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Vocabulary is essential to comprehension. The larger the student’s vocabulary, the easier it is to make sense of the text. Vocabulary should be taught both directly and indirectly. Teaching and learning vocabulary involves learning words before reading, repetition and multiple exposures, learning in rich contexts, incidental learning, and use of computer technology.

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Fluency is being able to read with appropriate speed, accuracy, and proper expression. When a student is a fluent reader, he can read as well as he speaks and doesn't have to stop to sound out each word.

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Phonemic Awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds, or phonemes, in spoken words. For example, when a student has phonemic awareness, he can separate the word "dog" into three distinct sounds.

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Comprehension is understanding what is read. The National Reading Panel determined that young readers develop text comprehension through a variety of techniques, including answering questions (quizzes) and summarization (retelling the story).

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Demystifying the Science of Reading: Vocabulary

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Demystifying the Science of Reading: Phonemic Awareness

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Demystifying the Science of Reading: Fluency

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Super Sight Words is a program that teaches kids the most common words in the English language that makeup 65% of every page of reading. This program teaches students pronunciation, meaning, spelling, and usage.

This program is useful because many times, students with autism memorize sight words but may not know the proper pronunciation, meaning, or usage of the words and this app teaches all of these in an interactive, colorful format.

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Super Sight Words - Keys to reading & writing success!

For students at every grade level!

"Beginning readers need to master a high-frequency vocabulary." - Professor Edward Fry, Professor of Education and the Director of the Reading Center at Rutgers University

What if there were a small group of words that worked like a magic key And opened the door of reading? Well there are ... and they're why we made "Super Sight Words," a fun, interactive, program featuring engaging text, fun images, and audio to teach students these key words that make reading fun, fast and easy.

English has more words than any other language - over a million and growing. But a surprisingly small number of these words (around 1,000) make up 65% of every page of text you will ever read. These are called "high frequency words" and it's recommended that students learn them by sight - that's why they are often called "sight words."

Super Sight Words teaches students all the most common words in English - words they see all day, every day - and it teaches the words completely including:

Learning these words gives students a major leg up in both decoding and comprehension.

Samples from the levels for grades K-1

Samples from the levels for grades 2-3

Samples from the levels for grades 4-5

Samples from the levels for grades 7-8

As Professor Fry observed:

"Beginning readers need to master a high-frequency vocabulary. They should be able to read these words "instantly" - without a moment's hesitation - because these words make up 65% of all written material. In fact, more than half of the text of every newspaper article, textbook, children's story, and novel is composed of these words. It is virtually impossible for students to concentrate on comprehension if they are stuck on a word such as 'their.'"

Fry's and others' research showed that knowing a sufficient number of high-frequency words significantly improved students' decoding skills, reading fluency, and comprehension.

And a major added bonus is that the most common high frequency words - known as "function words" which are made up of articles (e.g., "a," "an," "the"), prepositions (e.g., "in," "on," "at"), conjunctions (e.g., "and," "but," "or"), and pronouns (e.g., "he," "she," "it") - are essential to English grammar .

Super Sight Words teaches students the essential high frequency vocabulary they need to succeed in school and in life! It's a super powerful program.

So sign up today and get started!

Go to the Super Sight Words sign up page

Super Sight Words is $49.99 for one year access

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For students at every grade level! "Beginning readers need to master a high-frequency vocabulary." - Professor Edward Fry, Professor of Education and the Director of the Reading Center at Rutgers University What if there were a small group of words that worked like a magic key And opened the door of reading?

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IXL covers hundreds of reading skills for each grade level beginning with reading foundations including phonemic awareness. For example, in kindergarten, students start by identifying letters, then move to letter sounds, rhyming, and short and long sounds before moving on to sight words.

This tool is useful because even though many learners with ASD can read many common sight words from memory, they often struggle to sound out unfamiliar words or comprehend their meaning. This program aids with both of these concepts.

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Learn kindergarten English language arts skills for free! Choose from hundreds of topics including letter recognition, phonics, reading comprehension, and more. Start now!

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Reading Bear allows students to hear a letter sound and practice sounding out words slowly and then quickly with a helper on the screen. Students then practice sounding out the word themselves using flashcards, audio sentences, or silent sentences.

