"I Read" aims to in a quick, easy and interactive way practice the child's reading skills. The application includes over 3000 sentences and words that are specifically made for this app as well as over 100 pictures that goes along with them. "I Read" is first and foremost adapted to children in early school age who works with improving their reading flow and expand their reading capacity. The application is also suited for children and young people who are new to the english language. Besides english the content is also available in Swedish, Danish, Finnish and Norwegian.
"I Read" consists of six different exercises that in different ways practices the children's reading capability:
True or false?
Practices the children's reading skills. A statement is presented and the task is to decide if it is true or false judging from the picture that is shown.
What word is missing?
Practices the children's understanding for sentence structure as well as prepositions. The task consists of choosing which of the four words is the correct one to complete the sentence.
Choose the right sentence
Practices the reading flow as well as the reading comprehension. Four sentences are presented and will need to be read and understood in order to choose which one matches the shown picture.
Make a sentence
Practices the children's understanding for sentence structure with capital letter and punctuation as important parts. A picture is shown along with between three and six words. The task is to build a correct sentence from those words.
Sentence memory
Practices the flow in reading as well as the memory which also is a crucial part in reading comprehension in order for the children to remember what they have read. Four pictures has to, like a memory game, be paired with the right sentence.
Read and answer.
A combined exercise that practices the reading flow as well as reading and word comprehension. A shorter text is presented along with a picture. When the child has read the text and chooses to continue a question is presented with three answer alternatives based on the read text.
In order to motivate the children to continue the exercises there is a reward book built in to the application. Gradually as the tasks are solved the pictures in the reward book is unlocked. Already after the first solved task you will get your first reward. In order to unlock all of them and complete the reward book over 100 solved tasks are needed.
"I Read" is just like our other applications free from in-app purchases and commercials and is designed so that the children as much as possible can use the app on their own.