7 Awesome Apps To Help Your Child Learn To Read

Teaching your child to read can be challenging, but these awesome apps will help your child learn to read while having fun. Yes! Learning to read can be fun and you can totally do it without a boxed curriculum. 

Discover how we embraced technology and found 7 great reading apps to help Emily practice phonics, spelling, rhyming, word families, and all kinds of early reading skills at home. Plus, these apps are easy to take with us when we’re on the go. Are you ready to feel good about saying yes to screen time?

Keep reading to find out about these great reading apps you can use to help your child learn to read. They’re perfect for visual learners, auditory learners, and even kinesthetic learners with fun videos, engaging games, and hands-on practice. 

Teaching Your Child To Read

Teaching your child to read is sort of like riding a roller coaster. It’s a big climb to the top, but then you race over the edge and it’s wonderful! When you’re still in the trenches, it feels incredibly difficult, frustrating, and as if you’ll never get there. 

Learning to read is certainly challenging, but it can be a lot of fun too. You can make reading more fun for your child and yourself by reading aloud, playing fun reading games, strewing reading toys, and embracing some really cool reading apps to help your child learn. Keep reading to discover 7 apps that will help your child learn to read while having fun this year.

7 Apps To Help Your Child Learn To Read

Embracing technology in your homeschool opens all kinds of doors! Great apps encourage reluctant learners in ways other media and materials just can’t do as successfully. 

These apps combine visual and auditory learning with hands-on practice. They’re perfect for practicing reading skills with your homeschooler at home and on the go. Check out 5 great reading apps you can use to help your child master reading below.

Starfall Learn to Read

The Starfall reading program has been teaching kids to read since 2002. In this app, kids will hear, touch, read, and eventually master letter sounds and spelling. The app features engaging activities, fun videos, and silly letter sound songs your child will love. It’s excellent for emerging readers!

Teach Your Monster to Read

Teachers have been in love with Teach Your Monster to Read for years. You can use the app at home with your child to build literacy skills with fun mini-games, missions, and quests they complete with their own unique monster creation. The app covers two years’ worth of reading skills from beginning letter sounds all the way through reading beginner books. 

ABC Mouse

The ABC Mouse App covers math skills in addition to literacy skills with a step-by-step learning path that guides your child through the learning standards at their one pace. One of my favorite things about the app is that kids can customize the experience to make it all their own with a special avatar, pet park, and even their own room decorations. Plus, parents can track and monitor their progress from their own devices. 

This app is good for kids who have struggled with learning to read because it helps children from kindergarten all the way through third grade. It’s perfect for reluctant readers who need a little extra help and it’s a lot of fun too!

Endless Wordplay

Endless Wordplay helps kids practice spelling, building words, and rhyming. This app introduces key spelling patterns and phonograms that are important for beginning reading and writing. The progressive learning path makes it easy for children to interact with the app at their own pace without focusing on “getting the high score.”

The entertaining and illustrative animations are as fun as they are educational. Your child will quickly fall in love with the endless monsters and “alpha-bot.” 

Super Why! Phonics Fair

One of my favorite things about this app is that it’s totally free. All 60 word families are automatically available at zero cost. It includes 5 interactive literacy games to help your child practice reading, spelling, and building words.

Khan Academy Kids

The Khan Academy Kids app includes more than just reading, your child can practice early math skills too. It’s totally free and perfect for children from preschool all the way through second grade. The fun games and hands-on learning activities will help your child learn to read by practicing parts of speech, reading original books (including non-fiction), and learning new vocabulary words.

LeapFrog Academy Learning Games

Send your child on a learning adventure with the LeapFrog Academy of learning games. This app will help your kids build confidence as they practice the alphabet, syllables, and rhyming. They’ll build critical thinking skills and engage in creative activities along the way too. 

Additional Resources for Technology In Your Homeschool

There are so many fun resources and apps you can use to really take advantage of technology in your homeschool. I want to encourage you not to be afraid of screentime, but to embrace it as a new way to practice important skills and learn together as a family. Check out some of my additional resources for adding technology to a variety of subjects in your homeschool below.

Plus, don’t miss 10 Must Haves For Learning To Read including fun reading games, great books, and tips on how you can teach reading without a boxed curriculum. Are you ready to help your child learn to read this year? 

What are your favorite apps to practice reading skills? Share your favorites in the comments. I can’t wait to check them out!