As we are experimenting with homeschooling 2 of our kids this semester, I’ve been hunting for good interactive reading resources. Our first grader delighted in using Smarty Ants http://www.smartyants.com last year, which was one of the coolest and most beneficial reading programs I’ve ever seen. But she finished it a few months back, and didn’t take very well to the Rosetta Stone Lexia app. And my son’s reading level is quite high for 3rd grade, although his comprehension definitely outpaces his grammar and spelling. I wanted something with short passages that would be engaging and offer some quizzing built in, and I was delighted to find Read Theory - http://www.readtheory.com.
This free webapp offers over 1000 passages created by some phD types in North Carolina with tons of educational experience, and the app is beautiful and very HTML5. While it can’t do everything, for a quick daily practice it seems like it will work great for us.
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