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British Council LearnEnglish Kids
LearnEnglish Kids is the British Council’s site of English-language games, songs, stories, videos and printable activities.
Instead of one long course, it is made of short pieces to dip into: a vocabulary game, a song, an animated story. Familiar topics such as animals or family make an easy opening, and the words can carry over into conversation away from the screen. There is also a section of advice for adults on bringing English into everyday family time.
- Ages
- Ages 5–12
- Works on
- Web browser
- Topics
- Reading, Languages
- Languages
- English
- Listed
- 2026-10-11
What kids do
- Play a vocabulary game
- Sing along to a song
- Watch a short story
- Do a printable activity
Who it suits
The British Council gives ages 5–12. Some activities ask for a lot more reading than others, which matters most at the younger end.
Notes for parents
Registering opens up commenting and asking questions on the site. The games, songs, stories and videos are a separate starting point.
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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.
- 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.