Squiggle Park

My son is in Kindergarten and his teacher sent the sign in info with him at the beginning of the year. I was hesitant at first because I thought it would be too babyish for him. I love the way that it builds upon stuff already covered, and isn’t super repetitive like some of the educational videos we’ve seen. He loves doing it because it’s fun and he loves learning. He’s always asking me “can I do my levels?” Great app, highly recommend it to anyone who is debating between learning apps for their kids or their classrooms. The one complaint I have (and the reason for the four stars instead of five) is that every time I open the app it makes me sign him back in again, not sure if that’s because he’s using a school account or what, but it is slightly annoying, especially before I had the symbol codes memorized and I had to go hunt them down to sign him in again.

As an educational consultant trained in interaction design and user experience design, I often roll my eyes at apps and programs that I see teachers utilizing in their classrooms. That was not the case with Squiggle Park. Squiggle Park is an app at which I absolutely marveled-- everything from the scope and sequence of its content, to its pedagogical and scaffolded supports, to its teacher dashboards that offer more data than most competitors is well-developed and well-rationalized. Definitely download today!

As a father of two I'm always looking at ways to help improve my kids reading competency. Generally adverse to using technology I was recommended Squiggle Park by my sons second grade teacher. She said this wasn't the first app she tried with her students however it was the first that she found really works. We allowed our kids to play with the application at home and really saw an improvement. Wish we had these tools when I was growing up.

There are many literacy games that your child or student can play, but how many of them are actually valuable? With Squiggle Park my students are engaged and having fun all while learning those essential reading skills. It's an excellent addition to any home or classroom literacy block!

I was so excited about this app. My kids started to use it right away. They got to the levels where the sound was needed and we couldn’t hear anything. I checked my sound, made sure sound was working. Downloaded it on our iPad and it worked fine. It’s just the iPhone app. Sad! I still love it on the iPad, just not my phone.