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LearnEnglish Kids
Free songs, stories, games, videos, grammar activities, and printable ideas from the British Council for children learning English.
BBC Bitesize
Free curriculum-linked lessons, games, quizzes, and study support for children and teenagers.
Book Dash
Free African storybooks that children and families can read, download, print, translate, and share with credit.
Duolingo ABC
A playful early-literacy app with phonics, handwriting, sight words, vocabulary, and interactive stories.
Phonicademy
A structured phonics learning site with 44 sounds, browser games, decodable printables, parent guides, and companion mobile apps.
Ready Kids
FEMA’s preparedness learning hub for children, teens, families, and educators, with games, plans, activities, and multilingual resources.
Read Along by Google
A free reading companion that listens as children read aloud and provides pronunciation support, stories, badges, and practice in multiple languages.
The Fable Cottage
Bilingual stories with text, audio, and video that help children and families enjoy language learning through folktales.
BBC 500 Words
A children's story-writing project for ages 5-11 with prompts, classroom resources, story inspiration, and annual submissions.
Reading Rockets Activities
Reading and writing activities for children, parents, teachers, and preschool educators from Reading Rockets.
RIF Literacy Central
Reading activities, book resources, and literacy support from Reading Is Fundamental.
World Book Day
Official World Book Day videos, author content, reading inspiration, and book-related activities for children and families.
Oxford Owl Free eBook Library
Oxford Owl’s free eBook library helps children practise reading with phonics, fiction, and non-fiction books organized by age, series, and Oxford reading level.
National Center on Improving Literacy
Free evidence-based literacy resources for families and educators covering phonics, dyslexia, fluency, comprehension, and learning to read and write.
New York Public Library Learning
Storytimes, STEAM kits, reading recommendations, family activities, and free learning programs from NYPL.
Worldreader
A global literacy nonprofit with BookSmart, a free digital reading app for children ages 0–8 and the families who read with them.
Level One Reading
A free phonics program for ages 4–6 with systematic synthetic phonics, decodable books, sounds, blending, and tricky words.
Phonics Lessons
A free browser phonics path for ages 3–6 with letter sounds, decodable stories, sound missions, games, and printables.
Poetry Foundation Children's Poems
A curated collection of children's poems, classics, nursery rhymes, and poetry learning material from the Poetry Foundation.
Zooniverse Education
Classroom-friendly citizen science projects with research participation, educator resources, and a dedicated schools route for ages 9-12.
Ask A Biologist
Arizona State University biology stories, games, activities, videos, podcasts, and selected Spanish learning resources for curious children.
eRead Kids Digital Library
Georgia Public Library Service’s digital library gives children access to more than 45,000 English and Spanish ebooks and audiobooks, from picture books and basic readers to graphic novels and chapter books.
BookTrust
Children’s reading charity with book recommendations, family reading tips, reading activities, and support for schools and families.
LearnToReadStories.com
A free, no-login reading path for early readers with phonics, sight words, printable stories, coloring pages, and parent guidance.
Oxford Owl
Expert reading guidance, educational activities, and a free eBook library for children learning at home.
Teach Your Monster to Read
A phonics adventure game that takes children from first letter sounds through early sentences and little books.
Unite for Literacy
A free digital library of picture books with narration options in many languages.
Storynory
Free audio stories, fairy tales, myths, poems, and original adventures for children and families.
StoryWeaver
An open digital library of children’s stories in many Indian and global languages.
Epic Kids
A digital library for kids with books, audiobooks, videos, and reading discovery for children through age 12.
Reading Is Fundamental
Reading motivation, literacy resources, and family and educator support from the United States literacy nonprofit RIF.
The Children’s Poetry Archive
A free audio poetry library for children, with poems read aloud, age groups, themes, glossary terms, and teaching resources.
ReadWriteThink Interactives
Free literacy interactives for children and classrooms, including story maps, plot diagrams, word sorts, and reading tools.
Microsoft Reading Coach
A free reading practice tool with AI-powered stories, personalized word practice, educator guidance, and multilingual reading support.
