Table of contents:
- Read Along by Google: how this app works
- Exercises and stories to practice
- Reading training: go for speed
Reading is a magical experience Learning to read is a process that can be very beautiful and that many boys and girls probably live in confinement . Google has just presented an application that can help those parents who do not have other resources to teach their children to read. Or who want to try a technological alternative in the form of an application.
This is Read Along by Google,an app that is conceived as a fun tool to start the little ones in learning the reading.You can use it as a complement to your classes at home or at school (when they go) or directly to start them. Remember, however, that an application can never replace reading through books and your presence as a mother or father, essential in the process of acquiring reading and good habits.
But how does this app work? See if it can be useful in your case.
Read Along by Google: how this app works
Let's start by defining it: Read Along by Google is an application that helps children learn to read or train reading. You can download it for free through the Google Play Store. Once you have it installed, you will have to configure it, because from the start it works in English. It is possible that in the next days/months, the application will be improved with Spanish (from Spain). For now, if you want to use it in Spanish (from Latin America) you will have to do the following:
- Open the application and click on the hamburger icon (located at the top left of the screen)
- Click on the Language Settings button and click on More languages
- Choose the option Español + English
Exercises and stories to practice
This is an application for boys and girls who already have notions of reading. That is to say, here they will not learn to join the p with the a. We will find a section with reading exercises and then another with stories. Be sure to turn the upper switch to Ñ, to see all the content that is available in your language You will see that there are a lot of stories, some longer, others shorter…
To start, you will have to accept the permissions of the application, because you will need to listen to your little one while reading Once this is done, you can choose one of the stories The system will mark in blue the words that you have to start reading. The child will know that he has to read because you tell him, but also because the assistant at the bottom will show himself in an active listening position.
As the child reads, yellow stars will appear. This means that you are reading it correctly. If you make a mistake at any point or leave out a word, they will be underlined in red At the end of the reading (of the paragraph or of the sentence), the assistant will recommend you to correct the reading, reading each of the words in which it has failed separately.
If the child needs help, you just have to help him naturally. But if you allow a bit of independent reading, to find out how to read a word or a phrase, all you have to do is click on the assistant.She will read it and then the little one will have to repeat it.
Reading training: go for speed
It is not enough to read. There is comprehension and then, as far as possible, practice to read faster and faster We have found that the application can be useful in this regard, because it rewards reading speed and in the case of children who have already learned to read, it can be useful for training.
Parents can get a report of time spent reading It wouldn't be a bad thing if it also provided information on speed and achievement. In any case, we can say that the application is useful in its fair measure and that it contains interesting and well-illustrated stories. Not bad for starting or toggling.
