Read a story on their own
This film shows a child reading a page of a ReadBorn story out loud: A snake can glide. The snake came to the lake. The word they are on lights up, and ReadBorn listens to each one. When glide trips them up, the app opens the word into sound boxes and plays its sounds one at a time, g, l, i, d, with the e silent, then hands the turn back. Your child reads glide and carries on to the end of the page. ReadBorn helps only when they get stuck, so your child learns on their own, and the picture fills with color when the page is read.
Transcript
Child: A snake can glidey? App: g, l, i, d. Child: glide. The snake came to the lake. App: Hooray! Hooray!
TRY IT AT HOME
Let your child read to ReadBorn
Your child reads out loud. ReadBorn listens and helps only when they get stuck.
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ReadBorn is an iPhone and iPad app that teaches children to read by phonics for ages 3 to 8 and up. The child sounds words out loud, the app listens with Apple's speech recognition and helps only when they get stuck, and it hatches a baby animal for every class the child finishes.