Bookshare
An accessible digital library with children's books, teen titles, reading tools, and support for learners with reading barriers.
Royal Shakespeare Company Learning
Creative Shakespeare and theatre learning for young people, schools, teachers, and families, with curriculum resources and youth programmes.
Islam Museum Learn
A free, open museum learning experience with age-based paths, stories, quests, teacher materials, and family activities for ages 4-18.
Prodigy Math
A curriculum-aligned math learning game for grades 1–8 with adaptive practice, a free core experience, and optional membership features.
StoryWeaver Audio Adventures
StoryWeaver offers a curated library of imaginative audio stories for young listeners, with age labels, free monthly listening, family profiles, and optional premium listening and story creation.
Karim and Jana Words Journey
This official Qatar Reading Foundation app supports Arabic literacy for young children through a playful words journey with no ads or subscriptions.
Literacy LIFTER
The Iowa Reading Research Center’s free LIFTER tool supports handwriting and early reading with evidence-based letter instruction, videos, assessments, and English/Spanish worksheets.
Kkomi
Kkomi is a browser-based AI read-aloud companion from LEADKIDS: children read picture books aloud, receive reading support and questions, and guardians can follow reading and thinking reports.
AI Safety and Ethics Guide
A grade-banded AI safety and ethics module covering responsible use, deepfakes, misinformation, privacy, and digital judgment with interactive checks and printable guidance.
AI Literacy
A free five-unit AI literacy module for K–12 families and students covering how AI works, deepfakes, privacy, ethics, and family rules with age-scaled explanations and knowledge checks.
NABU
NABU is a multilingual children’s literacy publisher creating culturally responsive mother-tongue books and making them available to children, families, and teachers.
Pitara Kids
Pitara Kids offers interactive bilingual stories with read-along narration and quizzes, plus screen-free audio stories for children and families.
Colorín Colorado
Bilingual family and educator resources that support English-language learners and literacy development.
Scholastic Kids
A kid-facing library of book discoveries, series pages, and new releases from Scholastic.
NC Literacy at Home
North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction Literacy at Home hub provides grade-level family activities from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade covering phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and oral language.
DoodleBeez
DoodleBeez is an ad-free learning app for ages 3–10 combining read-aloud picture books, step-by-step drawing, games, kindness and money stories, printables, and spoken support in nine languages.
Their First Typing
A free, ad-free browser typing course for beginners learning useful words and phrases across nine language courses.
Word Quest
A free word adventure that builds vocabulary, spelling, and reading comprehension through a short browser game with no account.
Unuhi
Unuhi is a bilingual children’s book app with read-along audio, stories in two chosen languages, flashcards, and a broad multilingual catalog for young readers.
Global Digital Library
Free early-grade books and reading materials in multiple languages for children and families.
Arcademics
Free browser games that help K-8 learners practice math, language arts, spelling, typing, and geography through playful competition.
FreeRice
Educational trivia and vocabulary games that let players learn while supporting the UN World Food Programme.
Duck English Phonics Games
Free browser games for practicing letter sounds, listening, blending, and early English phonics with a class or family.
USU Children’s Digital Library
A free public library of open-access books, audiobooks, activities, primary sources, and multilingual discovery paths for young readers and families.
Loving2Read
A free digital library with more than 1,000 children’s books, reading levels, printables, streaks, achievements, and classroom-friendly browsing.
Poetry4Kids
A free poetry library with funny poems, writing lessons, poetry activities, and performance ideas created for children and teachers.
Project Sahitya
Project Sahitya provides a free literacy toolkit with lessons, songs, flashcards, and worksheets designed for early reading support.
Nebraska Family and Early Literacy Resources
Nebraska Department of Education’s family literacy hub collects read-aloud guidance, food-themed literacy toolkits, bilingual family resources, videos, and downloadable reading plans.
Luminova Kids
Luminova Kids is a volunteer project offering open English lessons, interactive exercises, audio, reading, listening, games, and worksheets for Ukrainian children in grades 1–7.
