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READING MAGIC for Schools

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Overview

Rating:
4.40
(9)
Version:
3.7
Last updated: 2026-07-08
Ranking
#354,036 52
Overall

Features & Capabilities

Master early reading. Huge update! Experience rock-solid performance fixes, new audio blending speeds, and expanded games built on Science of Reading and UFLI guidelines.

Unlock the Magic of Reading with READING MAGIC 1!

Transform your child into a confident reader with READING MAGIC 1! This app makes learning to read an exciting adventure with interactive activities focused on short-vowel words, specifically CVC (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant) words.

Meticulously designed to provide an advanced boost to your child’s phonemic awareness, this app combines three foundational pillars of literacy science into one powerful, interactive ecosystem: Blending (Listening), Segmenting (Speaking), and Decoding (Reading). Grounded firmly in Science of Reading principles and utilizing University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI) guidelines, READING MAGIC provides specific, precise training with extensive repetitions to help young brains bridge the gap between spoken sound units and complete words.

IDEAL FOR BOTH BEGINNING PRE-READERS AND STRUGGLING READERS

For Beginning Pre-Readers: A stress-free launchpad. By practicing words through pure sound sequences first, your child masters the internal mechanics of reading without cognitive overload. This keeps them from being frustrated by trying to learn separate, difficult skills at the same time.

For Struggling or Remedial Readers: If your child's reading is hesitant or choppy, or if they guess at words, this app provides the targeted intervention recommended by modern reading science to help young brains bridge the gap.

THREE CRITICAL SKILL-BUILDING PILLARS While many phonics programs completely overlook the auditory mechanics of reading, our program systematically guides your child through the complete progression of decoding:

Skill 1: Blending (Listening): Interactive listening activities train your child’s neural processing ability to hear isolated sounds in words and join them together mentally. This builds the vital auditory runway required for future fluency.

Skill 2: Segmenting (Speaking): True spelling and reading independence require the ability to pull spoken words apart into their individual sound units. These exercises build explicit awareness of the acoustic structure of language.

Skill 3: Decoding (Reading): The ultimate bridge to literacy. Your child applies their mastery of blending and segmenting directly to text, smoothly moving from spoken sounds to visual words.

STRUCTURAL SPACING & INSTRUCTION (Science-Backed Layout) Our app builds the actual findings of reading science directly into the user interface for maximum visual clarity:

Anti-Crowding Design: Peer-reviewed research, including Marinus et al. (2016) and Wery & Diliberto (2017), demonstrates that generous letter spacing is critical for early decoding. By placing each letter on its own isolated card with distinct physical gaps, our layout eliminates visual crowding, allowing your child to isolate each sound unit cleanly.

True Comprehension: The app strictly discourages picture guessing, forcing children to rely purely on their decoding skills to foster true comprehension and build lasting confidence.

INDEPENDENT LEARNING & AESTHETIC SIMPLICITY Distraction-Free: Our minimalist design eliminates overstimulating audio-visual clutter, excessive sound effects, and animations to keep your child entirely focused on the mechanics of reading. Stress-Free Growth: Built-in natural feedback loops offer gentle corrections, nurturing self-discovery and independent learning at your child's own pace.

EXPERT RESEARCH BACKING "Before a child can read fluently with their eyes, they must be able to blend fluently with their ears. Weakness in auditory blending is one of the strongest early predictors of later reading failure." — Dr. Joseph Torgesen, Florida State University.

"Teaching students to blend and segment benefited their reading much more than did a multiple-skills approach... and teaching phonemic awareness with letters created effect sizes almost twice as large as teaching children without letters." — The National Reading Panel (NRP) Meta-Analysis.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
PRESCHOOL UNIVERSITY
Rating:
4.40
(9)
Version:
3.7 Last updated: 2026-07-08
Version code:
870407797
Creation date:
2012-12-14
Compatible devices:
Size:
190.21MB
Price:
3.99
URLs:
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Data ingested on:
2026-08-15
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Developed by:
PRESCHOOL UNIVERSITY
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reading-magic-for-schools/id585133208
Website:
http://preschoolu.com

User Reviews

Sound does not work
by la*****, 2025-02-21

This app focuses on short vowel, 3-letter words. The app uses about 200 words broken down into 24 categories. This app is all about showing how words are made up of sounds. This app shows how to construct words from sounds and how to deconstruct words into sounds. This app has three different reading games. The first game involves, what reading experts call blending. Children take separate individual sounds and blend them together into a single word. The second game is what reading experts call segmenting. Children take a word and break it down into its individual separate sounds. The third game that this app has is a straightforward reading activity. For both the reading and the blending games, the pictures are hidden, which I really like. In my years of working with children on beginning reading skills, I have seen children doing a lot of picture guessing. This app helps children practice the basic reading skills with the pictures being used to help the children check their work, rather than distracting them from the skill that they are supposed to be learning. I have mixed feelings about some of the uncommon words that this app uses. On one hand the uncommon words are not in the child’s working vocabulary. On the other hand, the app can help build the child’s vocabulary and can help the child practice the actual skill, almost like some reading programs that use nonsense words (words that are not even real) for teaching rhymes or consonant blends. Finally, the pictures will say what word they are when touched. This eliminates any confusion as to what the word is. This app must've had an update to its interface. The interface is nice and friendly. This app has helped my children build their word reading skills.
by Te*****, 2016-03-23
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