www.Starfall.com is an educational website focused on teaching early phonics skills. It features a number of activities to encourage kids who are learning to read. The activities build on each other, starting with learning the alphabet and its associated sounds, and followed by reading simple online books and more advanced reading activities.
What Does it Offer: There are lots of interactive games and a full curriculum to purchase. There are a few free worksheets which go along with the online activities. Additionally, they sell decodable early reader books from $5-$15.
Educational Impact: Starfall uses a phonics-based learning system that is supported with both online games and activities and a print series. Skills taught include: phonemic awareness, systematic phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.
My daughter loves this site. She is learning to use a mouse to point and click and she really enjoys the alphabet chants.
They have a whole game and a book about growing a plant. I think I will purchase the book, buy a pot and some seeds, and do a project with her this year.
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