Collection

Learning to read

Phonics games, read-along stories and picture-book libraries.

• Khan Academy Kids: An early-learning app of books, reading and math activities, videos and creative play.
• PBS KIDS Games: Games and videos from PBS KIDS programs, gathered in one browser destination.
• Sago Mini School: Preschool counting, tracing, drawing and puzzle activities set around everyday topics.
• Montessori Preschool: A Montessori-inspired app covering early reading, numbers, art and practical-life activities.
• SplashLearn: A browser catalog of math games sorted by concept and grade, from early counting and shapes to later elementary topics.
• ABC Kids – Tracing & Phonics: Children trace capital and lowercase letters, hear the sounds they make and match letter shapes.
• HOMER: Fun Learning For Kids: Letter activities, stories, number games and creative tasks are arranged into a single learning path.
• Epic – Kids' Books & Reading: A digital library where children browse stories and nonfiction, listen to Read-To-Me books and audiobooks, and look up words with an audio dictionary.
• Reading.com: A parent and child go through scripted phonics lessons together, followed by decodable stories and practice games.
• Reading Eggs: Pre-reading, first reading, systematic phonics and later comprehension are split into separate programs aimed at different ages.
• Teach Your Monster to Read: Children design a monster and take it through games that match letters to sounds, blend words and read sentences.
• Hooked on Phonics Learning: Guided reading activities come with an ebook library meant to go alongside the lessons.
• Teach Monster: Reading for Fun: Recipes, signs and instructions are the reading material in a village adventure where helping characters earns books for a monster’s shelf.
• Vooks: Animated storybooks with narration, where each word is highlighted as it is read aloud.
• Endless Reader: Animated words are built letter by letter, dropped into short sentence puzzles and then acted out in a little scene.
• Starfall: Starfall offers a sequence of clickable reading activities that move from letter sounds to short words and connected stories.
• ABCya: A large catalog of short browser games covering math, reading, art, typing and other elementary subjects.
• Arcademics: Short arcade-style games for elementary subjects, with a sizeable math selection sorted by grade and skill.
• ictgames: Browser games and teaching tools tied to the UK primary curriculum.
• Education.com: A searchable library of games, worksheets, lesson plans and hands-on projects.
• IXL: Practice organized into detailed skill lists for math, language arts, science and more.
• BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr.: Animated explanations followed by quizzes, drawing and vocabulary activities on the same topic.
• Sumdog: Adaptive math and spelling practice set inside game-based challenges.
• Endless Alphabet: Kids drag wiggly, talking letters back into place to rebuild a word, then watch monsters act out its meaning.
• Night Zookeeper: Kids draw a magical animal, then write stories, poems and articles inside an adventure set in the Night Zoo.
• Osmo Genius Starter Kit: Kids move real tangram pieces, number tiles and letter tiles in front of a tablet, and the games react to what they build.
• Nessy Fingers Touch Typing: Kids learn touch typing by typing real words, building their spelling along the way.
• Dr. Panda – Learn & Play: Little ones appear to count, match letters, sort shapes and puzzle through small logic games alongside Dr. Panda and his friends.
• Hungry Caterpillar Play School: Kids trace letters, count, paint, make music and listen to stories in a preschool built around Eric Carle’s caterpillar.
• Alphablocks World: Kids watch Alphablocks clips, sing phonics songs and read interactive books that use the sounds they just heard.
• Alphablocks: How to Write: Kids trace pre-writing lines, letters and numbers with the Alphablocks, each letter paired with a short rhyme.
• PAW Patrol Academy: Preschoolers work on letters, numbers, shapes and feelings during missions with the PAW Patrol pups.
• Circle Round: Kids appear to settle in for folktales from many cultures, performed as radio plays with a cast and music.
• Story Pirates Podcast: Kids hear stories dreamed up by other kids performed as sketch comedy and songs, and some go on to write their own.
• Stories Podcast: Kids wind down with a weekly story, from retold fairy tales to serialized classics and original tales.