This tool would be useful because it forces students to sound out and practice words many times. It also lets the students know whether they are saying the words correctly and allows them to take short quizzes to assess their learning. The scaffolding approach allows struggling learners to build on their learning and work at their desired pace.

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As our way of saying "Thank You" for taking the time to send us a testimonial,

we would like to send you our collection of PDF printable exercises linked to each of the 50 Reading Bear modules (two per module).

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Reading Bear is a collection of free, well-made, multimedia phonics presentations. Your child can learn to read with Reading Bear.

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This program allows students to enter a virtual world called Ooka Island while learning how to decode words. It has three levels of adaptability and continuous formative assessments to pinpoint exactly where students are struggling.

This program is useful and appeals to young learners with autism because it is game-based. colorful, and appeals to the visual senses.

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Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. | A New Adventure in Learning to Read

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Explore Scholastic's new reading program that strengthens foundational reading skills and develop highly effective readers through game-based learning.

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Bitsboard Flashcards Pro is a game-based app that can be downloaded on Apple products. It includes thousands of flashcard decks, memory cards, word builders, photo hunts, sequencing games, and more. It especially is useful for building vocabulary. Teachers can customize lessons and track progress on the app.

This tool is useful because many students on the spectrum are visual learners, they respond well to colorful images and interactive technology tools. This app allows the learner to associate vocabulary words with pictures and meaning.

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This program presents a word and teaches students its meaning in all different contexts, helping them understand that words can have multiple meanings. It also teaches students about new words formed by adding prefixes or suffixes as well as idioms and compound words used with the vocabulary word they are learning.

This program is useful because it helps students on the autism spectrum and other struggling readers understand that a word can be used in many different ways. The idioms and compound word explanations help students on the spectrum (who often see things in black and white) think beyond the literal meaning of a word.

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Scholastic W.O.R.D. | Vocabulary and Comprehension Program

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Scholastic W.O.R.D. | Vocabulary and Comprehension Program

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Discover a more effective way to teach vocabulary and comprehension through game-based learning with the award-winning Scholastic W.O.R.D.

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Demystifying the Science of Reading: Comprehension

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Reading Coach is a reading fluency practice tool for students that automatically generates individualized exercises based on each student's specific needs. It allows teachers to check fluency easily and tailor practice to build fluency in readers.

This program is useful for students on the autism spectrum and other struggling readers because it automatically identifies words that the student struggles with and creates additional practice opportunities. The new feature guides the correct pronunciation and syllabification, shares visuals to help vocabulary recall, and positively reinforces students to help build their confidence as readers.

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Reach every learner with reading programs from Microsoft Education

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Reach every learner with reading programs and tools from Microsoft Education. Learn how these literacy soulutions can help your students succeed.

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EPIC is an online library that houses thousands of books. Students can choose books that interest them, including books that can be read aloud to them which helps build fluency.

This program is useful because the more students are interested, the more they will read. The more they read, the more fluent they become!

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Instantly access over 40,000 of the best books & videos for kids on Epic

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Get Epic to explore 40K+ kids' books online, from classic storybooks to audiobooks, comics & more.

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This app is game-based which makes practicing learning fun. Players practice beating the timer. Levels gradually increase the required speed. Grade-level goals can be set and kept track of in this fun fluency builder!

Many students on the autism spectrum respond well to game-based learning. Many also love time and clocks. This app incorporates both of these things while helping students build reading fluency.

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I am a 20 year veteran special education teacher that found this at a reading seminar. It looks great and isn't decked out with too many "whistles and bells". However, the stories are incomplete. The read aloud goes further than the actual viewed passage, but both end without a complete story. Disappointing. Enough so that it makes me hesitant to upgrade to the paid version.

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‎** Happy Frog Apps is a Mom's Choice Award Winner! Also featured on FunEducationalApps.com, TeachersWithApps.com, and more! ** Reading Fluency Builder quickly develops your child's reading speed to meet grade level expectations. Reading fluency is a key prerequisite if your child is struggling with...

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Students on the autism spectrum tend to struggle with phonemic awareness. They can often recognize words from memory but struggle when they encounter an unknown word and need to sound it out.

