These learning to read games are a collection on online games for kindergarten kids to teach the following foundational reading skills – that go beyond learning the abc’s to using and manipulating them. *Includes skills that go beyond kindergarten standards.

• Letter Recognition / Letter Naming
• Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Matching
• Alphabetical Order (ABC Order)
• Rhyming
• Beginning Sounds / Ending Sounds
• Onset and Rime
• Blending/Sounding Out CVC Words
• Short Vowel Sounds
• Manipulating Sounds in All Positions of CVC Word
• Recognizing General Spelling Patterns (silent e, common digraphs, r-controlled vowels)*
• Sounding Out Four Letter Words*
• Reading Words Using Word Families (chunks)*

Games linked from this page practice Common Core Standards:

• K.RF.1.d – Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
• K.RF.2.a – Recognize and produce rhyming words.
• K.RF.2.d – Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)
• K.RF.2.c – Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.
• K.RF.2.e – Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
• K.RF.3.a – Demonstrate basic knowledge of letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or most frequent sound for each consonant.
• K.RF.3.b – Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
• K.RF.3.c – Read common high-frequency words by sight
• K.RF.3.d – Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.
• K.L.2.d – Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
• RF.1.2.b – Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.
• RF.1.3.a – Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
• RF.1.3.c – Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
• RF.1.3.g – Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.