Introducing Reading Raven — A Learn To Read App

We are delighted to announce the release of Reading Raven for iPad in the Apple App Store. Our beta testers and advisors have been using the app for some time and their initial reaction to Reading Raven’s learn-to-read adventures has been extremely positive. With this week’s release anyone with an iPad can download our app and start using it. We are excited to find out how children, parents and teachers respond to Reading Raven and we encourage your feedback and suggestions on how we can improve the user experience as we help children learn to read.

Reading is such a foundational skill that many adults don’t even remember how they learned it; they simply take it for granted. But as any reading specialist will tell you, learning to read doesn’t happen overnight and learning to read is more like a marathon than a sprint. Children learn in different ways and each child has his or her own unique strengths and struggles. Thus designing a product that is universally useful for all children is both an enormous challenge and an opportunity. We will be collecting all the feedback we receive and use it to evolve our product and work to continually improve it.

Reading Raven takes children from basic pre-reading skills to reading simple sentences aloud through lessons that are richly multi-dimensional, fun and engaging. Reading Raven allows parents to customize their children’s learning experience to match their abilities at just the right level. Some children may want to practice letter recognition and letter tracing while others may want to focus on reading aloud and rhyming activities, or perhaps go through all the activities.

We have designed our lessons as reading adventures where each lesson has its own unique cast of characters and themed games. With Reading Raven, children learn naturally while being challenged and stimulated in a setting that is extremely playful and fun. There’s nothing more exciting for a parent or teacher than seeing their child’s face light up when she hears her own voice played back to her after reading a sentence or receiving recognition for correctly tracing one of her first letters.

Welcome to Reading Raven. Happy reading adventures!