• Nick Jr. This Well-Rounded Site Has Educational Games, Animated Stories and Much More to Entertain Your Non-Reader
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• Nick Jr. This well-rounded site has educational games, animated stories and much more to entertain your non-reader. • Disney Jr. There are tons of games available on this site, along with puzzles and online coloring pages that your child can color – no crayons necessary. • Learning Games for Kids. On this site your child can learn and sing songs, check out constellations, put together virtual puzzles and more, all without ever leaving the computer. • Sesame Street. Kids can discover new things with the many different games that are available on this site. • Jumpstart. Encourage your child to get creative and play in the Art Studio or School of Dragons. • Sheppard Software Preschool. Kids can find animals on a farm, in a forest, in the jungle, or under the sea on this site – just to name a few of the creative activities offered here. • Sprout. Let your kids play games featuring their favorite Sprout characters, like The Wiggles, Bob the Builder, Barney, Angelina and many more. • Fisher Price. Your preschooler can play a virtual piano and create his own songs or hunt for healthy food in a ‘seek and find’ style game. • Fun 4 The Brain. Matching and counting games are available on this site and can help your child learn beginning math skills while having fun. • Knowledge Adventure. Kids can play tic-tac-toe with the computer, an animated version of Go Fish and even Chinese Checkers, just to name a few of the games offered here. • Cool Math Games. Memory games, logic games, balloon pop and many more are available for preschool through high school students. • Turtle Diaries. From shape matching to coloring by letter, the games on this site can provide hours of fun for your preschooler. • Duplo Lego. If your kids like playing with Duplo blocks and Legos, they will probably enjoy playing on this website. • Boowa & Kwala. Kids can play guessing games and musical games, listen to stories and do much more when they explore what this site has to offer. • Thup. Go to school with monkey and learn to saw and hammer things, count, have word adventures and more. • Cookie. Let your child work on rhyming with Rhyme Time or catch some fish playing Hook the Fish on this entertaining website. • PBS. Based on programming found on PBS, these games will help your child improve developmentally. • Fungooms. Your child can create his own characters and dress them up as he wishes playing just one of the games found on this unique website. • File Folder Fun. This website provides educational opportunities for your child to complete worksheets online instead of having to print them out. Each activity is colorful and may entice your child to explore and learn. • Baby First. The developers on this site have made it very simple for young children to explore and play by using only two keys on the keyboard. Elementary Games When children start school they will begin rapidly learning new skills. Computer websites created just for young children provide a way for these primary students to practice what they are learning in school. Kids learn in different ways, so if your child doesn’t learn well from a book or by rote memorization, then playing math and spelling games online might be just the thing to make a concept click. These 20 sites will provide entertaining ways for your primary student to learn and play online. • Primary Games. Kids can try cooking games, action games, dress up games, educational games and more on this website. • Primary Games Arena. Try Grilled Cheese Please on this site, where the characters ate so much of one kind of food that they turned into that food. • Cyber Kidz Games. Art and music games are available on this site, as well as games that cover a variety of other subjects. • Brain Pop Junior. Kids learn by playing shark games, tree frog games and a game called Simple Machines. • Free Rice. By playing on this site kids can improve their language skills and have rice donated to the hungry. • Hooda Math. From pizza games to soccer games, there’s something to interest everyone when it comes to these math games. • Math Playground. Try to solve the tricky word problems or logic puzzles on this website and you can learn while having fun. • Kids Planet. Play an animal version of Concentration on this site or unscramble the puzzle pieces to figure out what the picture is. • Kids Astronomy. The games on this site are all about the galaxy, making them perfect for kids who love space travel. • Earth Rangers. There are 25 online games that kids can play on this site that will educate them about saving the environment. • National Geographic. Build your own virtual mobile and make it balance and move once you build it. • Star Fall. Kids can play games that will teach them how to tell time, learn the seasons, celebrate Earth Day and much more. • Apples 4 the Teacher. Your child can play a dozen different educational Dr. Seuss inspired games here. • Vocabulary Can Be Fun. Practice typing, spelling and vocabulary words when playing games on this site. • Webkinz. This online world is filled with many different games to play, jobs to do and pets to care for. • Club Penguin. Join this virtual world as a penguin avatar that allows you to play games and explore the various areas in the club safely. • Kids Spell. Kids can play spelling or word games on this site. • Spelling City. Use your kids’ actual spelling list to play games like Hang Man and word scramble to learn their spelling list for school. • ABC Ya. Let the kids enjoy seasonal games like word searches or strategy games. • Oswego. Math games like Ghost Blasters allow you to hunt ghosts while working on multiples of a particular number. Elementary Story Sites Kids learn to read more quickly when they hear the written word read to them aloud frequently. For families with two working parents, however, it’s often difficult to find the time to do this. That’s where some of these sites come in handy, since they provide audio files where the story is read aloud. Some sites even highlight the words while they are being read so that your child can follow along. Stories can also help to build your child’s imagination and retention of what is being read, and some offer questions to check understanding. Look through these 20 sites to see if you can find some stories to read with your child. • Magic Keys. You’ll find audio books that can be read to children as well as stories they can read here. • Silly Books. Kids can listen and watch an animated story and follow along with the words of the book. • Story Nory. There are hundreds of stories to choose from on this site, with new ones added each week, and the stories are read to kids by professional actors. • Story Time for Me. These books are like moving stories, and kids can follow the words while the pictures adjust with the storyline. • Story Place. This site has stories, activities that go along with the stories and additional reading list suggestions. • Between the Lions. Kids can listen to fables and folk tales on this site. Words are highlighted as they are read and the pictures change as the story does. • Goodnight Stories. Your child can decide whether he’d like to read a story, hear a story, see a story or finish a story online. • Aesop Fables. Kids will learn valuable lessons while listening to these stories. This site does not feature the actual words of the story for the child to follow. • Scholastic. Click on each line of the story and select the direction that the story will turn on each page. • Roy the Zebra. Read about Roy and then play interactive games about the story. When playing games, work on reading and comprehension. • Reading is Fundamental. Kids can read along with many classic stories as well as listen to songs and play games. • Reading Key. These stories are created using words at various reading levels so that as children can read books using words they have mastered. • Story Bee. Many stories are available for children to listen to online, whether the story is read or sung. No words to follow on this site. • Tumblebooks. This collection of children’s books is available through this library site, but you have to register before you can use it. • Lit 2 Go. Tons of classic books can be found on this website, like Moby Dick and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and each book is broken into chapters to listen to. • Children’s Books Online. Many classic stories can be found on this site that kids can read for themselves. • Read Me a Story Ink. You can find interesting stories by reading the summaries that are given and choose different reading levels to cater to your child’s needs. • Book Hive. Stories are told by a well-respected story teller and other stories are available to read online. • Read to Me. Entertaining children’s stories read by a famous ventriloquist, an actor or storytellers using magical voices and a fun attitude are found on this site. • Mighty Book. This is an animated site with background music and words that kids can follow as the storyteller reads them. Middle School Games Older children are more computer savvy than ever these days, and there are a wealth of useful games to help them learn keyboarding skills, language skills, math skills and more. As kids enter middle school they are looking for more sophisticated games online, like Minecraft that can include Skyping with players from around the world as they play the game.