Comparison

Picture Packets vs CloudLabs Geometric optics

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

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About

Picture Packets

This app is part of a comprehensive reading and writing curriculum designed for beginning readers or those who have struggled with literacy. It focuses on developing the ability to blend sounds and remember words to read entire phrases, building upon foundational phonetic skills.

Highlights
  • Part of a 14-app reading curriculum
  • Focuses on blending sounds to form phrases
  • Develops memory for blended words
  • Builds upon phonetic skills
  • 38 Picture Packets pages
Features
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Center for Innovation in Education Picture Packets - Phrases Dekodiphukan Description The eighth 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. Picture Packets - Phrases The eighth of the Fourteen Apps There are 38 Picture Packets pages. The prerequisites for beginning Phrase Picture Packets are knowing all of the sounds and being able to blend two and three sound words without any audio hints. The difficulty for the child who is learning to blend two and three sound words is in hearing the word formed by the sounds.  At the phrase level the child already knows how to blend sounds together to form words.  The challenge for the child now is remembering each of the words already blended so that by the time he or she has finished blending the last word, the child still remembers the earlier words blended.  The phrase level gives practice in this remembering. Picture Packets - Phrases Prerequisites - knowing all of the sounds and being able to read two and three sound words The skill of reading individual words is expanded to include reading whole phrases

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CloudLabs Geometric optics

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In this free practice, a table is available for the study of geometric optics, where it is possible to select and use lenses, mirrors, light sources, test objects, and filters, among other instruments, whose position and angle can be adjusted. The images formed by the objects can be visualized through an electronic eye and the optical phenomena, through an electronic screen.

Screenshots

CloudLabs Geometric optics1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: CloudLabs Geometric optics at 3 against Picture Packets's 1. CloudLabs Geometric optics also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On ads and in-app purchases 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

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Picture Packets versus CloudLabs Geometric optics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPicture PacketsCloudLabs Geometric optics
Price—Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 69 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.69.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB83 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBob Baratta-LortonJiovany Orozco

In-app purchases

None

Picture Packets

No in-app purchases

None

CloudLabs Geometric optics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Picture Packets free?
Pricing for Picture Packets is not currently listed on the App Store.
Is CloudLabs Geometric optics free?
CloudLabs Geometric optics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Picture Packets or CloudLabs Geometric optics have ads?
Neither Picture Packets nor CloudLabs Geometric optics shows ads.

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