When you are looking at the phonic game.com websites have a look at my favorite sites.

I have been teaching my kids to read for a number of years now and I’ve had a look at many phonic game.com sites. Some are good, some are not so good and others are downright useless. The best phonic game sites

that my kids like to play are Starfall and Genkienglish, a site out of Japan in English. There are many other phonic game.com sites to teach kids phonics and here are some of the others I like, the PBS kids site, Game Goo, Scholastic and Sadlier-Oxford.

The main problem I have found with most sites is it can take a long time to navigate around the site, and sometimes the games take forever to download. But after a while you soon navigate to certain sites that you like.

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I have found the games are pretty similar on all the sites but the kids like the variety of the new site. Also I like to play the game with my kid to make sure she does something other than just click, click, click. I read the words or the sounds and get the kid to read after me, this way at least the kid is learning something other than where the cards are on the screen.

Another thing I like to do is make up the words in sandpaper letters and get the kid to trace the letters or words while saying the word. This off screen activity helps to implant the word and letters in the child’s mind. Also it ties playing the game on the screen with another learning activity as well as teaching the child to write.

For more information about the phonics courses, including a Montessori course I recommend, see our teach reading page.

To have a chat to other parents and to find out more about learning to read go to our forum.

Thank you for your time

Peter Legrove