Reading games for kids
No sign-up · made for kids 4–10Reading grows in small steps: knowing the letters, hearing their sounds, blending sounds into words, and then reading the common words by sight. These free games follow those steps, with a voice that says every sound and a picture for every word, so children who can't read yet can still play. Each game starts easy and grows as your child gets it right, in the browser with no sign-up, no ads and nothing to buy.
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Questions parents ask
What are good free reading games for kids?
Phonics Match, Phonics Blend, Sight Words, Rhyme Time, Missing Letter and Story Builder on Tiny Players are free reading games for pre-K to 2nd grade. A voice says every sound and every word has a picture, and they play in the browser with no sign-up, no ads and nothing to buy.
Can my child play if they can't read yet?
Yes. The early games are spoken and use pictures, so children who are just starting can play on their own; tapping a letter or a block says its sound.
What order should kids learn to read in?
Letters and their sounds first, then blending sounds into short words like cat and sun, then the common sight words. These games are listed in that order.
Are there games for older readers?
Yes. Word Scramble, Word Guess and Word Search have longer words for 2nd to 5th grade, and our spelling games page has more.
About these games
What they practise and where to go next
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Start with Phonics Match and ABC Order for letters and their sounds. Phonics Blend shows how sounds slide together into a word (c, a, t… cat!), first by tapping the blocks and later by building the words yourself, and Rhyme Time trains the ear for word endings.
Then Sight Words pops the common words children meet in every book, Missing Letter asks for the letter that finishes a word, and Story Builder lets them make their own little picture story and play it back as a comic.
What they practise
- Letters and their sounds (phonics)
- Blending sounds into words
- The first sight words
- Rhymes, word endings and spelling simple words
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About each game
A line on every game here
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- Phonics Match Galah says a letter sound.
- Phonics Blend c, a, t… cat!
- Sight Words Hear a word, then pop the bubble with that word!
- Rhyme Time Cat, hat!
- Missing Letter Look at the picture and tap the letter that finishes the word!
- ABC Order What comes next?
- Story Builder Make your own picture story!
- Word Scramble Look at the picture and put the jumbled letters in order to spell it!
- Halloween Dot to Dot Join the dots from 1 upwards to draw a smiling pumpkin, a sleepy bat or a friendly ghost, then watch your picture come to life.
- Word Guess Look at the picture and tap the letters of its word!
- Word Search Help Wombat the word detective find hidden words on a farm, at a picnic, under the sea, in the snow and in space.
- Trace the Alphabet Start at the green dot and follow the arrows!