Free Software tools to teach early reading skills in a balanced approach of skills and literature.

Free Software

Alphabet, Phonics and Language
Use our free educational software in a
balanced approach to teach your child to read
     Your child should have alphabet and phonics skills, as well as the excitement of language, in learning to read. Use your computer to teach skills, so that you can concentrate on introducing your child to the richness of our literature (And you thought you were just reading to them!). Recent research favors an approach that is based on literature, but also teaches the skills necessary for the child to use to keep from floundering in the early stages of deciphering print.
     A computer is good at making skill learning fun and fast. A computer isn’t very good at reading a story to your child curled up on the sofa at bedtime. Use a computer for what it does best, teaching enough skills to get the child reading, but concentrate on reading, especially reading for meaning, because that is why we read.

Learn Letters
     FREE! Learn Letters teaches children to name and make the 26 letters of the alphabet. Using the shapes the letters have in common, the child is guided as he combines shapes to make the lower case letters of the alphabet.

For older children who don't like to read