Fasty Letters
Education
Letter recognition practice for ages 4–7.
Letter names, uppercase and lowercase, with the weak letters coming back often. Free on iOS, no ads.
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Early literacy: letters for ages 4 to 7
Letter recognition guides for parents and pre-K and kindergarten teachers, built around Fasty Letters, a free iOS letter game that speaks letter names.
Before a child reads, they have to know the letters: the name, the capital shape, and the lowercase shape. That is 52 things to recognize, and most 4- to 7-year-olds know some of them cold and keep missing a handful. These guides are about finding that handful and practicing it without re-drilling the letters a child already knows.
Fasty Letters is the app behind the guides. It is a free iOS game for ages 4 to 7 with two modes, Letter Match and Letter Recognition. The audio is letter names, capital A and a, uppercase B. It tracks all 52 letter-case pairs separately and brings the least-mastered one back every third question. It does not teach letter sounds, tracing, or blending, and the guides say so when a sound or handwriting job comes up.
Start with the letter recognition guide if you want the practice rule. Use the letter check if you want to know which letters a child knows today. The uppercase and lowercase guide covers the matching skill. Letter names and sounds, letter reversals, the ages 4 to 7 guide, and the app comparison fill in the questions parents ask next.
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Guides & tools
- Letter recognition practice for ages 4 to 7
What letter recognition is, the one practice rule that matters, five-minute activities that follow it, and what a round of Fasty Letters does.
- A five-minute letter recognition check
How teachers check which letters a child knows, how to do the same thing at home in five minutes, and how to turn the misses into practice.
- Matching uppercase and lowercase letters
Why a child who knows capital G can miss lowercase g, which pairs to match first, and what Letter Match in Fasty Letters does.
- Letter names and letter sounds: which one to practice
Bee is a letter name. /b/ is a letter sound. A 4- to 7-year-old needs both, in roughly that order, and the tools for each are different.
- Letter reversals: b, d, and the letters that flip
Mixing up b and d is normal before about age 7. The fix has two halves, seeing and writing, and most tools only work on one of them.
- Learning letters at ages 4 to 7
What letter practice looks like from pre-K through first grade, why a letter-a-week march is slow for the letters a child already knows, and five-minute activities that are not.
- Alphabet apps by job: which one does what
Four free alphabet apps compared on the same facts from their App Store listings: the job, price, ads, platform, offline use, and what each one does not do.
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- Building education apps kids actually reopen
Times tables, letter recognition, and short adaptive rounds. What FastyFacts and Fasty Letters do, and who each one is for.
- Guide: choosing the right Swizzle Works learning app
Match age, skill goal, and play style to the right Swizzle Works learning experience.
Frequently asked questions
Who is this hub for?
Parents and pre-K and kindergarten teachers of children ages 4 to 7 who are learning letter names and the uppercase and lowercase shapes. It is not a reading curriculum.
Does Fasty Letters teach letter sounds?
No. The app speaks letter names and asks the child to find the matching shape. Letter sounds, tracing, handwriting, and blending are different jobs. The letter names and sounds guide explains where each one fits.
What does Fasty Letters cost and where does it run?
It is free on iPhone and iPad, iOS 18.6 or later, with no ads, no in-app purchases, and no account. There is no Android or browser version. Gameplay works offline.
Where should I start?
The letter recognition guide explains the practice rule. The letter recognition check shows how to find out which letters a child knows today.
Where are the math facts games?
FastyFacts is the times tables app, and its guides live on the math facts practice hub, linked above. This hub is only about letters.