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Here’s a delightful resource to help develop and re-enforce fundamental reading skills. I’ve filed this on the Content & Curriculum page.

Starfall.com (online resource) This is a high quality and well organized website that is offered as a “free public service” to facilitate the building of basic literacy and reading skills. Pre-kindergarten to grade 2 are the targeted reading levels. The interactive flash activities are well designed, appealing, and easy to use. Activities and stories, are arranged in four levels, beginning with those designed to help develop reading readiness. In many activities, a natural child’s voice reads aloud while words are highlighted on screen. Printouts are available to accompany some activities; and other activities can be printed when complete. The pages of this web site are uncluttered and ad-free.

The start-page, shown below, gives a good overview of what is available on the site.

[Note: For best results with Starfall.com, or with any website that requires a Flash Player, make sure that you have downloaded and installed the latest version of the player that works with your computer's operating system. By clicking on the following link, you can find out which version you are using at the moment. You can then follow links to download an upgrade if you need it. http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/]