Readiculous teaches children to read through a combination of Systematic Synthetic Phonics and gamified learning. Even though phonics has been proven to work, traditional phonics instruction – with its sound-to-letter mapping and the breaking-up and
Phonics is a coding system for the English language that goes beyond the 26 letters of the alphabet. It teaches children 44 phonemes (sounds such as the /f/ in funny) and more than 200 graphemes (letter or letter combinations such as f, ff or ph) cor
Phonemes are the individual sounds that make up a spoken word, like the /f/ sound in funny. There are 44 phonemes in English. Just like building fortresses out of Lego blocks, phonics encourages children to break down words into their individual phon
High-frequency words are words that appear commonly in children’s books, like as and she. Many high-frequency words are irregular in that they do not feature the normal letter-sound correspondences, examples include the, was and is. A small number of
The curriculum in Readiculous follows the same structure for the basics of learning to read that children will encounter at school. This makes it a perfect supplementary tool for phonics lessons! Because we recommend about 15 minutes of Readiculous t
Yes, absolutely! Paid subscriptions come with a full progress report, updated daily, of how each user is doing, and their progress in the game. We will show you the phonemes and words that your child (or children) are learning, and the pace at which
Excellent question! The progress report is a customised and secure browser-based report which shows you how your child is doing. We will show you the letters, phonemes and words they are learning. We will also highlight any content they may be strugg
Readiculous is recommended for children aged 3-7. If you have completed Readiculous or are older than 7, then why not check out Word Tag? Word Tag is the word-learning adventure game for 7-12 year olds that is shown to improve vocabulary by up to 43%
We recommend completing one mission per day, for roughly 10-20 minutes, so that the content intake is limited and more memorable. After a mission is completed, users will be rewarded with extra gameplay experiences. Users are able to complete more th
"Little and often" is the best way for children to learn. The curriculum in Readiculous is divided into missions that deliver content in bitesized chunks. We recommend doing a mission a day every day. Each mission takes approximately 10 minutes.
The game is designed for children to play alone and includes voiceovers with instructions. The parental support required involves creating a user profile and making sure that the sound is on so that your child can hear the instructions and content of
The primary goal of Readiculous is to teach children how to read. To do this, we introduce letter-sound correspondences one by one, following a pre-determined order that generally goes from easier/most common to harder/less common. For example, a,t,p
Yes. Safety is our number one priority. There are no external chat features or in-app purchases and there is no third-party advertising. All of this ensures a fun, safe gaming experience for everyone!
There is no third-party advertising in Readiculous.
You can trial Readiculous free of charge for a week. After this, there is a monthly subscription. The price varies depending on your currency, and there is a discount for a full-year subscription.
Readiculous is available on both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.
You can have up to 4 child profiles on your account.
You have the option to subscribe to a monthly or annual plan. We will ask you to provide your credit card and contact details when you first try the app. When you sign up, you will receive one free trial week, during which you may cancel at any time
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To cancel in-app, go to the settings area and press the 'cancel subscription' button near your current subscription information. Alternatively, depending on your device’s operating system, there are two different processes.On an Apple device:Open the
Unfortunately, we can’t process a refund because all payments go through the Apple or Google stores. However, you can contact them directly and follow the process here:For Apple iOS users go here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204084 For Google A
The specs indicated below are the basic minimum specifications that our game needs in order to run as intended; specs lower than this might run it, but we are not confident that the display of performance the app does will be optimal. In general, mos