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Sightword Worksheets vs Learning Marathi

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

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About

Sightword Worksheets

This educational app focuses on teaching foundational sight words, crucial for early reading and writing development. It's part of a comprehensive curriculum designed to help children master essential vocabulary for reading and creative writing.

Highlights
  • Teaches foundational sight words
  • Part of a comprehensive reading curriculum
  • Aids in developing reading and writing skills
  • Focuses on vocabulary internalization
  • Supports creative writing activities
Features
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Center for Innovation in Education Sightword Worksheets Dekodiphukan Description The thirteenth of the fourteen apps that comprise the Baratta-Lorton Reading Program. The Reading Program is a reading and writing curriculum for beginning readers and any child who has already experienced difficulty in learning to read. 99% unique – 100% effective - 100% free Background for the fourteen apps The Baratta-Lorton Reading Program also known as Dekodiphukan (pronounced decode if you can) was developed by the Center for Innovation in Education whose many other offerings include Mathematics Their Way, the first non-traditional math curriculum adopted in by the State of California. Dekodiphukan has been in use in classrooms across the United States and Canada since 1985. The Program has been used to teach thousands of children to read and to write regardless of background or supposed lack of reading readiness. To date, no child using the program in a classroom setting has ever failed to learn to read or to write. This Dekodiphukan reading and writing curriculum is now a series of fourteen apps plus a parent-guide for the iPad that, within a period of six months to a year (or occasionally a bit longer for some special needs children), will enable every child using it to read and to write. Reading with enjoyment. Writing creatively. Dekodiphukan is a full fledged curriculum. It is a set of specific learning activities, not a set of games. The curriculum’s fourteen apps are all free with no ads - popup or otherwise - included. While the apps may be downloaded all at once and stored in a folder on the iPad, no more than two or three of the apps are used at any one time by the child. Sightword Worksheets The thirteenth of the Fourteen Apps Seventy-five words comprise half of all the words that appear in books written in English.  Mastery of these seventy-five words as sight words allows a child to recognize fifty out of every one-hundred words in almost any book.  Sixty-five percent of all the words the child will encounter in his or her first years of reading consist of just one hundred basic words.  The Sightword Worksheets teach this basic vocabulary. The “sight” in Sightword refers to the ability of the child to recognize the word instantly on sight, without the need of sounding it out.  The child who reaches this level can already sound out each word and, in fact, must do so to learn the word.  The Sightword Worksheets are not surrogate flash cards whose purpose is to cause the child to memorize words for instant parroting on demand.  Rather, they have as their purpose allowing the child to internalize a basic vocabulary of words that he or she can read and write quickly and with ease. Knowledge of—as opposed to memorization of—a basic set of words gives the child an extensive writing vocabulary for use in his or her creative writing activities.  A child who can already spell words like “the”, “is”, “and”, “we”, “they”, “with”, “on”, “can”, “down”, “all”, “from”, and so on, without having to stop and think about spellings, finds it much easier to write out what he or she wants to say.  Conversely, a child who must ask for assistance with even the most basic words spends so much time thinking about how to write and spell the words in the story that he or she can quickly lose track of what it was he or she wanted to say. The Sightword Worksheets are introduced after the child has completed all of the Writing Worksheets at both the two and three-sound levels.  This means that as the Sightword Worksheets are introduced, the child is already well practiced in use of the Decoding Chart. Sightword Worksheets Introduced after the child has completed the Writing Worksheets at the two and three-sound levels Teaches the child a basic site vocabulary of 157 words Audio tests are provided to insure the child knows the words

About

Learning Marathi

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Marathi Shika (Learn Marathi) is a simple app for our little ones to help them learn basic Marathi Language letters, numbers, shapes and colors. The app also provides corresponding English language words so that it's easy for little ones to remember what we call something in both languages.

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Learning Marathi at weekly against Sightword Worksheets's every 69 months. Learning Marathi also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.6). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sightword Worksheets ships an update every 69 months, Learning Marathi weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Sightword Worksheets versus Learning Marathi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSightword WorksheetsLearning Marathi
Price—Free — better
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 69 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS15.66.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBob Baratta-Lortonmanish khandekar

In-app purchases

None

Sightword Worksheets

No in-app purchases

None

Learning Marathi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sightword Worksheets free?
Pricing for Sightword Worksheets is not currently listed on the App Store.
Is Learning Marathi free?
Learning Marathi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sightword Worksheets or Learning Marathi have ads?
Neither Sightword Worksheets nor Learning Marathi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sightword Worksheets or Learning Marathi?
Sightword Worksheets ships an update every 69 months, and Learning Marathi weekly. Most recently, Sightword Worksheets was updated on October 2, 2026 and Learning Marathi on October 10, 2026.

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