Montessorium: Intro to Letters App Reviews

the app is really great . . . my daughters both love it. the design is clean and interesting and beautiful. its a great learning tool that keeps them coming back. my only complaint is that the tracing can be a bit unresponsive or delayed. this wouldnt be a problem for me, but its sometimes frustrating for the girls. when they draw outside the line by accident, it takes an extra moment for the app to reset and ready itself. i recommend this app, but be sure to explain that to your child.

Nice app. My only criticism is that it is not easy to practice/trace letters in sequence. I want the kids to trace A and then be able to go to B easily without going to the main menu. I also tried a different app called "Learning ABC" made by Newgenon Solutions which the kids are loving as you can go from one letter to the other in sequence and can also trace upper case and lower case versions of the letter on the same page.

When a program advertises that it will teach children how to write letters, one assumes that the program designers actually know how to print letters. The y is wrong, the d is wrong and after that, I didnt want to know what other mistakes there were.

Such a cool app, wonderful practice, nice look, clean and isolates the skills involved. Recording capability is great. Big problem: the consonants are not phonetically pronounced. Each consonant sound adds an uh sound to the true consonant sound. If you phonetically spell each one the way the app demonstrates, each consonant would be bu, cu, du, etc. Seem like a minor flaw? Not to a teacher or a child first trying to master phonics! Also, this app needs to continue into early phonetic word building, with photos of 3 letter word phonetic objects (hat, bun, sit, dog, etc) like other apps do. This could be the dominant app for starting to learn to read, doesnt quite get there yet. I hope they fix the issues and expand it.

As a first grade teacher and former literacy coach, I am horrified as to the pronunciation of many of the letter sounds. Instead of /b/ I hear /ba/. Instead of /k/ I hear /ka/. And the worst of all is the sound for the letter r. Instead of /r/ I hear /er/. These are all the things I have worked so hard for my students to not do. In light of these gross errors, I can not recommend this app to anyone, especially schools. If the developer needs some assistance, please contact me.

What a waste of $5. The design is fine but its hard for ME to get the app to respond to touch. My son is frustrated and confused that I can draw a line after 3 tries but he cant at all. Nice way to learn. Annoyed. Wish I could get a refund.

My two year old has been using this for months and loves it. He recognized all letters in the alphabet before his friends... Mostly due to this app we think!

For how much I paid for this app, I was expecting more in terms of the ability to "write" the letters. There are arrows showing where to draw, but they do not correct the student when they make a mistake and because the letters are so big on the iPad, they could be making the letter completely wrong starting some bad habits...for example, when my daughter was the "k" she drew the long line down, but to draw the next line touching the straight line down is awkward because the letter is so large and looks really funny even if you do it the right way.

Ok for tracing letters of you are older, but not for the young ones. If you dont trace in one clean stroke it gets buggy.

I was expecting the letters to be in cursive since thats what my kids are learning in Montessori school

We have had this app for a couple of years now. My daughter LOVES this app! She just started learning how to write her letters. I often find her practicing her letters on the iPad, in her leisurely time.

It looks nice and all, but for the price you expect more. Also in letter pairs, clicking on "er" brings up "or", "or" brings up "th" and "th" brings up "er". :S

Nicely designed, just wish the small letters were not printed, but rather handwritten style. There is not much point in tracing prints

Kids can trace letters in the wrong direction! Dont buy this app.

Just purchased the app. It offers a lot for students at this level. The only flaw I caught from a motor development stand point is that not all the upper case letters are taught starting from the top (A, M and N for example ). Writing is more efficient when there is consistency in the starting place. If this were fixed, I would probably give it five stars in a future review.

I am not one to leave feedback, but this app is horrible and expensive. The montessori crossword, spelling with phonics is much better. This app is boring. I purchased it mainly for the voice over feature but I cant get it to work. Bottle line dont waste your money. Abc phonics animated app has a better writing tutorial.

This app would be perfect- its beautifully designed, great concept, etc. except that it has one fatal flaw. It forces the user to keep going with a stroke until a bell rings. However, if you dont keep pushing your stroke past the end of the guide, you dont get the bell and you cant move on to finish the letter. And when youre in that position, with the stroke done, but not pushed past the end so you get the bell, youre stuck. It takes me several tries to trigger it. Hence my kids simply cant use the app on their own, even though they do well with drawing the letters. Frustrating. Ugh.

This is one very terrific program to aid a child to learn Phonics. The child hears the sound as he/she follows with their finger. So that involves 3 of the senses: Seeing the letter, hearing its sound, and following the letter with their finger gets motor skills involved. The more involved, the greater chance the youngster will remember the sound made by the letter. Its a great program for teaching Phonics.

I think for the most part this is app does a great job. I especially love the option of recording my own voice to do the instructing. I gave 4 out of 5 stars only because I wish there was an an option in the settings for left handed kids. My child tends to want to trace in the opposite direction of what a right handed person would naturally want to trace.

This app is impossible for my three year old son to use properly and I wish I could get my money back. I am very disappointed. I would think for the 5 dollars it would have been a quality app. Clearly I was wrong.