Reading Games For Fun

Free Rice: Practice your vocabulary while ending world hunger!

Building Vocabulary Muscle : Build your vocabulary muscles with these online quizzes.

Professor Garfield Reading Ring: Wrestle your opponent while putting together a comic strip.

Which Writing is Right: Expository writing is a style used to present facts and ideas. Click the clipboard to reveal some writing samples and decide whether or not they fit the category of expository writing.

Robo-Bee: Will your language skills blossom or wilt? It's up to you as you control the flight of the Robo-Bee through a garden of synonyms, antonyms, spelling, and usage puzzles!

Big Bot: Feed the BIGbots! These word-automated machines have quite an appetite, so come prepared with a voracious vocabulary! Good hand and eye coordination is a definite plus!

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire : Learn the elements of literature while playing "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire : Learn figurative language while playing "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire : Practice simile, metaphor, hyperbole, onomatopoeia while playing "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire : Learn analogies while playing "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire : Practice synonyms and antonyms while playing "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire : Practice text structure while playing "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire : Practice connotation while playing "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"

Genre Pirahna: Students play as a fish trying to make it to a lighthouse. Eat worms, hide in the weeds, and answer HUNDREDS of questions about literary genre. Did I mention that players occasionally transform into a giant fish that rules the waters? Or that you have to shoot yourself out of a cannon and blast through brick walls?

Viewpoint Pilot: Students blast through space in this awesome arcade-style shooter. Collect advanced power-ups, charge attacks, and identify the narrator’s perspective in hundreds of questions. The game starts out simple. Students just identify whether each passage narrated from first, second, or third-person perspective. But as the levels progress, students must soon distinguish between objective, limited, and omniscient modes of narration as well.

Poetry Cat: Play as a cat who can climb up walls. Collect all of the yarn balls to pass each level, but beware of dogs. This game has bouncy mechanics and a fun, cartoon feel to it. Also, students will identify HUNDREDS of figurative language techniques and poetic devices as they play through the game.

Super Grammar Ninja: Journey through 5 environments. Battle the most powerful warriors in the world. Learn parts of speech and sentence structure. Super Grammar Ninja combines elements of classic platform games like Megaman and Castlevania and adds language arts instruction. It’s a winning package. Students will battle bosses and unlock secret ninja attacks.

Orpheus the Lyrical: Students must guide Orpheus through the underworld to save his beloved. He charms and subdues the beasts and monsters with the sorrow of his song. He collects power-ups and unlocks abilities, and he answers hundreds of figurative language questions.

Play Spent: Can you survive the month with just $1000 and a child to take care of?

Affect vs. Effect: Practice the difference between affect and effect with this game.

Accept vs Except vs Expect: Practice the difference between these words with this game.

Olympic Root Words: Practice your root words while playing in the Olympics!

Slang Gang: Use this game to practice learning idioms.