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Life & fun · September 21, 2018

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Maria – iPad app for learning to read

Maria — Montessori Reading App is an iPad app for learning to read that is based on the Montessori approach to learning.

Maria – iPad app for learning to read launched on September 21, 2018 with 5 votes, #1,209 of 2,635 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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What it does

Now with 35 activities and over 400 images and speech recordings. Maria is a reading app inspired by the Montessori method of learning to read. An important principle of Montessori education is empowering the child to be independent to teach themselves, with little guidance from an adult. Level 1 begins by teaching students to recognize individual letter sounds in sets of three or four letters at a time. Level 2 teaches students to build, decode, and read three-letter phonetic words. Level 3 teaches students to decode, read, and spell four-letter phonetic words. Level 4 teaches students to decode, read, and spell words with a magic 'e' and words containing digraphs. Level 5 teaches students…from maria.education

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