The Night Zookeeper
Designed for children age 6-12, the Night Zookeeper is a series of storybooks set in the magical midnight Zoo which inspire children to read, write and use their creative thinking skills. With fun, engaging games that increase vocabulary and improve spelling, there are puzzles and challenges that develop grammar and structure skills, too. Explore more.
The Reading Realm
The Reading Realm is great for joining the dots between reading, writing, comprehension and spelling. Taking excerpts from loved children’s books, users can then take on a variety of exercises from different ‘realms’, such as ‘Discussion’ where they share their comprehension of the text, or ‘Muddled’ where they unscramble words to make a sentence. There are plenty of quizzes and puzzles to keep it fun – great for sharpening their primary literary skills. Explore more.
Reading Eggs
Designed to grow with your child from the age of two right up to 13, Reading Eggs is used by over 20 million children worldwide. It’s no stretch to see why; after all, the multi-award-winning learning platform was designed by experienced primary teachers who know a thing or two about fostering a love of reading. Featuring alphabet quizzes, spelling games, phonics activities, word puzzles, nursery rhymes, and over 3,500 e-books for them to dip in and out of, there are lots of rewards and encouragement to keep them engaged and learning. Explore more.
Monster Phonics
Monster Phonics uses a magic world of friendly furry friends to teach children how to form all the sounds (graphemes) in their first 100 words in the KS1 curriculum. Selected by BETT futures as one of the top 20 most inspiring new ed-tech ideas in the UK, it is a multi-sensory interface that makes their first foray into reading fun. Explore more.
Epic!
Described as the ‘Netflix of Children’s Books’ with over 35,000 to choose from, there’s plenty to keep even the most avid reader’s occupied. Create individual profiles so they can collate their own library tailored to their interests and set 20-minute reading challenges to encourage them to dive in daily. Explore more.
Twinkl Rhino Reader
The Twinkl platform has been a home-learning trusted resource for years and its Rhino Readers app is no different. Containing over 100 Rhino Readers texts for phonics levels two-to-six, there is a wide range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry available to keep them inspired. Explore more.
Teach Your Monster To Read
This BAFTA-nominated children’s app allows them to create their own monster avatar to take with them on a series of adventure games covering phonic stages from age three-to-six years. There are short e-books to read together too to encourage the start of their daily reading journey. Explore more.
Reading Raven
Aimed at children ages three to seven, Reading Raven helps them develop their listening, reading and hand-eye co-ordination skills as they read, recognise and trace letters to start to build their first words and sentences. Explore more.
Meet the Alphablocks
The catchy and loveable personified Alphablocks help teach phonics and letter sounds through song and play. Using best-practice phonics as taught in UK schools, it’s a great first foray into helping them visually and audibly recognise their letters for the foundations of their reading future. Explore more.
By Lydia Mansi
June 2023