• Lions and Legends: Kids listen to myths, fables and folktales from many cultures, retold as fantastical audio adventures.
• Classics Clubhouse: Kids hear classic books like Around the World in 80 Days retold as serialized family audio adventures.
• Novel Effect: Kids hear music and sound effects chime in as a picture book is read out loud.
• Bookbot: Kids read decodable books out loud while the app listens along and steps in on tricky words.
• Ello: Kids read aloud to Ello, a friendly elephant tutor who listens, helps with slips and adjusts the next session.
• Libby, the library app: Kids borrow ebooks, audiobooks and read-along picture books from their local public library.
• Yoto: Kids slot a card into a screenless speaker to play audiobooks, music, podcasts and stories themselves.
• Phonics Hero: Kids help superhero Zak rescue his friends by playing phonics games that build from letter sounds to sentences.
• StoryJumper: Kids write and illustrate their own storybook, record their narration and can turn it into a printed book.
• MakeBeliefsComix: Kids build comic strips from ready-made characters, speech bubbles and story prompts.
• Rebel Girls: Kids listen to audio stories about real women from history and around the world, plus sleep stories and creative activities.
• Storyberries: Kids read and listen to bedtime stories, fairy tales, poems and chapter books sorted by age and reading time.
• Ranger Rick: Kids meet wild animals through Ranger Rick’s stories, photos, reading games, videos and a wildlife podcast.
• Storyline Online: Filmed readings of children’s books, with actors reading aloud while the illustrations appear on screen.
• StoryWeaver: A multilingual picture-book library from Pratham Books, covering everyday life, adventures, science and nature.
• International Children’s Digital Library: A simplified archive of children’s books from around the world, kept online after an earlier closure announcement.
• Free Kids Books: A collection of downloadable picture books, stories and educational texts gathered from many contributors.
• Oxford Owl for Home: A children’s eBook library paired with guidance on phonics and reading at home.
• Unite for Literacy: Short picture books with narration available in many home languages.
• Gus on the Go: A set of language apps that introduce vocabulary through illustrated lessons, reviews and games.
• Storynory: An audio-story site and podcast with original adventures, fairy tales, myths, poems and some factual stories.
• African Storybook: Illustrated reading material in African languages, with tools for finding, using and adapting stories.
• Book Dash: Illustrated books to read online or download, with many South African settings and languages.
• Let’s Read: Let’s Read is a digital library of children’s picture books drawn from communities across Asia and the Pacific.
• Literacy Cloud: Room to Read’s Literacy Cloud is an online library of children’s books, with read-aloud videos and material for adults who help children read.
• Storybooks Canada: Storybooks Canada offers illustrated stories with text and audio in English, French and many immigrant and refugee languages.
• Indigenous Storybooks: Indigenous Storybooks gathers illustrated stories, text and, where it exists, audio for children, families and educators.
• Nal’ibali Stories: Nal’ibali’s audio-story page collects recorded stories in South African languages.
• British Council LearnEnglish Kids: LearnEnglish Kids is the British Council’s site of English-language games, songs, stories, videos and printable activities.
• The Fable Cottage: The Fable Cottage retells well-known tales for language learners, with narration, optional parallel English text and videos for many stories.
• Duolingo ABC: Duolingo ABC is an early-reading app for learning to read and write in English.
• Read Along by Google: Read Along by Google pairs stories and word games with an on-screen reading companion that listens as a child reads aloud.
• Little Fox: Little Fox is a library of animated stories and songs for children learning English, sorted by level and series.
• VL2 Storybook Apps: VL2 Storybook Apps are illustrated digital books that pair signed storytelling with written text, made by Motion Light Lab at Gallaudet University.
• Start with a Book: Start with a Book pairs themed booklists with activity guides, writing ideas and links to multimedia.
• NASA StarChild: NASA StarChild is a small astronomy site with two levels of material on the solar system, the universe and space exploration.