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Pre-Kindergarten	Kindergarten	First Grade
Second Grade	Third Grade & Up

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Pre-Kindergarten (Pre-K)

• Phonemes & Alphabets

  Phonemic Awareness
  Rhyming Quest: A matching game where students find words that rhyme to build foundational auditory tracking.
  Syllable Safari: Listen to a word and tap out its musical beats or syllables.
  Sound Odd One Out: Identify which spoken word starts with a completely different mouth sound.
  

  Alphabet Knowledge
  Alphabet Uppercase Game: A visual introduction to bold capital letters, perfect for preschoolers identifying uppercase letters.
  First Letter Match: Listen & choose what letter the word starts with.
  

• Beginning, Middle & Ending Sounds

  Identify Beginning and Ending Sounds
  

  B Sound /b/	F Sound /f/	L Sound /l/
  M Sound /m/	N Sound /n/	P Sound /p/
  R Sound /r/	S Sound /s/

  Identify Beginning and Middle Sounds
  

  Short A Sound /æ/	Short O Sound /ɑ/	Short U Sound /ʌ/

• Vocabulary & Sight Words

  Vocabulary & Concepts
  Opposites Attract: Listen & choose the words that mean the opposite.
  The Sorting Station: Group items together by categories like animals, clothing, or food.
  Spatial Position Words (Prepositions): Learning functional language to follow directions, such as on, under, inside, next to, above, and behind.
  

  High-Frequency Words
  Dolch Sight Words for Pre-K: 40 Flashcards with audio.
  Dolch Sight Words for Pre-K: Matching words with audio.
  

Kindergarten

• Alphabet Recognition

  Alphabet Lowercase Game: A targeted recognition tool that focuses on the letter shapes.
  Alphabet Game: A comprehensive, all-in-one letter hunt where early learners practice identifying both capital and lowercase letters.
  Alphabet Matching Game: Connect between uppercase and lowercase alphabets.
  

  Find the Alphabet Game: Listen and find the alphabet (uppercase or lowercase).
  b vs d Game: Help kids distinguish between tricky mirror letters like b and d.
  p vs q Game: Help kids distinguish between tricky mirror letters like p and q.
  

• Beginning, Middle & Ending Sounds

  Identify Beginning Sounds
  

  Hard C Sound /k/	Hard G Sound /g/	H Sound /h/
  J Sound /j/	W Sound /w/	Y Sound /y/

  Identify Beginning and Ending Sounds
  

  B Sound /b/	D Sound /d/	F Sound /f/
  K Sound /k/	L Sound /l/	M Sound /m/
  N Sound /n/	P Sound /p/	R Sound /r/
  S Sound /s/	T Sound /t/	V Sound /v/

  Identify Beginning and Middle Sounds
  

  Short A Sound /æ/	Short E Sound /ɛ/	Short I Sound /i/
  Short O Sound /ɑ/	Short U Sound /ʌ/

• Phonics & Decoding

  QU Sounds: Learn to identify the /kw/ sound.
  CVC Words: (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant): Drag and drop individual letters to spell basic three-letter words like tap, fin, and hop.
  Consonant Digraph Game (ch, sh, th, wh, ph): An interactive audio game that teaches kids how two consonants team up to make one unique sound.
  Word Families: Group words together by their endings (e.g., sorting words into the -at family, -ig family, or -ug family).
  

• High-Frequency Words

  Sight Word Speedway: A high-feedback recognition game for words that don’t always follow standard phonics rules (e.g., the, said, was, where).
  Dolch Sight Words for Kindergarten: 52 Flashcards with audio.
  Dolch Sight Words for Kindergarten: Matching words with audio.
  Fry’s 1st 100 Sight Words (1-100)
  

1st Grade

• Digraphs & Consonant Blends

  Consonant Digraph Game (ch, sh, th, wh, ph): An interactive audio game that teaches kids how two consonants team up to make one unique sound.
  L-Blends: Learn the L-blends bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, and sl.
  R-Blends: Learn the R-blends br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, and tr.
  S-Blends: Learn the S-blends sc, sm, sn, sp, st, and sw.
  

  Initial Blends Blast: Listen to a word like frog or star and choose the correct starting blend.
  Final Blends Finish Line: Practice identifying tricky ending blends in words like band, lamp, or nest.
  

