end of the normal alphabet list and find OY from a long list of diagraphs (AI, AY, OO, OI, OY, etc.). It might make sense to a linguist, but it's confusing for a child just learning to spell.