Free Online Reading Games and Worksheets
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Our compilation of Free Online Phonics Games available on the Internet. Play word games that teach, build or strengthen your word skills and concepts while having fun. We categorize and review the games listed here to help you find the games you are looking for.
We have added more free online Reading Games: phonics games, sounds of the alphabets, vowel games, short vowels, long vowels, CVC words, R-controlled vowels, vowel teams, consonant games, consonant blends, consonant digraphs, making sentences and reading games
Online Phonics & Reading Games
Sounds or Phonemes of the Alphabets
Phonics Pop
Match the sound with the letter by popping the bubble.
Phonics Game (b to n)
Match the consonant sounds.
Phonics Game (m to z)
Match the consonant sounds.
Phonics Game (US)
Match the vowel sounds.
Phonics Game (UK)
Match the vowel sounds.
Teach your Monster to Read
Covers all phonics sounds.
Poop Deck Pirates
Read the words on the golden coins. Decide if they are real words or if they are not.
Dinosaur’s High Frequency Words
Choose which group of words you wish to practice. Listen to the word, choose the correct egg and then press ’next’. If you are right the sabre-toothed will put a scratch on the tree. When you have completed ten goes you will be able to print out a certificate including all of the words you read and those that you need to work on.
Beginning Sounds or Beginning Letters
Phonics Name Game
Listen to the name and click on the letter that the name starts with.
Alphabet Match
Alphabet Match is a fun game where children must match letter sounds to beginning word sounds. For example “A” = “Ant” Children flip cards to make a match between the letters and the words or vice-versa. All letters and words are sounded out for children as they play the game. Lots of fun.
Beginning Sounds
Build letter sound awareness with beginning sounds! Game includes an exploratory sound board and questions to identify beginning sounds. Early developing consonants: b, d, t, d, k, h, m, n and h are included in this set.
Alphabet Bubble
Pop bubbles to match letters with words that start with the correct letter sound.
Alphabet Match
Match letter sounds to beginning word sounds.
Alphabats Alliteration
Click on the bats’ bellies to hear the words, then match the words with the same beginning sounds. Match 6 words correctly, then help the bats collect fireflies!
Vowels & Consonants
Odd Man
Learn vowels and consonants. Read the alphabet on each man’s shirt and figure out if it is a consonant or vowel. Click the shirt that has doesn’t belong to the group.
Beginning Consonants
Choose the picture of the word that begins with selected consonant.
Short Vowels
Make a Match - Short Vowel Words
Match the short vowel words with the correct picture.
Short o
Move the letters around to form the correct word.
Short i
Pop the balloons to drop the picture onto its matching word.
Short Vowel Game
Phonics game to practice the short vowels /a/ /e/ /i/ /o/ /u/
Short A Words
Short ‘A’ Word Families Game : at, an, am, ab, ag, ap, ad
Croc Board Game
Short ‘A’ Word Families Game : ack, alf, and, ank, ant, ash, ast
Zombie Board Game
Short ‘E’ Word Families Game : ed, eg, em, en, ep, et
Kango Boomerang
Short ‘E’ Word Families Game : ell, end, ent, est
Whack-a-mole
Hit the moles with the short vowel sounds.
Long Vowels
Magic E
Fill in the missing long vowel.
Long O
Move the letters around to form the correct long o word.
Whack-a-mole
Whack the mole with the magic e.
Long Vowels
Hit the moles with long vowels.
Long Vowels 2
Hit the moles with long vowels.
Short & Long Vowels
Vowel Popper
Short & Long Vowel Sounds. Pop the balloon that contains the word with the correct vowel sound.
Short or Long Vowel
Decide whether a word has a short or long vowel.
Balloon Pop
Pop the balloon to drop the correct vowel onto the word.
Short or Long Vowel Sort
Sort the given words into short vowel sound or long vowel sound.
Short or Long Vowel Sort 2
Sort the given words into short vowel sound or long vowel sound.
Short or Long Vowel Sort 3
Sort the given words into short vowel sound or long vowel sound.
Coconut Vowels
Match the missing vowels to the correct word.
Turtle Dash
Select the correct double vowel to form a word.
Missing Vowel
Select the missing vowel to form the word that matches the picture.
