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One of my offline audience members (my dad) told me about this site. He tutors some first graders at local elementary school but doesn't like the materials they use. So he searched for phonics on the internet and found this site. It's great!!

This site expertly combines educational content with images, animation, interactivity, and sound. Wow! Its audience is beginning and early readers or what the site authors more precisely call "emergent readers." Its purpose is to teach reading through the use of phonics.

My son loved the Word Hunt, where kids can make different endings to the sentence, "The rabbit is...." When you place "pretty" at the end, a bow appears on the rabbit; when you place "old" there, gray hair and glasses appear.

There are sections for parents and teachers, and offline resources available to students through grade 2.