Reading and writing
Phonics, stories, reading practice and writing help, from first letters to longer texts. Many of these also work well read together.
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Khan Academy Kids
A playful, guided app for early reading, maths and social skills, with stories and drawing as well as practice.
Starfall
A long-running phonics and early-years site with games, songs and books. The public pages cover a core letter-sound path; a paid membership opens the rest.
Duolingo ABC
Short, wordless-to-words lessons that teach letter sounds and early reading on a phone or tablet.
Teach Your Monster
A phonics game in which children teach a monster to read. The organisation also makes number and writing games under the same name.
Storyline Online
Actors read children's picture books aloud, with the book on screen. Run by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.
Free to watch
CommonLit
A large library of stories, poems and non-fiction for lessons, with questions and teacher guides attached to each text.
ReadWorks
A nonprofit library of reading passages and question sets, written for classroom use and organised by grade and topic.
ReadTheory
Adaptive reading-comprehension practice that adjusts the next passage to how a student just did.
Free reading practice
Newsela
News and non-fiction rewritten at several reading levels, used widely in schools. Most of the library sits behind a school or family plan.
Epic
A children's digital library of books, audiobooks and short videos. School hours are often free for teachers; families pay for unlimited home use.
Oxford Owl
Free e-books and expert advice from Oxford University Press, including the familiar Biff, Chip and Kipper readers.
Book Dash
Openly licensed picture books, written and illustrated in a day, that anyone can read or print.
Free to read and print
African Storybook
Open picture books in many African languages, with English and other translations, meant to be read on screen or printed.
Free to read
Unite for Literacy
Short picture books narrated in English and in many other languages, pictured with real photographs.
Free to read
Highlights Kids
Puzzles, hidden pictures, stories and simple science from the Highlights magazine, on a website children can browse.
Time for Kids
News written for children, with editions at different reading levels. Some stories are open; the full magazine is a school subscription.
Storynory
A long-running collection of original and traditional stories to listen to, with the text on the page.
Free to listen
Open Library
An Internet Archive project that lends digitised books, including a large children's shelf, with a free account.
Free to borrow
Project Gutenberg
Public-domain books to download or read in the browser, including a long list of children's classics.
Free to download
Poetry Foundation Education
Poems, lesson ideas and recordings chosen for classrooms and for reading with children.
Free to read
Global Storybooks
Open storybooks in dozens of languages, built from the African Storybook collection and related projects.
Free to read
Libby
The public-library app for borrowing e-books and audiobooks with a library card, including plenty of children's titles.
Free with a library card
ABCmouse
A large, paid early-learning path (from Age of Learning) covering letters, numbers and more, aimed at children up to about six. A trial is usually offered; the full library is a subscription.
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