KindLearn Kids Zone
KindLearn is a free browser language-learning app with a Kids Zone for ages 4–12, offering 30-day beginner courses, listening practice, quizzes, and read-aloud word cards across 13 languages.
ZogMath
Free bilingual Chinese-English browser maths games for grades 1–8, covering arithmetic, fractions, geometry, and logic.
Learning App for Kids
Free bilingual English-Urdu learning for playgroup through Grade 5 with maths, language, science, and world topics.
ABC4Kids
A free multilingual browser app for ages 3–6 with playful alphabet, number, phonics, counting, and letter-tracing games.
Spell Trail
A free spelling practice game with age-banded word trails from Grades 1–8, audio repetition, no timer, and optional parent word lists.
Word Wonders: Free Early Literacy Curriculum
Zero to Three’s Word Wonders is a free early-literacy curriculum with playful language, reading, and caregiver activities for young children.
Wugi Wogo
Wugi Wogo is a multilingual story platform for children with narrated stories, listening activities, and language exposure across several languages.
PlatkyKutti
PlatkyKutti is a multilingual learning world for children with stories, language and grammar, math, maps, brain games, art, coding, and life-skills activities.
Learning With Momo
Learning With Momo is a multilingual web app with picture decks, pronunciation audio, games, and age modes from Little Explorer through Big Kid.
Tivumo
Tivumo is a visual mathematics app where children move representations to understand fractions, algebra, geometry, data, probability, and calculus.
English for Fun
English for Fun is a set of browser games for children learning first English through picture vocabulary, early sentences, letters, numbers, shapes, colours, and early maths.
Pagine
A free digital library with picture books, early readers, chapter books, audiobooks, and public-domain classics in more than 150 languages.
Small Universe
Small Universe is a free browser English-learning game with 102 short lessons, mini-games, read-along fairy tales, and age-banded practice for children from age 3 and families.
Dad4Kids
A free, ad-free browser library of learning games for children, organised around early maths, reading, Spanish, STEM, logic, and U.S. grade levels.
Thought Zoo
A voice-friendly animal deduction game for ages 6–12 that builds questioning, habitat knowledge, and spoken English or Croatian practice.
Kohl Children’s Museum Classroom Activities
Kohl Children’s Museum classroom activities provide playful language, movement, storytelling, and inquiry ideas for educators and young learners.
RIF Back-to-School Reading Tools
Reading Is Fundamental’s Back-to-School page provides families and educators with free reading tools, book ideas, and literacy activities for children.
Bash & Mila
Bash & Mila is a bilingual Spanish-English story podcast for young children, built around short everyday adventures that support connection, curiosity, empathy, and natural language exposure.
Semillita
Semillita is a children’s story platform offering free online stories, guides, and a multilingual reading experience for young children and families.
Dreamtime Stories
Dreamtime Stories is a multilingual bedtime app with read-along narration, highlighted words, and calm stories designed for young children and bilingual families.
Vunali
Vunali is a multilingual story app for children ages 2–8 with short bedtime stories, offline reading, and a growing library labeled by age and length.
Reading Bear
A free phonics and vocabulary library with narrated presentations, quizzes, and early-reading practice for young learners.
Baamboozle
Teacher-made classroom games for review, speaking practice, vocabulary, science, social-emotional learning, and quick group play.
ReadWriteThink
Classroom-tested reading and language arts resources with interactive activities, lesson plans, and student tools from the National Council of Teachers of English.
International Children's Digital Library
A global digital library of children's books organized by language, genre, format, character, color, and more.
One Word Reading Initiative
A nonprofit reading initiative that provides culturally relevant books and family reading resources to children and communities.
Roy the Zebra
Interactive reading games, guided stories, songs, and worksheets that help emerging readers practise phonics, vocabulary, and early literacy.
ZigZu
A reading coach for children ages 4–8 that listens as they read levelled storybooks aloud and provides real-time pronunciation and phonics support.
Lumi
A free voice-first reading tutor for children ages 5–9, with adaptive phonics practice, spoken instructions, and short sessions.
Circle Round
A storytelling podcast for kids that adapts folktales from around the world into sound-rich stories about kindness, persistence, generosity, inclusion, and creativity.
