Ruckus Media Group is launching a Ruckus Reader app Monday through iTunes, in the vein of Scholastic’s Storia platform and PlayTales (originally Touchy Books). The focus of Ruckus Reader is on the acquisition of reading skills, and it includes learning assessment reports so that “parents can easily understand their child’s reading level and their progress week-to-week.” Focused on preschoolers through second graders, the Ruckus Reader has three different reading levels, for emergent, beginning, and independent readers. And it’s designed to “match age-appropriate standards determined by the Common Core State Standards. “Children practice early reading skills from letter sounds, word recognition, […]