• Vowel Sound Exploration

  Short A vs. Long A – Practice distinguishing between the short sound in cap and the long sound in cape.
  Short E vs. Long E – Practice distinguishing between the short sound in set and the long sound in see.
  Short I vs. Long I – Practice distinguishing between the short sound in bit and the long sound in bite.
  

  Short O vs. Long O – Practice distinguishing between the short sound in rob and the long sound in robe.
  Short U vs. Long U – Practice distinguishing between the short sound in cup and the long sound in cube or flute.
  Short or Long Vowel – Listen and decide if its main vowel sound is Short or Long (A, E, I, O, and U).
  

  Magic Silent E: Listen carefully and decide if the word you hear has a quiet “e” at the end or not.
  Vowel Team: Practice the classic rule “when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.”
  Syllable Splitting: Learning that every syllable must have a vowel sound, and practicing breaking two-syllable words apart.
  

• High-Frequency Words

  Dolch Sight Words for 1st Grade: 41 Flashcards with audio.
  Dolch Sight Words for 1st Grade: Matching words with audio.
  Fry’s 2nd 100 Sight Words (101-200)
  Fry’s 3rd 100 Sight Words (201-300)
  

• Grammar

  What is a Noun?: Identifying people, places, things, and animals.
  Common & Proper Nouns: Identifying common vs. proper nouns and mastering capitalization rules.
  Regular Plural Nouns: identifying singular vs. plural nouns with -s and -es rules.
  Possessive Nouns: Master singular possessive nouns using apostrophe + s (’s)
  

  Action Verbs: Spot physical and mental action verbs in sentences.
  Past Tense: Regular and irregular verbs.
  Verbs “To Be”: Master subject-verb agreement.
  

  Adjective: Identify describing words, colors, sizes, and numbers in sentences.
  Subject Pronoun Game: Master subject pronouns.
  Personal Pronoun Game: Master subject and object pronouns.
  Possessive Pronouns: Replace noun phrases with words like mine, his, hers, ours, and theirs.
  

  Articles: Choose between ‘a’ and ‘an’.
  

• Sentence Mechanics

  Capitalization: Capitalization Rules.
  

  Conjunction (And, Or, But): Connecting Words.
  Combine Sentences (And, Or, So): Combine simple sentences.
  

  Sentence vs Fragment: Distinguish between Sentence and Fragment.
  Sentence Types: Distinguish statements, questions, exclamations, and commands.
  

  Punctuations: Master periods, question marks, and exclamation points.
  Commas: Practice using commas in lists and calendar dates.
  

2nd Grade

• Vowel Teams & Diphthongs

  R-controlled Vowels (“Bossy R”): Listen to a word and decide which r-controlled vowel team (ar, er, ir, or, ur) it uses.
  

  Vowel Team: Practice the classic rule “when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.”
  Vowel Team: With tricky matching pairs like ai/ay (rain, play) and oa/ow (boat, blow).
  

  Diphthongs: An audio game focusing on “sliding” vowel sounds that kids often struggle to spell, specifically oi/oy (coin, toy) and ou/ow (house, cow).
  

• Soft Consonants & Early Silents

  Hard and Soft C: Practice distinguishing between the hard sound in cat and the soft sound in cent.
  Hard and Soft G: Practice distinguishing between the hard sound in goat and the soft sound in gem.
  

  The Sounds of NG: Learn Nasal, Hard G, and Soft J Rules.
  Silent C: Master the Soft SC Consonant Blend.
  Find the Silent Letter: Identify silent consonants like kn, wr, gn, mb, and lk.
  

• High-Frequency Words

  Dolch Sight Words for 2nd Grade: 46 Flashcards with audio.
  Dolch Sight Words for 2nd Grade: Matching words with audio.
  Dolch Noun Sight Words: 95 Flashcards with audio.
  Dolch Noun Sight Words: Matching words with audio.
  

  Fry’s 4th 100 Sight Words (301-400)
  Fry’s 5th 100 Sight Words (401-500)
  Fry’s 6th 100 Sight Words (501-600)
  

• Word Structures

  Prefixes: Un-, Re-, Dis-, Pre-: Changing word meaning.
  Suffixes: Building descriptive words and comparative forms.
  

