Reading Websites

Reading during the early years helps the child in improving his/her language skills. Reading also helps a person be successful in life. It helps a person acquire a lot of information. Reading can also alleviate boredom or even shape a person's life.


Fortunately for us mothers, there are a lot of reading websites that would help us prepare our kids for reading or improve their reading skills.

Starfall.com is a website that teach preschool, kindergarten, and first grade children to read with phonics. This website offers exciting phonics games and online interactive books. It includes songs and a lot of animations for each letter of the alphabet, animated interactive books and other reading exercises. There are also a lot of downloadable materials such as handouts for classroom use from theStarfall.com's Download Center. Although Starfall.com has a free version parents can opt to subscribe for up to three computer at home and teachers can subscribe for their class.

Storyline Online provides interactive  stories read by Screen Actors Guild. Each book includes activities and lesson ideas. 

Kol Jr. Stories has a collection of online story books that are read aloud.

Clifford Interactive Storybooks offers interactive stories and games for early readers. Students has to click on the right word to complete a sentence on every page. 

In PBS KIDS GAMES children can choose reading games, letter games, spelling games, literacy games or vocabulary games among others to develop their reading skills.