LittleActivity vs Raz-Kids
Levelled digital readers with recorded fluency checks, sold to schools and teachers by Learning A-Z.
Last updated: 23 August 2026
Raz-Kids is a school product and one of the best-executed levelled reading systems there is — the recorded-reading fluency check is a feature no consumer app matches. It is reading only, priced per classroom, and it assumes a teacher is running it. LittleActivity is a whole-day product for families and teachers, free at the core.
Which one is right for you
Choose Raz-Kids if
A classroom teacher running guided reading who needs levelled texts and recorded fluency evidence.
Choose LittleActivity if
A family teaching at home, or a teacher who wants every subject rather than reading alone.
What each one actually is
What is Raz-Kids?
Also known as: Raz Kids, Learning A-Z, Reading A-Z, Kids A-Z, raz-kids.com
Raz-Kids is levelled digital readers with recorded fluency checks, sold to schools and teachers by Learning A-Z.
Related: Reading and phonics · K-12 education · Homeschool resources
What is LittleActivity?
Also known as: Little Activity, littleactivity.com
LittleActivity is a free educational platform for children from Pre-K to Grade 10, combining sequenced lessons in ten subjects, thousands of printable worksheets, games, and a homeschool system whose attendance, report cards, portfolio and transcript build themselves from the work a child actually completes.
Related: Homeschool curriculum · Printable worksheets · K-12 education · Common Core Standards
Raz-Kids vs LittleActivity, feature by feature
Twenty-four features in five groups. A dash means we have not established that row from their own public pages — it is not a “no”, and we would rather show the gap than guess at it.
Getting started and cost
What it takes to see the thing before you pay for it.
| Feature | Raz-Kids | LittleActivity |
|---|---|---|
| Usable free, with no accountCan a parent open it and use real content without signing up? | No | Yes |
| Card required to startA card taken up front turns a trial into an opt-out subscription. | Not established | No |
| Price published on their own siteA price you have to reach checkout to see is a price you cannot compare. | Not established | Yes |
| Charged per childDecides whether a second or third child doubles the bill. | Priced per classroom licence | No |
| Adverts shown to childrenIncluding house ads and upsell interstitials mid-activity. | No | No |
What it covers
How far it goes before your child ages out of it.
| Feature | Raz-Kids | LittleActivity |
|---|---|---|
| Grade rangeThe span the vendor claims on its own site. | Kindergarten to about Grade 5 | Pre-K to Grade 10 |
| SubjectsWhat is actually taught, not what is mentioned. | Reading only | Maths, reading, writing, science, social studies, art, music, coding, languages, critical thinking, money |
| Real Pre-K contentActivities a child who cannot yet read can do alone. | No | Yes |
| Grade 6 and aboveThe point most early-learning products stop. | No | Yes |
| Standards alignment publishedMatters for reporting in most US states. | Yes | Yes |
How it teaches
Whether it decides what happens today, or hands you a catalogue.
| Feature | Raz-Kids | LittleActivity |
|---|---|---|
| Plans the school day for youThe difference between a curriculum and a content library. | No | Yes |
| Sequenced, not browse-it-yourselfLessons that build on each other in a fixed order. | Yes | Yes |
| Per-subject placementA child ahead in reading and behind in maths is the normal case. | Reading-level assessment | Yes |
| Video instructionA person explaining, rather than a screen of practice items. | No | No |
| Live human teachingScheduled classes with a real teacher. | No | No |
Off the screen
What is left on the days the tablet is not the answer.
| Feature | Raz-Kids | LittleActivity |
|---|---|---|
| Printable worksheetsReal PDFs, not a web page you send to a printer. | Printable versions of the levelled readers | 5,947 free PDFs |
| Off-screen work for every school dayAn authored task per day, not an occasional printable. | No | 2,160 authored days |
| Printable wall chartsReference material for the wall behind the desk. | No | 600 wall charts |
| A full day can run on paperFor a broken tablet, a car journey, or a screen-time limit. | The printable readers work on paper | Yes |
Records and classroom
The paperwork, and whether it writes itself.