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Among other reading skills, this app helps build comprehension with AI Interactive Voice-based Questions & Answers and provides 1-on-1 tutoring. The tutor prompts, corrects, assesses, and encourages young readers to ensure they fully understand the material.

This program is useful because the 1-on-1 tutor is able to assess the learner and adjust accordingly. Also, many students on the autism spectrum respond well to AI and its interactive and visual nature.

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Track Progress

When using Readability in a blind study, our app shows parents quantifiable improvement and offers detailed daily and weekly reading reports. The Progress Dashboard includes reading history, reading times, accuracy, comprehension, as well as speed.

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Smart Reading Program for Kids that need help with reading and comprehension

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Readability is the only Smart Reading & Comprehension Program with advanced speech recognition and artificial intelligence that listens and provides help to your child as they read. Readability automatically selects the right reading material for each child to maximize improvement and minimize reading struggle.

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Khan Academy Kids is FREE and offers reading comprehension support through grade-level lessons, games, and tutoring.

This program is useful because students can practice at their own pace, there are games embedded in the learning, and teachers can assign specific tasks and track data easily.

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Khan Academy Kids is a free, fun, educational program with thousands of activities and books that will inspire a lifetime of learning and discovery for children ages 2-8.

Our award-winning app is thoughtfully designed by experts in early childhood education to guide young learners on a delightful journey through key skills in math, reading, phonics, writing, social-emotional development, and more. It includes thousands of lessons, activities, books, and games that are age-appropriate for preschool through second grade. With catchy songs and yoga videos, your littles will also have fun moving, dancing, and getting the wiggles out.

The app is perfect for learning at home or in school. Parents can choose lessons from the app's library for their kids or use the personalized learning path that automatically adjusts to each child's level. Teachers can quickly and easily find lessons by standard, make assignments, and monitor student progress through a suite of teacher tools.

Khan Academy Kids is completely free, forever-no ads and no subscriptions necessary. And we're always adding new content to keep kids engaged, including books, songs, and videos from Super Simple Songs®, Bellwether Media, National Geographic Young Explorer Magazine, and Alo Yoga.

Download today and let the joyful learning begin!

We'd love to hear from you. Please visit us at khanacademykids.org, or drop us a line at khankids@khanacademy.org.

Here's a sample of what you'll find in the app:

ALL-NEW ORIGINAL BOOKS
* 15 new books teach kids important skills like empathy, self-confidence, problem solving, and appreciating and accepting different cultures and perspectives.
* The children in our stories represent different backgrounds, cultures, abilities, ethnicities, and family structures.

AWARD-WINNING CONTENT
* Editors' Choice-Apple App Store
* Common Sense Media-5-star Educational Value, 5-star Ease of Play
* Children's Technology Review Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design-100% Rating
* Parents' Choice Foundation Gold Award

ROBUST CURRICULUM
* Reading and literacy-phonics, letters, spelling, and comprehension
* Language-vocabulary and parts of speech
* Math-counting, numbers, addition, subtraction, shapes, and measuring
* Executive function and logic-focus, memory, and problem-solving

PERSONALIZED LEARNING EXPERIENCE
* Adaptive learning path allows each child to learn at their own pace
* Children learn independently in the Library-a collection of activities, books, and videos
* Kids can read books on their own or follow along with recorded audio narration

JOYFUL LEARNING
* Five whimsical characters encourage children to think and learn
* Highly interactive educational games and activities

EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
* Social-emotional-relationships, self-control, and empathy
* Creative expression-drawing, storytelling, and coloring

CREATED BY A TEAM OF EXPERTS
* Developed in collaboration with experts at the Stanford Graduate School of Education
* Aligns with Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework and Common Core Standards

ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY AND KHAN ACADEMY KIDS
Khan Academy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Khan Academy Kids was created by experienced early learning experts who have created 22 other titles and received 22 Parents' Choice Awards, 19 Children's Technology Review Awards, and a KAPi award for Best Children's App at the International Consumer Electronics Show. The Khan Academy Kids team is a passionate group who joined Khan Academy from Duck Duck Moose, a maker of popular educational apps for kids. Khan Academy Kids is 100% free, without ads or subscriptions.

