![]() Pick a Picture: This game presents a word and four pictures. Another version of this game is called Picnic on Pluto, and a further version is called Dragon’s Den. If you’re wrong, he moans and falls in the water. If you’re right, a pirate does a dance on the water. If it’s a real word, put it in the treasure chest. Phonics Play Buried Treasure: Click on the words “get coin” and a coin appears with something written on it. Really great except I wish they wouldn’t treat very decodable words like “is”, “and” and “has” as whole chunks, and sound them out too. ![]() Starfall: Collection of phonetically graded onscreen books, and when you click on a word it is sounded out, with each letter highlighted as it’s said. The game then generates 3-sound words with this vowel, and the learner has to decide whether this is a real word or not, and then choose whether to change the first sound, last sound, or both, to make another word. A bit klunky-looking, and there is the occasional “ar” word (I guess it’s American), but kind of cute.ģ Letter House: Choose a vowel sound (you can also choose a rime, but I’d suggest sticking to a single vowel). Reading Machine: A picture appears with three words, and you have to click on the word that matches the picture to get applause. The Word Wheels: Make words by starting and stopping wheels containing onsets and rimes, then scroll through the pictures to find the matching picture, and press the “check” button. In the hardest level you have to decide if they’re words from a particular word group, e.g. Jim’s Whirlyword Machine: A machine that seems a bit more like a poker machine than I’d really like (but that might just be me) spins letters around and when they stop you have to read the word created and decide whether it’s a real word. Unfortunately you can’t click on the choices so you can hear them as well as see them, and a lot of the time it’s possible to do this activity by visually matching the ends of the words, but anyway, it should help develop awareness of rhyme and sound patterns in words. River Rhyming: Help a character cross a river by listening to and looking at a word, then clicking on a rhyming word from a selection of three. Parental assistance is probably needed here, to make sure it’s successful and fun. ![]() inkwell) to shoot the spaceship before it shoots you. Phonic Fighter: A letter appears on an alien spaceship, and then you have to click on a picture that starts with that letter (but there’s no spoken words to tell you what each picture is, and some of them are a bit tricky e.g. Letters and Sounds Phase 2: Initial Sounds Match: This is a memory game where you have to match a letter with a picture that starts with that letter. (update 22/8/15, the link to this program no longer works and I can’t find a new one, sorry). When you get it right, a fish giggles and a talk bubble says “well done”, when you make a mistake it just says “oh no” and keeps going. all the d’s) and not any of the other letters. d), and then a range of letters start appearing and disappearing in a fish tank, and the learner’s job is to click on all the target letters (e.g. Sound Sea: Choose a target letter from the drop-down menu (e.g. Phoneme pop: Choose a group of letters and sounds, and then one of these is spoken and the child has to pop all the bubbles that letter is attached to, and get them to fall into a container at the bottom of the screen. Free 7-day trial, after which they invite you to subscribe. Phonics Hero: This is the internet version of a great little Ipad app that starts off teaching basic sound-letter correspondences in fun activities, and works its way systematically up to spelling and reading words. Note that a few of these games take a while to load, as they contain a lot of sounds and pictures, so be ready to distract/amuse your learner while that happens, so they don’t just decide the program isn’t working and take their goldfish internet attention span elsewhere. Here are a few good-quality, free literacy games on the internet, sorted from very simple to more complex, which you might like to try persuading your kid or kids are fun. Holidays are coming up, when kids like to muck around on computers, and parents try to get them to use computers for LEARNING, cleverly disguised as fun. ![]() Free literacy games on the internet 5 RepliesĢ020 update: this is a 2012 blog post and not all games listed are now available.
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