Teach Your Monster to Read is the perfect site for "ready to read" or beginning readers. Completely free, you can register as many children under your account as you like. There are 3 levels: First Steps, Fun with Words, and Champion Reader. You can set your students at any level and the game will automatically move them up as they complete all the skills. Emerson is working through First Steps and Eli just moved up from Fun with Words to Champion Reader. They LOVE playing because the games and the monsters are a blast...I usually have to drag them away from the computer when their time's up. And I love it because they are learning a lot. There aren't any "fluff" games that don't really teach them anything...something I often find on other free sites. It's all learning, but they're too busy having fun to notice! Click on the graphic to visit the site and check it out for yourself!
NOTE: There is a phone app available for this site that you can download for a fee.
We have used Keyboarding Without Tears (highly recommend it!) for typing practice the last few years, but when our subscription ran out right before school started I searched for a free typing program to use instead. Typing.com doesn't have all the pretty graphics or typing games that are incorporated into KWT, but as a former keyboarding teacher I can tell you that it's a solid typing practice program. The lessons are a bit long - at least for how much time I want to devote to keyboarding during our homeschool day - so sometimes we break them up over two days. Like Teach Your Monster to Read, this program is also completely free. You can register as many students as you wish under your account and have them start at whatever level you choose. The kids haven't had any trouble transitioning to the new program and I am thrilled to have saved our family a few more dollars!
What are your favorite FREE learning sites? I would love to have some more resources in my school bag! 😊
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