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Beginning readers will gravitate to the entertaining activities on Starfall. Sound, video and animation enhance the engaging interactive reading activities. Children can hear the sounds and words pronounced while they are doing the activities like helping to grow a flower in the Garden Shop or one of the many holiday activities like making a Valentine or sorting recyclables for Earth Day. The activities have real appeal for young children, with riddles, tongue-twisters and kid’s favorite folktales used to demonstrate the reading concepts. For the youngest children, the “ABCs” section features the sounds of the letters of the alphabet, critical for reading readiness. “Learn to Read” is geared to the beginning reader who is ready to put sounds together in word families. There are short and long vowel activities as well as activities featuring sight words. “It’s Fun to Read” organizes stories for the intermediate beginning reader into categories like Magic, Music and All About Me. The highest level materials including Myths, Folktales, Comics and Plays are available in the “I’m Reading” section.For the educator, the site explains the scope and sequence of the learn-to-read materials and also provides easy access to free downloadable and printable materials. Writing journals, books and multiple copies of the teaching materials available for download can also be purchased from this company.