Learning games
6 games for the things a child is learning anyway: which letter a word starts with, how to spell it, and what the sum comes to.
The games
- MathLearning
- Word GuessLearning
- Catch the BubblesLearning
- First LetterLearning
- Spell ItLearning
- Word SearchLearning
The rule these follow is that the game shows the answer and offers to say it, rather than asking a child to identify something they can only hear. Nothing here asks that. Speech in a browser is unreliable in a way nothing can detect from the page: a voice can be installed, be selected, report that it has finished, and produce no sound at all. So the letter is always on the screen, with a speaker button beside it for anyone who wants one.
Difficulty is a row of buttons at the top. The game reopens on whichever one you last chose. No settings screen.
The arithmetic game is pinned left-to-right even when the rest of the site is running in Hebrew. Mirroring it changes the sum. An equation is not a sentence, and the layout rule that is right for prose is wrong for arithmetic, which is the kind of thing you only find out by watching a child read one backwards.
Common questions
Do these teach reading?
They practise pieces of it. First letters, letter sounds, and spelling short words. They are not a reading scheme and nothing here claims to replace one.
Which languages are the letters in?
The alphabet games follow the language the site is set to. The interface speaks eleven languages; the written pages exist in four.
Is there a way to make it harder?
Yes. Every game in this group has a difficulty row, and the choice is remembered on the device, so it opens where you left it.