Educational+Games

[|Starfall]

Starfall is a free learn-to-read phonics website designed primarily for kindergarten through second grade. I often use this website to introduce the "letter of the week" or a word family. It offers beginning beginning readers interactive books, games, and videos. What is great about this site is that any early reader will be able to find something for them to do- great for differentiation. If a child gets stuck on a word, all one needs to do is press on a word and the word is sounded out and then read to them. Starfall also offers free downloads of materials which include short readers, writing and phonics journals, and more. Starfall has also rolled out with a new site called morestarfall.com. This site is geared towards kindergarten and it also helps with other essential skills such as shapes, colors, and basic math facts. My students just started using this site and love it. My students will often ask to play on this site when there is some down time or to use during the SmartBoard center.