Parents' Guide to

Duck Duck Moose Reading

By Dana Anderson, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 5+

Good reading skills practice, but too busy for some kids.

App iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad Free Education
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What you will—and won't—find in this app.

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What’s It About?

Up to three kids can have accounts on DUCK DUCK MOOSE READING, and others can play as guests. When your kid taps on his or her account, the game at the level where they stopped during their last play session will appear. It could be matching letter sounds by having a giraffe eat the letters of the sound that the app asks kids to find, or feeding a dolphin all the words that begin with the sound of the letter T. When kids finish a level, they earn an animal for their zoo page.

Is It Any Good?

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Duck Duck Moose Reading was created using Common Core standards and includes exercises that gradually increase in difficulty by level, as well as a parent page for tracking kids' progress. While Duck Duck Moose Reading is a fine app for basic letter recognition and letter sound practice for pre-readers and early readers, it could be greatly improved by calming everything down a bit, in both visuals and sounds (especially nixing the distracting background music by turning it off). This app is not the best choice for kids who are easily distracted or who need a little extra time or visual space to think about answers.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Talk about letters and letter sounds in everyday life. Transfer some of the word and letter find and match games from the app to real-world situations like the grocery store.

  • Visit the Duck Duck Moose blog and print out the workbook related to the Duck Duck Moose Reading app.

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