Learning Resources Homeschool Tactile Auditory Reviews Summary

Game Quality and Design

Pros:

• "The game pieces are thick and durable."
• "The quality of the game is excellent, the swatters nice and robust and the sight words flies made of really thick cardboard."
• "The game is really well made, words are thick and sturdy. Great quality."
• "The product and its items are made of good quality material, loved it."
• "The parts are all high quality."
• "The sight word cards are thick and durable."
• "The game pieces are super sturdy and thick."

Cons:

• "They are a thick cardboard material but when you slap them with the spaceship suction, several of them just peeled right off the cardboard."
• "The suction cup does work, but when removing the card the layers come apart."
• "After playing ONE time, two of the word cards separated in half."
• "Played this game twice with my 5 year old and the pieces are splitting in two already."
• "Each child who's played with it has ended up pulling discs apart when they try to pull the suction cup back off the disc."
• "The cardboard discs do begin to separate."
• "Brand new out of the box and 4 of the words are damaged."

Educational Value

Pros:

• "It’s a versatile game so children who are just learning the words are able to play as well as ones who already know them."
• "You can customize the readings level."
• "It is fun to play and teaches math in an easy to understand way!!"
• "It has my kids actually wanting to learn to read because it's a game and not 'work'."
• "This game is great! My Kindergarten class LOVES it! It's a fun fast paced way to build sight word fluency."
• "It works wonders with speech, comprehension, and social skills."
• "nice variety of words for various stages of reading."

Cons:

• "BUT the words are supposed to be ranked by difficulty but we feel it not consistent or well thought out."
• "Our only complaint is the swatters bend and eventually break overtime."
• "Teaching sight words, especially in the out-of-context way it's often presented, including this product from Learning Resources, is difficult."
• "It also doesn't have many of the words most schools teach in K and 1st grade."
• "The double-sided aspect of the cards makes it impossible to organize and store cards according to different reading levels."
• "However, I am worried about it's durability... some of the word discs are separating when the suction slammer is removed."
• "I don’t know about the swatter, I can see it breaking pretty easy and siblings/multiple kids I could see them hitting each other."

Gameplay Experience

Pros:

• "This game keeps his attention and makes learning more fun."
• "The space ships make this so exciting."
• "My son loves 'swatting' the fly! He doesn't even realize he's learning and mastering the vocabulary words because he thinks he's just playing a game."
• "This game is definitely made to hold up to all the swatting of the words that goes on."
• "This is an adorable game! The parts are all high quality."
• "My daughter is in preschool and she only knew two words before we bought this game. After a week of playing we are now at about 15 words."
• "This game was a brilliant idea! We've only played it twice (in one day, since it arrived today), and already my kids have increased their sight word knowledge!"