Good morning, welcome to our series were we bring new Homeschool Resources: Interactive Language Arts Games and Literacy Resources to you. Would you check out the websites below and let me know if you’ve used these with your students or not.
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Roy the Zebra – Grades K-2, with parental supervision
This site provides an archive of free interactive language arts games and literacy resources to help emerging readers learn to read.
When you get to the site, you’ll see the featured activities that include “Guided Reading Story” starring your host, Roy the Zebra, as well as “Reading Games” that help teach concepts such as:
- Alphabetical Order
- Capital Letters
- High Frequency Words (Days and Months)
- Double Consonants
- Long Vowel Phonemes
- Singular or Plural
- Tricky Words
- Words that Rhyme
- Words Within Words
- And more!
The simplicity of this site makes learning the basic skills for reading lots of fun for kids. Non-readers will need assistance.
In addition to playing the games, you can help your children read the interactive storybook about Roy the Zebra and his escape from a zoo. The stories come with free, printable discussion worksheets.
If you read the story, you’ll discover that Roy the Zebra loves to sing. Use the menu to click on “Songs” to hear Roy singing his faves.
In addition to all of the freebies here, you can join Club Roy for more activities for a fee. However, you are under no obligation to buy anything to easily access the free stories and games.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
