Updated on October 26, 2018
Dozens of games, sites, and apps hold the interest of beginning readers. Learning to read is hard work and takes lots of practice. These games and sites feature fun and colorful interactives with animations to engage children as they practice their skills in letter sounds, phonics, phonemic awareness and sight word recognition. Some of the websites also help kids learn word patterns and word families.
Read reviews of some of the best in these articles:
From site: Letter Sounds helps children make the first, vital connection between the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they represent. Children move pictures to the letters that make the first sounds of the word that describes the picture.…
From site: Learn Letters teaches children to know and make the 26 letters of the alphabet. Using the shapes the letters have in common, the child is guided as he combines shapes to make the lower case letters of the…
From site: Bridge to Reading is a computer program that takes a child on the journey from being a non-reader to being a beginning reader. From the first screen, the child is reading a story. Pictures, sound, and animation provide a…
This is a premier website and app for children learning to read. Colorful animations and child narrators guide beginning readers through a vast variety of activities. Learn the alphabet and how the letters sound in sentences. Read some books and…
From site: This online activity is designed for beginning and struggling readers to help them recognize word patterns and learn about onset and rime. Students are first asked to select a vowel, and are then presented with a series of…
From site: Picture Match is designed to give new readers practice with identifying beginning-letter and short- and long-vowels sounds through a simple, fun game. In the beginning-letter sounds section, a picture of an object (for example, a car) is displayed,…
From the site: Learning to recognize letters is integral to early literacy. But how can you keep your students practicing until they are fluent? The ABC Match game meets this challenge by offering students the chance to match initial letters…