Comparison

First Steps to Reading Fluency vs Kindergarten Practice

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

First Steps to Reading Fluency

This educational game offers personalized practice for letter names, sounds, and sight words to build foundational reading fluency. It aims to help young learners achieve automaticity in these essential skills, aligning with kindergarten learning standards.

Highlights
  • Letter name practice
  • Letter sound practice
  • Sight word practice
  • Personalized practice
  • Automaticity building
  • Kindergarten learning standards alignment
Features
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First Steps to Reading Fluency is designed to provide players personalized, deliberate and engaging practice of letter names, letter sounds, and sight words for the purpose of achieving automaticity of these foundational reading skills. Automaticity is the ability to perform a skill with a high degree of accuracy and speed with the ultimate goal of well-practiced fluent performance. Achieving automaticity of letter names, letter sounds, and sight words is important to perform higher-order reading skills. These foundational reading skills are part of state and national learning standards for kindergarten. This game requires an account to be created outside of the app itself, it requires both a parent/teacher and a student account. The student account is the one used to sign into the game itself. To create an account go to https://eruditelearninglab.unl.edu/Live/ then in the top right of the screen press parental/teacher controls, then press register. Or in the app press new user.

About

Kindergarten Practice

This app offers interactive flashcards, matching games, and quizzes to help young children learn essential kindergarten skills. Topics include letters, numbers, sight words, shapes, and basic math. Progress is tracked with stars and detailed quiz scores.

Highlights
  • Flashcards for letters and numbers
  • Matching games
  • Quizzes with score tracking
  • 2D shape recognition
  • Basic math practice
  • Progress stars
Features
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Kindergarten Practice features Flashcards, Matching and Quizzes for the basics needed for kindergarteners. This includes letters, numbers, sight words, 2d shapes, simple math and more in future updates. Each time your child completes a practice section a star is added for indication. Each time your child takes a quiz the grade and percentage is stored on the associate button and the detailed quiz data is accessible through the scores button.

Screenshots

First Steps to Reading Fluency4 screens
Kindergarten Practice4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: First Steps to Reading Fluency at none against Kindergarten Practice's 1. First Steps to Reading Fluency also leads on iOS requirement (7.0 vs 12.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Kindergarten Practice sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. First Steps to Reading Fluency asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for First Steps to Reading Fluency against 5.0 for Kindergarten Practice. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
First Steps to Reading Fluency versus Kindergarten Practice: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFirst Steps to Reading FluencyKindergarten Practice
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size402 MB83 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUniversity of Nebraska - LincolnJustin Jaeger

Customer experience

First Steps to Reading Fluency

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Kindergarten Practice

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

First Steps to Reading Fluency

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Kindergarten Practice

Subscriptions1
  • Kindergarten practice Monthly$1.991 Month

Questions

Is First Steps to Reading Fluency free?
First Steps to Reading Fluency is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kindergarten Practice free?
Kindergarten Practice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, First Steps to Reading Fluency or Kindergarten Practice?
First Steps to Reading Fluency and Kindergarten Practice are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do First Steps to Reading Fluency or Kindergarten Practice have ads?
Neither First Steps to Reading Fluency nor Kindergarten Practice shows ads.

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