Write To Read vs Sprout

The Peterson Directed Handwriting “Write to Read” app is our companion app to our entire line of handwriting curriculum. Write to Read is a fun, interactive way for your child to learn and practice their handwriting skills. Students will learn the strokes in order and practice writing on their own. Once they achieve mastery, they are rewarded with fun games and activities to keep them motivated. The Peterson Directed system is a developmental handwriting curriculum that makes writing a holistic activity, engaging the child’s creative, artistic, and reasoning abilities in ways that can be critical to future success. Putting pen to paper stimulates the brain like nothing else. “The College Board found that students who wrote in cursive for the essay portion of the SAT scored higher than those who printed.” According to the Iowa Reading Research Center “handwriting instruction still has benefits for early literacy development. Did you know that learning the Peterson Directed Method of handwriting creates powerful links to enhance learning of spelling, vocabulary and composition skills? Our proven methodology focuses on smooth, rhythmic motion with verbal prompts to improve attention span, motor skills, muscle memory and ultimately handwriting fluency. The goal is to create ‘instant words’ which can be easily written with minimal use of the visual feedback system. The word patterns free up brain processing power to focus on composition of the message rather than thinking about how to put the letters together on the page.

Sprout teaches a child to write — properly, from the first stroke. Most tracing apps check the shape. Sprout checks the order and the direction, because that is what a teacher checks, and it is the thing that has to be right before a child writes fluently. Start an 'a' in the wrong place and the letter still looks like an 'a' — until the day it has to be written quickly, and it falls apart. WHAT YOUR CHILD DOES • Traces every capital, every small letter and every digit from 0 to 9 with a finger • Hears the letter said aloud by a real recorded voice, not a robot • Meets the word behind it — A is for Apple — with a picture drawn for this app • Plays a game that asks for 'b' among b, d and p, so mirror-writing is trained out rather than ignored • Writes their own name, then real words FOUR HANDWRITING STYLES Schools disagree about letterforms. A French seven has a bar through it; a British one does not. Pick the hand your child's school actually teaches — Classic, European, Slanted or Simple — and every letter, number and word in the app is redrawn in it. Change it any time. WRITTEN IN YOUR LANGUAGE, NOT TRANSLATED INTO IT Sprout is not an English app with the buttons swapped. Each language has its own alphabet, its own words behind the letters, and its own recorded human voice. A Turkish child learns Ç and Ğ. A Spanish child learns Ñ. The picture for each letter is chosen so the word actually starts with that letter in that language. FOR THE GROWN-UP • A quiet report of which letters your child mixes up — not "she finds letters hard", but "she picks d when you ask for b" • A garden that grows one plant per letter learned, so progress is something a child can see • Left-handed mode, adjustable on-screen help, and a five-minute lesson that is a whole lesson NO ADS. NO TRACKING. There are no advertisements anywhere in Sprout, no analytics, and no third-party tracking. Your child's name is stored on the device and never leaves it. Sprout is free to try — your child writes their first letter before you are asked for anything. SUBSCRIPTION Sprout Monthly — $6.99 per month Sprout Yearly — $29.99 per year Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. It renews automatically unless you turn it off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://sprout-privacy.web.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://sprout-privacy.web.app/privacy.html