Hooked on Phonics Learning

What kids do

• Practice reading skills in guided activities
• Read companion ebooks
• Go back over skills using the progress information

Who it suits

Hooked on Phonics gives ages 3–8. Children just beginning to sound out words look like the natural audience.

Notes for parents

Progress information is shown in the app, so a parent can see which skills have come up and which could use another round.

In these guides

• Learning to read at home: apps for each stage, from letter sounds to reading for fun: Phonics apps, first-book libraries and read-aloud helpers for ages 3 to 8, sorted by reading stage: letter sounds, blending, first books and reading for fun.

More Reading

• 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.
• 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.