MiniQuestKids
A free learning site combining phonics, decodable stories, early math games, worksheets, life-skills stories, and Hindi vocabulary practice.
StoryBeam Kids
A closed-catalog story app and website with short audio stories, transcripts, printable discussion guides, and age labels for family listening.
Wonder.io
An interactive reading website with choice-driven stories, read-aloud support, and playful comprehension activities for developing readers.
Timber
An iPhone and iPad reader that turns webpages, PDFs, books, and printed pages into spoken audio in many languages.
LingoStories
A free interactive story platform for language learners with simple graded stories, audio, translations, and choices.
Quill
Quill is a nonprofit literacy platform with free interactive activities for reading comprehension, writing, grammar, and language skills, including evidence-based writing prompts and teacher tools.
Austin Public Library KidSpeak
KidSpeak is an Austin Public Library digital language-learning resource with more than 40 activities, puzzles, songs, and practice experiences for children learning languages.
iReadify
iReadify is a digital literacy platform where children read and listen to culturally relevant stories, tap for word support, practice vocabulary and comprehension, and express ideas through writing.
Yomi
Yomi is a child-focused reading companion featuring a little cat that listens to children read and offers support across three reading levels.
KOBI
KOBI is a multilingual reading coach with stories, reading-together features, word games, progress insights, and classroom support for families and educators.
Mzanzi Kids
Mzanzi Kids is a multilingual early-learning app for South African children, using visual, speech, and pre-literacy activities across everyday themes.
Education.com Games
Educational games and interactive practice for math, reading, language, science, logic, typing, and early learning.
LittleActivity Reading
Structured free reading lessons from preschool through Grade 10 with phonics, sight words, comprehension, fluency, and short progressive practice.
Games to Learn English
A free collection of browser games for English vocabulary, grammar, listening, speaking, spelling, and classroom practice.
Build Learning
A family of early-learning apps that teaches reading, math, and writing through small guided steps, voice support, read-along sentences, and creative practice.
Tigzi
A personalized literacy app with read-aloud stories and practice designed to support phonics, sight words, and independent reading.
Baboo Stories
A parent-led story app with short gentle stories for bedtime and quiet reading, including free stories and optional subscription content.
Language Learning for Children
Language Learning for Children is a free, adaptable, family-based curriculum for children ages 3–9 that helps families and mixed-age classrooms begin learning a second language in any language.
EdNoKa
EdNoKa is a family-built educational game with five mini-game worlds and 36 quizzes covering math, science, social studies, and language for ages 8–11.
Duolingo
Game-like language lessons with short practice sessions, listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities.
Reading With Power
Free read-aloud videos, live reading sessions, and family guidance designed to make children’s reading more accessible.
Anga Reading
A reading app where children tap words to hear them, practice with short stories, and create private family stories with a grown-up.
Storypillar
A kids podcast that uses funny stories, cultural exploration, and social-emotional situations to help children talk about feelings, choices, and relationships.
Stories From Now And Then
A family story podcast that retells classic tales as gentle adventures for bedtime, car rides, and shared listening.
Kiddo Stories
A family reading app that supports dialogic reading, storytelling, and early literacy through shared stories and parent-guided conversation.
Kidz Korner
A free child-locked game collection with language adventure, shape and counting games, memory, math sprint, and logic challenges grouped by age.
SAM LMS
SAM LMS is a South African early-years coding and physical-computing platform using local stories, hands-on projects, and multilingual support for young learners.
KindyAI
KindyAI is a shared reading practice companion for children ages 4–7, with short stories, read-aloud help, word practice, spelling activities, and optional personalized books.
EnglishForEveryone.org
Printable English worksheets covering reading comprehension, phonics, vocabulary, grammar, writing, and language practice.
BrightSteps Kids
BrightSteps Kids offers short adaptive math and English practice with teacher-designed skills, voice support, rewards, and a parent progress view.
ESL Kids Games
Browser games and classroom activities for children learning English, with practice in vocabulary, spelling, listening, and basic language use.