This useful app is designed for parents who want to work with their children to develop reading comprehension and fluency. The app provides age-specific guidance of what parents should expect from their children's fluency and reading comprehension. Information includes the expected types of books with suggestions by genre, length of independent reading, and expected level of comprehension. Parents can watch videos of age-appropriate readers so they can gain a better perspective of their child's own level and set appropriate goals. Parents who are comfortable with their children's reading abilities and their school's support system will likely find this app unnecessary. However, homeschooling parents or parents concerned their child may not be receiving the necessary school support may find this app to be a uniquely helpful resource.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
• Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Has a free or trial version
• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
• Multiple users can save a profile
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can play without sound and not distract others
• Students can save work between sessions
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Abstract Reasoning
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently
• Attention
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently
• Organization
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently
• Reading Basics
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently
• Reading Comprehension
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently
• Reading Fluency
• Verbal Reasoning
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently
• Vocabulary
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently
• Working Memory
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently

This app will help parents of children ages 3-11 determine what developmental reading stages their children are in and learn how to support their growth and encourage their love of reading. The app provides videotaped conversations to use as models and also book lists and prompts that parents can use to help any child progress.