Each app section features a vowel sound and its related spelling. It may be fun, but Zac is not fooling around. Zac the Rat has taught countless kids to read, and he can teach yours too.

Additional paid modules are also available, but optional. All app sections focus on successful outcomes and concentrate on positive reinforcement from an agreeable teacher, so kids are encouraged to keep reading. Finally, Turn the Blocks lets kids formulate new words by rotating lettered blocks on their sides until a real word emerges from the combination. Then there’s Skateboards and Helmet, where the kiddos can practice reading as they outfit Tommy’s animal buddies with skateboards and helmets. The app’s free sections include Magic Letter Bridge, where kids are taught to blend letter sounds into words by scooting Tommy across the letter bridge. The lite version of Learn to Read with Tommy Turtle, a charming kid’s game that encourages preschool children to blend sounds into words, read and say words, identify words, and learn word families, is absolutely free and a great way for kids to get started with reading and comprehension. An all-access subscription for $4 per month provides hundreds of stories, audio for stories to be read aloud, highlighting of words to read along, and more. You can track and export test results to share student progress. Aligned with CCSS - Common Core State Standards - the lessons are appropriate for classrooms or independent study. Users can read and test comprehension with questions about selected passages.

This reading comprehension series is targeted to students seeking to augment their reading and comprehension skills with free original fiction and non-fiction stories from the second to eighth grade levels.

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