Friday, January 11, 2019

Literacy Website #7


 Funbrain (https://www.funbrain.com) is free website created for kids in grades Pre-K through 8th grade.  It provides games, books, and videos, that help kids enhances skills in literacy and math.  Each game, book, and video is tagged with key subject areas and skills, such as counting, vowels, and spelling.
            Funbrain has various games that promote literacy.  Grammar Gorillas reviews kids on parts of speech, Word Confusion allows children to choose the correct word to complete the sentence, Spellaroo makes kids identify the misspelled word in sentence, and Sign the Alphabet helps students practice signing the alphabet.  Other games include  vowels, vocabulary, word concentration, verbs, and more.
            Funbrain reading has numerous books that students can read as eBooks. The website has books such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Judy Moody books, Stink books, Tom Gates books, and more.  Funbrain videos features animated storybooks. The animated stories come from High Five magazine and features fun characters.  Each video provides a description of the story and the video has captions so kids can read along while watching.
            Overall, Funbrain is a colorful and fun website that kids will enjoy.  The games are fun and loads fast.  There are no pop up adds after playing.  There are many books that students can read and purchase.  They have numerous videos that promote storytelling and well as encourage students to read along with the story. 

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