| Feature | Raz-Kids | LittleActivity |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance logRequired by law in a number of US states. | No | Yes |
| Report cardsGenerated from work done, not typed by a parent. | No | Yes |
| Portfolio of workFor states that require an annual review. | No | Yes |
| High-school transcriptThe document a college admissions office asks for. | No | Yes |
| Run a class with no student accountsNo roster upload, no email address per child. | No | Yes |
What Raz-Kids does better, and what we do instead
Raz-Kids against LittleActivity
Pros
- Recorded-reading fluency checks a teacher can listen back to — genuinely the best feature in this category
- A rigorous, well-known levelling system that maps onto guided reading practice
- Matched printable and digital versions of the same levelled text
- Deep integration with the wider Learning A-Z assessment tooling schools already use
Cons
- Free at the core, with no per-seat licence and no purchase order
- Every subject rather than reading alone
- A class runs from a six-character code — no roster upload, no accounts for students
- A planned day, printables across every subject, and wall charts
- Homeschool records: attendance, report cards, portfolio, transcript
The left column is what Raz-Kids is genuinely better at. The right column is not a list of their faults — it is what we do that they do not attempt. A product is allowed to not do something.
Pricing
We have not been able to read Raz-Kids’s current pricing from their live pages, so we are not going to quote it — see their own page. Ours is on our pricing page, before you sign up for anything.
Stay with Raz-Kids if…
You run guided reading in a classroom and the fluency recordings are your evidence. Nothing here replaces that.
Move to LittleActivity if…
You are a homeschooling family paying a classroom price, or you need the rest of the curriculum.
The one structural difference
Most families run a content product, a separate planner, and a spreadsheet for records, and nothing in that stack is the system of record. LittleActivity is one system: the same work that teaches your child produces the attendance, the report card, the portfolio and the transcript, and every school day has an authored off-screen task so a broken tablet does not end the day.
In numbers: 5,947 free printable PDFs and 2,160 authored off-screen school days, both counted from the catalogues themselves and checked in our build rather than written by hand.
How this comparison was made
- Their claims are theirs. Grade range, subjects and product shape are taken from what Raz-Kids says about itself on its own public pages, linked above.
- Prices are gated. A price appears only with the date a person read it on the vendor’s own page. Most pricing pages in this market render client-side and cannot be checked automatically, so most of these comparisons quote no price at all rather than repeat one that may be a year old.
- Our numbers are generated. Printable, poster and school-day counts come from the catalogues they describe and are verified in our build, so a marketing round number cannot creep in.
- A dash is not a cross. Where we have not established a row, the table shows a dash. We do not score a competitor down for something we did not check.
- We are not neutral. This page is written by one of the two products. That is why it leads with what Raz-Kids does better and names who should stay with it — judge the page on whether those sections are real.
LittleActivity vs Raz-Kids: common questions
Can a homeschooling family buy Raz-Kids?
Learning A-Z sells classroom licences, which is a shape and a price built for a school rather than one family. LittleActivity is free at the core for families and teachers alike, with no licence to negotiate.
Does LittleActivity record a child reading aloud?
No. Raz-Kids' recorded fluency check is the strongest single feature in levelled reading and we do not have an equivalent. Our reading assessment is comprehension questions and on-screen marking.
Does LittleActivity have levelled readers?
We have authored reading passages by grade with matched comprehension questions, plus thousands of bedtime stories. That is grade-banded rather than finely levelled in the Reading A-Z sense, which matters if you run guided reading formally.
Can I run a class on LittleActivity without student accounts?
Yes — you start a room, read a six-character code aloud, and students join without an email address or a roster upload. Raz-Kids requires student accounts under a teacher licence.
Should I choose LittleActivity or Raz-Kids?
Choose Raz-Kids if: A classroom teacher running guided reading who needs levelled texts and recorded fluency evidence. Choose LittleActivity if: A family teaching at home, or a teacher who wants every subject rather than reading alone. Both are real answers — the deciding question is usually whether you want one subject or one tool done well, or the whole school day planned, printed and recorded.
How much does Raz-Kids cost compared with LittleActivity?
We have not been able to read Raz-Kids's current pricing from their live pages and check it, so we do not quote a figure — see their own site for it. LittleActivity's price is published on our pricing page before you sign up, it is one family price rather than a charge per child, and the games, printables and lessons are free with no account.
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