ABOUT SUPER SIMPLE SONGS®
Skyship Entertainment™ is the creator of the beloved children's brand, Super Simple™. Their award-winning Super Simple Songs® combines delightful animation and puppetry with original and classic kids' songs to help make learning simple and fun. With over 10 billion views and 10 million subscribers on YouTube, their songs and videos are favorites with parents, teachers, and kids around the globe.

In the latest update, we fixed some bugs and made some minor updates. Please update your app for the best learning experience.

If you have any feedback, please contact us at khankids@khanacademy.org.

If you're enjoying Khan Academy Kids, please consider leaving us a rating or review! Happy learning!

Editors' Choice

Khan Academy Kids teaches early literacy, language, math, and social and emotional skills throughout its more than 1,000 games, videos, and stories. The app integrates science lessons from National Geographic Young Explorer magazine, music from Super Simple Songs, and content from children's nonfiction publisher Bellwether Media.

Wow! Just what my kids needed!

Kahn Academy Kids is the best educational kids app I have found for my kiddos. The lessons are fun and engages my kids making it exciting to learn. We now use this app daily as a supplement to what they are learning in school. I have a 3 and 6 year old and both of them have their own profile and things we are working on. My 6 year old is learning how to read and he loves reading the books on the app out loud to me. My 3 year old is learning her letter sounds and this app actually pronounces the letter sound correctly for her. Super impressed by that as I haven't found that to be common practice with education all apps - even on leap frog academy. The app is very intuitive to use and easy for my kids. I appreciate this because I can leave them to work on it independently or work alongside them - whichever I choose. Again, this is hard to come by. I also love how they get still get challenged by the lessons and actually grow and learn without feeling left discouraged. It gently nudges them if they get something incorrect. The math portion is wonderful as well and something I will be exploring more of. We have only had the app a week and there is SO much we can use this for. I felt compelled to leave a review already for the amount we have already used and enjoyed Khan Academy. Download this without hesitation for your child. You won't regret it.

We sincerely appreciate your encouraging review! So glad to hear how well Khan Kids is working out for your family.

A+ app for kids!

My daughter(age 7) used Khan Academy in school prior to the 2020 pandemic. Our school district listed Khan Academy as a resource to use when schools began closing in March. We used it in addition to her other school work during that time.

We decided to try this app for our son that is preschool age but needs just a little more time before introduction to a public setting and teachers; he's our spirited one. Our son (age 4) LOVES this app, he willingly selects Khan Academy when we give him screen time. He actually stays engaged for long periods of time and has fun doing it. He uses the information learned from his lessons and applies it to his toys or in real life settings. He's even begun to read short stories!!

In conclusion, my personal opinion is that this app is amazing. If you have children that are already in school and need a little something to stay engaged; get this app. If you have a wild tornado child (our son) that has shown interest in learning but they are not quite ready to be put into a school setting; get this app. They go at their own pace and advance to the next subject after mastering the first. They also offer additional resources on the website for your kids, such as circle time videos, free printable worksheets. I wish more educational websites/apps worked like Khan Academy! Again, my own personal opinion and each family/child is different, but Khan Academy is a perfect fit for us.

It's exciting to hear that your son is beginning to read the short stories! Thank you so much for the review! If you have any questions or suggestions for the app, feel free to reach out to khankids@khanacademy.org.

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Many times, students with autism have deficits in language development due to a lack of social engagement and social interpretation. The lack of developing key features of language contributes to limited vocabulary. Even when students have a large vocabulary, they often fail to understand how to use the words in different contexts or apply the rules for literacy with the vocabuarly.

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Students with autism are thought to have a lack of Theory of Mind which can affect reading comprehension. Students on the spectrum struggle with recognizing the thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and intentions of others which makes it hard for them to understand characters in text. They might be able to tell what is happening, but might not be able to tell why something is happening. They struggle to infer, predict, or relate to the characters in the story they are reading.

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Reading Comprehension Camp is a comprehensive camp that integrates auditory comprehension, encourages self-advocacy, and fosters problem-solving strategies. There are over 50 short stories, learning journeys can be customized, there are quizzes for comprehension that assess understanding with customizable questions, including inferences, cause & effect, sequencing, and more.

Reading Comprehension Campi has in-app data collection to monitor progress with visual graphs and detailed reports.

