Review of Pickatale
Pickatale
Fairmeadows

Class Teacher

Used Pickatale weekly for 1-2 years

Nov 2022

The children in class enjoy using pickatale and the range of texts it has to offer. Children like the accessibility aspect it offers in that it reads the text out too them as this has helped a few of our reluctant readers to engage more with books. The children in class particularly like the factual books and often share facts and things they have found out with both myself and other staff alike.

Reply from Pickatale:Thank you for your review. Fantastic to hear that your class has been enjoying our non-fiction titles in particular. We're so looking forward to increasing accessibility for everyone with the launch of the Web browser Reader and Teacher Dashboard next month.
Fairmeadows found Pickatale:
  • Moderately saves school money
    Range of books accessible online that don't then need to be replicated as a physical copy in the library.
  • Slightly reduces teacher workload
    It still uses the same amount of time in class as a normal read would - just makes it easier to monitor and assign books.
  • Does not significantly improve parent engagement
    Our parents aren't too keen on using pickatale and quite a lot prefer just using a physical book at home to read.
  • Slightly improves attainment
    Yet to see any clear progress as it hasn't been in place in our class for a full academic year as yet.
  • Moderately builds student knowledge
    It is a valuable tool for extending childrens learning of given topics. This has been particularly evident with our theme work whereby children have used Pickatale to extend their knowledge/learning further by finding appropriate texts about said topic.
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