Reading Raven is a perennial favorite of kids and parents alike. This may truly be the best app for education, at least when it comes to learning to read. The fun, educational games can become more challenging, so that your child can use this app from their very earliest reading adventures up through first or second grade.

My fascination with educational apps for children is reinforced with my discovery of the educational kids app, Reading Raven, Volume 2 HD. The app is a wonderful combination of visuals and interactivity that promotes learning to read and write!

Reading Raven is back with more learn-to-read adventures for young and developing readers! Reading Raven Volume 2 HD presents the second set of lessons in the same format your child has come to know and love in the award-winning Reading Raven series. A top learning app to help and support your kids to learn how to read!

Are you searching for that “one great app” that will teach your child all of the fundamentals and skills necessary to become an early reader? Look no further than Reading Raven by Early Ascent. The options are endless, and so are the hours of entertainment and education-based activities that Reading Raven is sure to provide for you and your child. 5 enthusiastic stars for Reading Raven!

Reading Raven fetches a well-deserved place among the top 10 Reader’s Choice educational apps for 2012! Check it out on Apps for Homeschooling’s Facebook page.

USA Today Kid Tech Editor Jinny Gudmundsen is the author of iPad Apps for Kids (in the ‘for Dummies’ series). She looked at and reviewed thousands of apps, but only wrote about the top ones, Reading Raven being one of them! Thank you, Jinny!

Reading Raven is a fantastic, comprehensive app. Not only is it educationally effective, it’s also delightfully designed – great graphics, animation, and performance all the way around. Don’t miss this one!

Reading Raven Vol 2 HD continues the excellent language development activities from the original app. The play is the same with colorful thematic areas for repeated practice that thoughtfully build on each other.

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Reading Raven has great mini-games that grow with the reader. As you learn letters and words, the app adds writing and reading to the games. With over 100 different ways to play, such as learning letters by catching butterflies and matching words with circus seals. It is a great app for your collection!

Great News! Reading Raven has been selected as Apps for Children with Special Needs (A4CWSN) app of the month.

Reading Raven is the complete “get ready to read” app for kids. Game play is motivating, and the literacy practice meaningful. A must have app for kids on the road to reading.

The Reading Raven Learn-to-Read app focuses on building foundational reading skills through a variety of interactive and multi-sensory games and activities which serve as a springboard for mastering more complex reading and learning concepts. It’s one of the top 10 free educational apps available–and now it’s a Totally Awesome Award winner!

TeachThought and Teachers With Apps are happy to release our list of 12 best children’s educational apps released in 2012!

In this Time To Play video review, Educational App Reviewer, Carolina Nugent, gives Reading Raven the “Thumbs Up” and tells you why it’s a great app for your child.

Reading Raven has won a place among Red Tricycle’s finalists for the “Most Amazing Kids Apps” category from more than 15,000 nominations cast by moms and dads over a two-week period.

Help Reading Raven move from Finalist to Winner by voting for Early Ascent here before November 30th, 2012.

“Reading Raven is a very impressive app, designed to help 3-5 year olds learn to read. This is an excellent tool to have in your box.”

“This is one of the very best Apps for learning to read and write in the US iTunes store. If you do not have this yet, watch the video, where I show a small sample of what it does, then run, don’t walk, to get it!”

“Excellent educational value, simple non-distracting illustrations, great reward system for kids and help section for parents.”

“This is a great educational app. Its illustrations are bright and colorful, it includes animations that enhance the learning experience and a child’s voice-over encourages them to keep playing and try again when they make mistakes. It covers a lot of material in a fun and engaging manner.”

“Reading Raven offers solid reading instruction in a fun game format. With great voice-overs and a smart, kid-friendly interface, this is an app kids can use independently at their own pace.”

“Reading Raven is an excellent all-round package for developing and strengthening early literacy skills. Easy and fun to use.”

“Reading Raven offers fun step-by-step lessons designed to build a solid foundation for reading. It teaches phonological awareness, full sentences, and even printing skills.”

“As a psychologist who specializes in assessing and treating children with reading disabilities, I am frequently in a position to evaluate different programs to help develop children’s skills. Many of them fail to deliver or are not well grounded in theory and/or research. Reading Raven has both theory and research behind its development and it also has educators behind the program with years of experience in developing children’s emerging literacy skills. If you are looking for a great iPad program for children’s early, emerging skills, this is one I would recommend.”

“I can’t say enough wonderful things about this app. Reading Raven has one of the strongest educational and design foundations we have seen.”

“Raven has what it takes to get kids on the road to reading and the developers have done it brilliantly, by following a proven program.”

“Seattle app startup Early Ascent flew toward the summit this week, after catching the eye of Apple.”

“This is absolutely the best early literacy app I’ve found to date.”

“I can not say enough WONDERFUL things about this app.”

“This is one of the best educational apps that I’ve ever seen. This app is so well built and is worth every penny!”

“With Reading Raven, they combine all of the great features we loved from our other apps and smashed them into one.”

“Reading Raven has found a winning combination with the activities, skills, graphics, sound effects and more.”

“Unlike most early literacy apps that focus on one or two skills, Reading Raven builds a solid foundation of early reading skills for children by systematically designing an app that builds as little readers grow and learn.”

“Reading Raven has one of the strongest educational and design foundations we have seen.”

“This is a very enticing educational app that is sure to hold your kids attention.”

“Reading Raven promises step-by-step reading lessons for young children.”

“Early Ascent, LLC today announced the release of Reading Raven, an interactive and multi-sensory learn-to-read educational game available in the Apple App Store.”