First Sight Words Professional - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

Help your kids become a great readers with First Sight Words Professional. With a focus on the core vocabulary your children will need throughout their lives, First Sight Words Professional includes over 300 of the most common words in the English language.

Based on the Dolch Word List, this app uses the same child-friendly design and simple interface that made First Words one of the all-time best selling educational apps for iOS. New features make it the ideal choice for use in the classroom, the car, or on the couch:

* With over 300 words, First Sight Words Professional includes five levels of core vocabulary to take your child from pre-k through 3rd grade, plus a list of nearly 100 common nouns.

* Each sight word is paired with a MINSPEAK® icon. Designed by linguists, speech pathologists, and information technology experts, MINSPEAK icons provide clear graphics for the full core vocabulary.

* Word management lets you choose which sight words to include in each word list. Focus on shorter words, longer words, or words with particular letter combinations. Hide words that a child finds particularly distracting and include words you'd like the child to focus on.

* Category management lets you control which lists of words are visible to children using the app. You can focus on younger vocabulary, older vocabulary, or provide the full range of words.

First Sight Words Professional uses uses the same intuitive interface that has made FirstWords so popular with preschoolers, kindergartners, and kids with special needs. Your child will giggle with delight at the beautifully drawn pictures and matching entertaining sounds, all the while building an excellent foundation for early language and reading fluency.

First Sight Words Professional helps kids develop:

* Fine Motor Control
* Letter Recognition
* Phonemic Awareness
* Word Recognition
* Reading Fluency

First Sight Words Professional includes a large number options:

* Phonics or Letter Names
* Uppercase, Lowercase, or Capitalized Words
* Spell Words Slowly or Quickly
* Serif or Sans-Serif font

Here's what educators and reviewers have said about earlier versions FirstWords:

“FirstWords is an app that teaches letters and words in fun and interactive way. Very easy to use these apps will help support your little ones learning with great illustrations and bright colors. Each app supports kids learning and encourages kids to explore and discover by revealing, rewarding and teaching.”
-- Fun Educational Apps

“Excellent - As a teacher, I love this game! Just what technology was meant to do!”
-- iTunes Review

“This app has great settings that let you control the level of difficulty for the child – either with lots of hints or almost none at all. The letters slide nicely into each word and when completed the child is rewarded by having the pictured animal enlarge and animate briefly.”
--Carisa Kluver at Digital Stortyime

“FirstWords:Deluxe is a very straightforward word-building game. Words are either said letter by letter as they are dragged into the appropriate gray boxes or, if chosen in the settings, a smaller set of words can be sounded out with phonics. This makes this game a treat for both pre-readers and early spellers.”
--Common Sense Media

"FirstWords is a great app -- as I said at the time, 'Leo loves First Words because it's fun and easy. I love it because he's learning to spell words, and the interface makes that learning error-free.'"
---Shannon Des Roches Rosa at Squidalicious

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2.67 out of 5

3 ratings in Canada

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French Version

The company advertises that their apps have French versions but this one doesn’t serm to have it. Really disappointing! Had I known, I would’ve purchased a different version!

A disappointment

The main problem with this application is that it basically uses the same format and engine of the other Learning Touch FirstWords apps. While this may work for words like "dog", "cat", and "car". It's not so effective on Dolch words like "will", "of", and "has". I'm not sure what designates this app as being a "pro" version other than different words and a higher price. If you aren't familiar with the FirstWords app format, you essentially get an object on the lower left hand corner of the screen representing the word to be spelled. There are a series of silhouetted boxes at the top of the screen showing the letters spelling out the word. There are tiles below that and the child drags the tile to the appropriate corresponding box to spell the word. The letter is spoken as selected and dragged to the box and the final word is said once the spelling is completed. The object representing the word then spins to the middle of the screen with a corresponding sound effect. Examples: "will" a picture of a guy I am assuming to be William Shakespeare (my 4 year old doesn't know Will Shakespeare) "of" a glass of orange liquid (I still can't figure what that means…) "like" a guy smiling beside the sun (ok. I guess he likes the sun or the sun likes him) "has" a guy with his arms open surrounded by dollar bills with a "+s" appended to the image "did" is a picture of a hand finger painting with a "+d" append to the image. While I understand the fundamental purpose of this app is probably to get kids to memorize the words, there is such a lost opportunity here. For example for the word "grow" instead of having a static picture of an Apple tree with a bunch of different sized apples on it, it would have been so much better to have an animation of an apple actually growing larger on the tree after the word is spelled. That way the child actually understands what grow means. Instead the apple tree just spins to the middle of the screen with a sound effect. Also, instead of just a generic sound effect at the completion of the a spelling, it would be so much better to actually have an example of the word in a sentence. Having the app say "we can see the apple grow on the apple tree" would not only be more representative of the meaning of the word grow, but it also reinforces a bunch of other Dolch words at the same time.

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Chart	Category	Rank
Top Paid	Ireland Education	30
Top Paid	Ireland	199
Top Paid	Singapore Education	469
Top Paid	Hong Kong Education	494

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