ABC Tracing from Dave and Ava

This is the only review I've left for an App because it is EXCEPTIONAL. I paid $3 for it and if it's worth it I don't mind. I'm having a hard time finding good toddler apps. They all want you to pay, pay, pay and keep paying. I've had this for one month but he loves this App. He became so frustrated today over another App that has nice graphics, so I paid $3 for it and that wasn't good enough they wanted more money and my toddler finds these purchase prompts very frustrating. And in turn I am frustrated. This Dave and Ava App is easy to navigate for him and does not frustrate him at all. This is by far the best app I have come across. I'm going to get the Dave and Ava Farm Animal App next.

I love the ease of the app and the idea of it, but the sounds are not single phonemes. I teach first and second grade phonics and couldn’t help but notice that many of the sounds have the schwa, or the “uh” sound added to it. For example, the letter S should not be /suh/, but just /s/. Also O and X are just incorrect. O should not be orange because in that instance O is being controlled by the R and its sound is changed. Instead, use a word like “octopus” to show the short sound of O. And X makes the /ks/ sound. Your phonics video does it correctly with the word “box” but this app uses “x-ray” instead. These inaccuracies may seem small, but they greatly impact a child’s reading when they’re being told to “sound it out.” Would love to see these issues corrected and then I would absolutely give this 5 stars.

What a great follow up for a show my 3 and 1 year old daughter are already in love with! I wish I could get the game to play on my old IPad 2 but it maxes out at iOS 9.4.3 or something and the games need at least iOS 10. Don’t care! I’ll have their grandma download it on her iPad and it’s already on my phone. Poking the tracing lady bugs result in endless laughter and coloring to reveal her favorite characters is so satisfying! Totally worth the money!

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Our two year old loves this. i Loaded it on my iPhone X and it worked perfectly at first. My wife saw how much our child liked it and loaded it on her phone that’s NOT an iPhone X. After viewing it on the other phone and coming back to my iPhone X the letters are huge and extend past THE GRASS LOWER border on the screen. Also, it’s like the icons are bigger than they should be, and the bugs and fruit rewards are bigger than they should be and make it difficult to trace the letters. Our kid is frustrated using it on my iPhone X and my kid only use it on my wife’s phone. i’ve tried deleting the app and re-adding it and it’s still the same. Ugh.

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I love the idea of this app (sounds and formation practice), but the sounds are not correct. Most letter sounds on this app have an extra /uh/ attached to it when they are trying to single out a sound. They are teaching the kids to say duance instead of dance. The O example says /or/ not /ō/. Another note on that: make all vowel sounds long or short when teaching, not both. Switch the example to something like octopus. My opinion as a teacher: the way this app teaches sounds will absolutely mess up kids when they are learning to read and spell. Additionally, for $4, this app should have both upper and lower case letter practice.