Better Tech Leads to Real Learning Gains {MaxScholar Review}

We may earn money or products from the companies mentioned in this review or post, but all opinions are our own.

Digital Learning Leaving You Leary?

We have jumped with both feet into the digital age, but my problem is the kids constantly want to only play games on the iPad or Kindle! I am sure you see the same pattern so, as we’ve cut back on frivolous play time MaxScholar has helped us get back to genuinely using digital tools to accelerate real learning. The best part is the results of their Reading Intervention Programs is measurable with a parent information panel that shows us actual learning progress. Summer readers show an increase of 30% over their peers at the beginning of the school year.

I’m not left guessing if MaxScholar is working. Play finally pays!

MaxScholar Reading Intervention Programs

Let’s face it, schools are turning more and more, to digital products to help students learn in this fast paced digital world. That sounds good on paper but when I hand my kids an iPad it seem like the only things they wanted were useless videos of kids opening random toy packages or “birds and flying pigs”.

I want to hand my kid tech and see actual learning happen

MaxScholar is helping that happened for homeschool parents across the country. The program was created to maximize reading comprehension and correct readers with early intervention. They want to get kids on the ground running by creating the best online reading software possible.

The program was scientifically designed for reading intervention by some of the best software engineers and developers around. They truly are taking teaching reading into the digital age without losing focus on learning. The program uses the Orton-Gillingham approach to systematically teach students phonics, build vocabulary words and even work on their writing. There are a ton of teaching tools in the parent panel.

Year Round or to Stay Sharp

We’re using the program with my six-year-old so that we don’t lose reading comprehension over the summer. During the three months of baseball season we are on the go all the time. Mornings are a rush of chores, laundry, and shuttling kids around to activities. It’s hard to set a concrete time that I know I’ll be around to continue one-on-one reading with a little one. Max color has been a great way for him to be able to get some online play time during the busy mornings while continuing to work on fluency and reading.

No Guessing on Placement

When your student opens their MaxPhonics or MaxReading window, the first thing they’re given is a placement test to make sure that they are placed an accurate level for learning. This assessment also helps the program gauge weaknesses and your child’s reading comprehension or phonics knowledge and provides a baseline to build on.

All Learning Styles Are Covered

Learning is done through a series of phonics sound activities; matching, identifying both auditory and visual cues, letter recognition. I do find that working on a digital format is great for my auditory and visual oriented kids.

I cannot express enough the importance of reading aloud to your children to build a tolerance for sitting quietly and listening. It is a skill they can learn. There is also a huge need to meet your children with learning tools that best fits their learning style and auditory visual children often fall through the cracks in a homeschooling setting because the formal workbooks and reading format sometimes is not enough.

MaxScholar is great because it works for all learning styles hitting on every one of the learning types.

The program is Straightforward and runs on its own.

I appreciate the simplicity and lack of buttons for my kids to click out of or respond incorrectly. I have used other programs where I was constantly resetting the page or putting my child in the right lesson number. It was extremely frustrating. MaxScholar is a linear-based program each lesson follows the last with no optional choices to end up in a lesson and that is too difficult or too easy. It is truly set up for systematic learning.

If you are a person who likes concrete information or has to do reporting for your state homeschool requirements, MaxScholar has a parent dashboard. You can pull reports directly from it, as well as access to all of the max scholar classes.

Honestly there is a great deal of information on their site and MaxScholar has quite a few programs I would like to do a little more exploring. MaxPlaces for geography, MaxMusic, as well as vocabulary building in MaxWord, MaxPhonics and MaxReading.

You can read more reviews and check out MaxScholar on all of your favorite social channels as well.