Roy the Zebra (https://www.rocketlit.com/) is a free resource that’s all about supporting emerging readers with their literacy skills, it’s used at schools and at home. This site is a great introduction to the kind of content you’ll find on their membership site Club Roy.
Roy the Zebra is home to an engaging range of reading, spelling, and punctuation games, as well as an exciting guided reading story, lesson plans, printable resources and even songs - this website is completely free.
Roy is aimed at 5 to 7 year-olds. It’s often used as a tool to support readers who aren’t progressing as expected - giving these readers an interesting and different resource builds their reading and spelling confidence and helps to establish an early ‘love for reading’. If you like the content on this free site then consider becoming a member of Club Roy.
Club Roy is Roy the Zebra’s membership site. It has 149 reading, spelling and punctuation games over 13 different topics and 16 game themes, Operation Rescue Lucy guided reading story plus more than 700 printable resources and is advert free. Club Roy aims to be an affordable resource to complement school reading systems and can be used at home as well.
Overall, Roy the Zebra is an excellent interactive site for emerging readers. The site consists mainly of a guided story section and interactive reading games section. The guided stories have pre and post-reading discussion sheets as well as related literacy worksheets. The interactive games section includes games on word level and sentence level to enhance skills such as phonics, rhyming words, alphabetical ordering, punctuation and comprehension etc. There is also a paid option in which you can install the reading software along with hundreds of printable resources like worksheets, flashcards, wall displays etc.
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