To that end, the Epic reading app awards badges and achievements to kids as they go along. Kids often stand to benefit from encouragement and incentives to help them keep turning pages. Badges and AchievementsĪs we all know, it’s not always so easy to get kids excited about reading. Unfortunately for fans of Amazon devices, Epic is no longer supported on Kindle or Kindle Fire devices, which is kind of disappointing.
You can access it through the web on your computer, through many Chromebooks, on iOS and Android mobile devices (OS 10 and Android 4.2.2 and up) or even on your Apple TV if you have it. The quizzes are in multiple choice format and generally aren’t too strenuous or demanding but can help integrate reading material into your lesson plans or just help get kids thinking about what they’ve read on a deeper level.įinally, Epic is supported on a broad range of devices. We think that this is a pretty useful feature if you’re trying to give your child a deeper exposure to certain topics, as well as homeschooling parents who would like an easier way to integrate Epic into their teaching plans.Īlso interesting for those learning at home, certain books also come with quizzes and assessments that parents can assign or access. If a parent wants to assign certain books to their kids they can by creating a collection and then adding titles to it. Interestingly, if you’re traveling to a place where the internet is spotty, you can also download an unlimited number of books for offline reading and save them to your “offline shelf.” Most content on Epic is capable of being downloaded, which is cool, although some are online only and are marked as such with a purple tag. You can also select language preferences, if you’d like to explore content in languages other than English, such as Spanish, Chinese, and French, which is pretty useful for multilingual families or for kids learning a second language. You can even helpfully refine your searches by reading level, including by Accelerated Reader and Lexile Measures. Epic gives parents a lot of options, such as topic, age appropriateness, fiction/non-fiction and more. They can also create personal lists of favorite books, in case they want to read a title again or continue where they left off, which is handy.ĭespite the large and broad selection of content, sorting and filtering books is actually quite easy. Kids themselves can set and change topics that they might be interested in and receive recommended books around those topics, which can give them a sense of personalization and create deeper engagement.
You can set your kids ages or topics they may be interested in and receive recommendations based thereon, you can enable/disable a variety of options, such as notification settings, learning videos and more. There are a lot of ways to tailor Epic to your needs and tastes, as well. Once you sign up for Epic, you’ll get instant access to their catalog of books and be able to set up up to four individual accounts for your children, each with their own profiles, preferences and progress tracking.
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