SNissenbaum: Acadience Phonics and Reading Resources

Acadience Phonics and Reading Resources

This is a list of resources for families to use at home. The activities range from kindergarten to third grade levels. All of these activities will help struggling readers gain valuable skills.

A reminder about fluency (reading smoothly and with expression)- Rereading a text is the best way to gain fluency. Having your child read the same book or story over and over helps them build phonics skills and the confidence they need to read fluently.

Kindergarten

http://starfall.com/

A free website for reading skills. The skills follow a path of letters and involve games, books, and videos about the targeted skill.

https://learn.khanacademy.org/khan-academy-kids/

This is a free app you can download. Here is the description from their website: Our personalized learning path dynamically adapts, ensuring each child is presented with activities, books, educational videos, and creative lessons that allow them to learn at their own pace, creating an individualized experience for every learner.

Kids can also learn independently in the Khan Academy Kids Library—a curated collection of activities, books, videos, and coloring pages. Our book reader allows kids to follow along with recorded audio narration or read on their own across our fiction, non-fiction, and fiction leveled books.

https://bookflix.digital.scholastic.com/

An enormous pairing of free fiction and nonfiction books on specific topics. Books can be read aloud, if needed.

1st Grade

Reading eggs

Reading Eggs makes learning to read interesting and engaging for kids, with great online reading games and activities.

Epic

Access over 40,000 books that are able to be explored and read!

Starfall

Starfall was developed in the classroom by teachers and opened in August 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read. Since then it has expanded to include standards in language arts and mathematics for preschool through fifth grade and above. The program emphasizes exploration, play, and positive reinforcement—encouraging children to become confident and intrinsically motivated. Due to the engaging content that “feels like play,”

Reading Raven

Step-by-step curriculum lets kids learn at their own pace.

Multi-sensory reading games that children find engaging.

Based on proven phonics-based approach.

Customizable for children ages 3 to 7.

Teach Your Monster

With the help of friendly monsters, playful design and out-of-this-world storytelling, we work with leading academics to create beautifully crafted games kids love to play.

Spark Kids

Spark Reading for Kids is a library of short texts with embedded comprehension quizzes. The texts span a variety of topics -- including both fiction and nonfiction -- and are categorized by grade level, from second to eighth. Students can browse through the texts by topic or grade level, and choose one to read.

Vooks

Vooks is an entire library of storybooks brought to life with beautiful animation, read-aloud narration, engaging music and sound, and read-along text. We’re educational, safe, and ad-free screen time that inspires a lifelong love of reading!

Learn with Homer

We combine your child’s unique interests with their age and current learning level to create a personalized learning journey they love that builds essential skills for school and life!

Khan Academy

Students practice at their own pace, first filling in gaps in their understanding and then accelerating their learning.

Oz Phonics

Oz Phonics is an iPad-based reading system that caters for beginning readers and students from non-English speaking backgrounds. Our system is used by parents/carers, teachers and speech pathologists. In addition to iPad apps, we provide free printable worksheets, and firmly believe that interest and help from a teacher or parent, are what makes a good educational app great.

Monster Phonics

Monster Phonics is a complete phonics programme used in primary schools. Help your children to read and spell the first 300 High-Frequency Words with Monster Phonics Apps. Once learned these words stay with children forever. The first 300 High-Frequency Words make up 65% of all reading texts so learning these words quickly is incredibly important for all children. The apps are an ideal way for parents to support learning at home.

Phonics Hero

It’s step-by-step, building from sounds to single words and then sentences, with children making daily leaps toward conquering reading and spelling.

Confidence in reading and spelling soars.

Children love it: frustration-free learning with engaging games and a cool storyline!

3 years of content will take your child from sounding out their first word to the limitless world of independent reading.

2nd Grade

https://www.readingbear.org/

A free website for letter sound practice.

Eggy Phonics

This is a free website of spelling games. You have to play past the first round for this website to be helpful.

Teach Your Monster

This a link to the apps or web-based programs for Teach Your Monster. You need a parent email to sign up but it is completely free.