This app is useful because it displays colorful graphics that pertain to the short stories. Each level builds stamina by lengthening the stories. Also, the students can have the story read to them aloud as they follow along which has been shown to build comprehension skills.

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**Featured on AppoLearning, 2013 **
*Featured by Apple on iTunes as a New & Noteworthy in 77 countries"*
Reading Comprehension Camp is a multi-purpose app specifically designed to encourage language growth and reading comprehension. With multiple levels, 50 stories, and the ability to create personal stories this comprehensive app is perfect for students struggling with comprehension. The in-app data collection makes this app perfect for progress monitoring. Teachers, Reading Specialists, and Speech-Language Pathologists will love the customization, the graphed data, and the skills targeted. Students will love the engaging stories, creative art work, and the virtual awards that can be earned.
How to Play

Players may be imported into Reading Comprehension Camp from the Therapy Report Center or entered on the Readers page. Up to four players can be selected per session. With five (5) levels of stories available there are stories for most readers. Level 1 is designed for early readers (2nd grade); while level 5, with a Flesch-Kincaid readability level of 6-7 grades, is designed for older students.
When the story is selected the screen opens with a picture and text. Within the story the adult can customize each story. For the auditory learner it is possible to increase the picture size and decrease font size; for the older student or reader the picture size can be decreased while the text size increases. In addition, within each story is a record button which allows the student to record themselves to help with reading fluency and self-awareness.
Each story has an associated quiz to check for comprehension. Within the quiz, there are 11 types of questions available. The adult can determine if all questions will be asked, or select a certain type of question. The question types available include: who, what, where, when, why, how, inferences, cause & effect, compare & contrast, sequencing, and vocabulary & context.

Customization
Reading Comprehension Camp is highly customizable. Two settings tabs allow for customization of both the stories and the quizzes.
The stories
*Show awards/medals earned for each story
*Hide story tab
*Display story tab
*Select stories by level
*Create custom stories
The quizzes
*Number of answer choices
*Allow for hints (highlight area to look for answer)
*Display story art for referencing

Data Collection
Reading Comprehension Camp is compatible with The Therapy Report Center so data is easily managed. Within the app itself, a student report card is generated after every session. In the report card, a bar graph is shown to allow an easy-to-read visual of the students' progress. In addition, a narrative report is provided showing the type of questions attempted, results correct/incorrect, and percentage correct. These report cards can be exported to the Therapy Report Center, printed, or emailed.

Creating Stories
Need to encourage language skills in addition to reading comprehension? No problem! Reading Comprehension Camp allows the student to create his or her own stories. Students can create stories using Reading Comprehension Camp pictures or by importing their own pictures off the iPad. When creating their stories, the students will need to create a title, select a level, name the author, and generate quiz questions (and answers). Students will type and narrate the story and quiz questions.

Purpose
The purpose of Reading Comprehension Camp is to encourage both auditory and reading comprehension. In addition, by targeting story creation, the app allows for expansion of expressive language, sequencing, and narratives. These skills are critical to reading and language arts success in education. Reading Comprehension Camp allows students to explore these critical skills in an engaging way while using technology. Early monitoring of comprehension encourages students to self-advocate, ask for clarification, and use appropriate strategies for resolving problems.

Great for older students too!

My life skills and LD students in high school love this app! Before I let them click the answer, I have the students explain why they are picking it and where they found the supporting information in the story. Then we check to see if they were correct. It helps the student learn to infer from the presented information. Most of my students are used to looking for matching words. If they do that, they have to explain if those matching words match the idea in the question. This app really helps the students learn the "how" part of answering questions.

Great 'Data Day' App

This is my go to app for my students working on questions, context clues and general reading comprehension. I can let a student listen to the story when working with another student. My students actually ask for it. They live to see their scores. With five levels, it works for all my elementary students.

So many great target skills!

I couldn't love this app more for all of the different comprehension skills that are targeted. It is great that you can hide the answer choices and story to fade the level of scaffolding. I also love that you can target higher level comprehension skills for older children.

Thanks so much for taking the time to post such a positive review! It really means a lot to us!

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Compatibility

iPad

Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.

Mac

Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip.

Family Sharing

Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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