prMac serves to enhance the visibility of press releases in the Mac world, offering Mac-centric news media distribution services as well as top-notch RSS feeds. © 2013 prMac http://prmac.com/ en-us http://prmac.com/release-id-42154.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-42154.htm Wed, 02 May 2012 05:10:00 CST Popular desktop application, Fluency Timer, comes to the iOS this week. The app allows teachers, parents, and students to record fluency readings with the push of a button. An adjustable timer automatically stops the recording at the end of a preset time. Recordings can be played back, e-mailed, or transferred to the desktop. Teachers can collect audio recordings as evidence of student achievement and communicate results by sharing recordings with parents and colleagues. http://prmac.com/release-id-34483.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-34483.htm Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:05:00 CST Diagnose areas of potential reading difficulty and support beginning readers with the latest update to Reading Remedies 2.3, a universal application for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Reading Remedies offers assessments and follow-up activities for parents and teachers in each of six reading areas. It provides assessments in each of six areas: rhyming, blending, segmenting, sight words, fluency, word attack and more. Version 2.4 is being released Wednesday, November 30, 2011. http://prmac.com/release-id-14695.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-14695.htm Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:00:00 CST Hawk Ridge Consulting has completed K12 Timed Reading Practice, another family-friendly iPhone app. K12 Timed Reading Practice lets readers in levels K to 4 practice fluency by reading short, timed stories. Improving fluency allows readers to read smoothly and quickly so they can focus on comprehension rather than on decoding words. The app includes 250 short, engaging stories for young readers, categorized by Flesh-Kincaid reading level.