CVC Words
Balloon Phonics
There are three different games to choose from: Initial sounds, Middle and End sounds. Working through the levels helps children to progress through the different stages of blending sounds together.
Roy the Zebra
Spell CVC words and help Wellington clean up the ocean.
Word Sort
Sort the CVC words into real or silly words.
Alphabet Soup
Help Cookie monster form the correct CVC words.
CVC Blitz
Rearrange the letters to form the correct CVC word.
Viking Full Circle
Listen to the word that you need to spell. Arrange the sounds on the boat to spell the word. Press on the big wave to see if you’re right.
Buried Treasure
Drag the coins with real words on them to the treasure chest. Drag the coins with fake words to the dustbin.
R-controlled Words
R-controlled: One Syllable
Whack the moles that has the /er/
R-controlled: Group Sort
Sort into ar, or, or, ir, and ur.
R-control Races
The racecar has an r-controlled word with the vowel missing. Select the key with the correct vowel to start the car.
R-controlled Vowels
Practice r-controlled vowel discrimination. ar, or, ir, er, ur. Listen to the word and select.
[R-controlled: 1 vs 2 syllable](https://wordwall.net/resource/7040838/1-vs-2-syllable-r-controlled
Sort the r-controlled words into one syllable or two syllables.
Whack-a-mole
R-controlled vowels (er,ir,ur) make the /er sound. Hit the moles that have words that make the /er/ sound.
Vowel Teams
Vowel Team
Move the letters to form the correct word.
Vowel Team 2
Move the letters to unscramble the word.
Vowel Team Practice
Select the word with the correct spelling.
Diphthongs
Type or click the missing (ai ee ie oa oi) sounding letters
Consonants Blends & Digraphs
Consonant Blend
Fuzz Bugs Farm Consonant Blends is a great activity for young children to work with consonant digraphs and the different words they create. Help your Fuzz Bugs Farm Animal make its way across the game board by answering different questions and creating words.
Phonics Game (consonant blends)
Match the consonant blends.
Consonant Blends Word Search
Search for words beginning with consonant blends.
Consonant Blends
Learn consonant blending by selecting the correct letters.
Beginning Consonant Digraphs
Identify the digraph that begins each word (ch, sh, th, wh).
Consonant Blend Sort
Sort the words into beginning and ending consonant blends.
Phonics Pop
Choose a set of sounds to practice, or select from the digraph (2/3-letter sounds) checkboxes. Then listen to the target sound and pop as many as you can.
Making Sentences
Pictures & Sentences
Match the picture to its sentence. Grade 1
Match the Phrases Grade 2
Create a meaningful sentence by matching the pairs correctly. Grade 2
Match the Phrases Grade 3
Create a meaningful sentence by matching the pairs correctly. Grade 3
Sentence Unscramble Grade 1
Put the words in the correct order to form a sentence.
Sentence Unscramble Grade 2
Put the words in the correct order to form a sentence.
Sentence Unscramble Grade 3
Put the words in the correct order to form a sentence.
Sentence Unscramble Grade 4
Put the words in the correct order to form a sentence.
Sentence Unscramble Grade 5
Put the words in the correct order to form a sentence.
Simple Sentence
Rearrange the words to form a correct sentence. There are three levels.
Punctuation
Punctuation Mystery K
Select the correct punctuation marks.
Punctuation Mystery Grade 1
Select the correct punctuation marks.
Punctuation Mystery Grade 2
Select the correct punctuation marks.
Punctuation Mystery Grade 3
Select the correct punctuation marks.
Punctuation Mystery Grade 4
Select the correct punctuation marks.
Punctuation Speed Check
Choose the correct punctuation marks to win the race.
Starfall Reading Games
ABCs
Let’s get ready to read
Learn To Read
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It’s Fun to Read
Fun interactive stories to help you to read
I’m Reading
Fun stories that you can read yourself or it can be read to you.
Try out our new and fun Fraction Concoction Game.
Add and subtract fractions to make exciting fraction concoctions following a recipe. There are four levels of difficulty: Easy, medium, hard and insane. Practice the basics of fraction addition and subtraction or challenge yourself with the insane level.
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