  Compound Words: Combining two distinct base words into a new single word.
  Contraction Detector: Practice using an apostrophe to slice two words into one.
  

• Noun Mechanics & Structures

  Singular-Plural Game: Test your skills on regular and irregular words. Change between singular and plural nouns.
  Plural Noun Game: A structural sorting game where students learn how to turn singular words into plurals.
  Irregular Plural Nouns: With spelling rule explanations.
  Plural vs Possessive Nouns: Differentiate between plural nouns and singular possessive nouns.
  

• Parts of Speech & Sentence Mechanics

  Regular & Irregular Verbs: Past-tense Verbs.
  Subject-Verb Agreement: Singular and plural subjects.
  Subject vs Object Pronouns: Distinguish between subject & object pronouns.
  Reflexive Pronouns: Singular & Plural Reflexive Pronouns.
  

  Adjectives: Practice finding attributive, predicate, and question-based describing words.
  Adverbs: Spot verbs and adverbs in sentences.
  Conjunction (And, Or, But, So): Connect two independent clauses.
  Cause & Effect: Arrange the events.
  

• Spelling, Sound & Vocabulary Discrimination

  ABC Order Challenge: Sort words in alphabetical order up to 3rd letters.
  Commonly Confused Words: An audio game where kids listen to commonly confused words and click the correct spelling.
  Homophones: Practice sound-alike words.
  

3rd Grade & Up

• Phonics & Silent Letter Rules

  The Sounds of GH: Learn Silent, F, and Hard G Rules.
  

  Silent B: Master -MB, -BT, and Rare Spelling Rules.
  Silent D: Master -DG- Rules and Consonant Clusters.
  Find the Silent Letter: Identify silent consonants like kn, wr, gn, mb, and lk.
  

  Plural for Words ending with O: Plural spelling for words ending in O.
  Homographs: Practice words with same spelling but different meanings.
  ABC Order Challenge: Sort words in alphabetical order up to 3rd letters.
  

• Advanced Sight Words

  Dolch Sight Words for 3rd Grade: 41 Flashcards with audio.
  Dolch Sight Words for 3rd Grade: Matching words with audio.
  

  Fry’s 7th 100 Sight Words (601-700)
  Fry’s 8th 100 Sight Words (701-800)
  Fry’s 9th 100 Sight Words (801-900)
  Fry’s 10th 100 Sight Words (901-1000)
  

• Structural Grammar & Spelling

  Plural Noun Game: A structural sorting game where students learn how to turn singular words into plurals.
  Possessive Form of Plural Nouns: Regular and irregular plural possessives.
  Concrete vs Abstract Nouns
  Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
  

  Adjective: Categorize adjectives.
  

• Word Structures

  Prefixes: Mis-, Non-, Over-, Under-, sub-: Changing word meaning.
  Suffixes: -able, -ible, -tion, -sion, -ment, -less, -ness: Changing word meaning.
  Suffix Spelling Rules: Hard & Soft C/G Suffix Rules.
  

  Comparative & Superlative: Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs. Possessives vs Contractions

• Sentence Structures

  FANBOYS: Coordinating Conjunctions.
  Complex Sentence using AAAWWUBBIS: Subordinate Conjunctions.
  

  Punctuating Dialogue
  

• Figurative Language

  Idioms:Recognizing non-literal expressions.
  Simile
  

Printable Worksheets & Anchor Charts
Perfect for desk work, handwriting practice, and tactile reinforcement.
English For Kids Worksheets: Transform short vowel words into long vowel words with this printable Magic E worksheet.

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Why Educators & Parents Love Our Resources
Integrated Text-to-Speech: Our online games feature built-in, child-friendly audio cues so young learners can navigate and learn independently, even if they are still decoding text.
Zero Fluff, High Focus: We don’t use distracting background noise or overwhelming graphics. Every game features clean visuals designed to keep kids focused on the letters and sounds.
Perfect Scorekeeping: Every digital game tracks progress using a simple, motivating Score: [Correct] / [Total Attempts] display so you can easily view a student’s accuracy at a glance.
Randomized Replays: Our word pools are designed to cycle completely and randomly through our high-utility lists once before repeating, ensuring fresh practice every time they play.

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