Educational Website

I looked at http://www.starfall.com I spent well over an hour looking at everything they had to offer and I was amazed! What an AWESOME website! It is all about reading. it starts from letter recognition and goes up to reading. I played with each level and this is what I found.... On the letter recognition step you can click on any letter and it will give you the name and the sound of the letter along with a picture and a word that coensides with it. The website is very interactive, you just click on the sparkly areas and move on to the next page. Another thing I loved was the Alphabet song. It features a man who sings the song but he gives the letter and a word that starts with that letter it also gives movements that goes along with the word. I can see this helping to aide in memorization. In the learn to read section, you can click on a word in a story and it will sound out the word letter by letter. It also has some really cute movies that go along with the learning to read. One I watched was how the alphabet got it's order. Very cute! The website has lots of fun things that go along with holidays. I looked at the valentines day section and there was a game that you put words together to make a sentence. I am going to bookmark this webpage not only for my students but for Olivia as well! I think she will benefit from it when she is old enough. I also sent this website to a friend who has a 7 and 3 year old. Her 7 year old is having a little trouble in reading so I thought this would be an awesome and fun way to help him out!