Reading Kingdom

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Titus has been using Reading Kingdom several times a week to work on his reading skills. Reading Kingdom is an online reading program targeted at ages 4-10, or grades K-3. Reading Kingdom uses Dr. Marion Blank's "Phonics-PLUS" system, which teaches six different reading skills - sequencing, writing, sounds, meaning, grammar, and comprehension.

Reading Kingdom is different from most online reading programs that I have tried with my kids. One of the biggest differences is that Reading Kingdom requires your child to type in the correct words, using capitalization and punctuation. You can use either your keyboard or an on-screen keyboard. We used our regular keyboard, because I do think it is important for children to be able to correctly type on a keyboard.

We started out with the placement test, which is kind of long. Titus did not like this part, but it did help put him on the correct level. He was placed on level 3. Each lesson has 15 parts and takes around 15-20 minutes for Titus to complete. There are several components to each lesson. Each lesson teaches a word - in this example lesson, the word is "very." He has to find "very" several times in a short paragraph and click on it. The he has to to type in "very" in the same paragraph, which has blanks for the word. 

In this activity, he has to click the word that could be "very" and then type in the missing letters.

In this next activity, he has to read the paragraph. Then, he has to click the missing words and type them in. 

Now he has to read a sentence, and then click the correct words in order. 

He also has to read a sentence and then type each word in, using correct capitalization and the space bar. 

There are several more exercises in each lesson. At the top right of the screen, it lets you know how many activities you have left in the lesson. Titus likes this feature because he knows exactly how much is left in each lesson. 

I am pretty impressed with Reading Kingdom. Titus is already an excellent reader, but he did enjoy the activities. I am glad that he is getting practice using the keyboard and typing words in. I really like how the different skills are taught along with phonics. My children always learned to read best when they were putting it into practice like they do on Reading Kingdom - reading real paragraphs, learning about words and sentence structure, and learning how to spell the words they are learning to read. Reading in context is a great way to learn to read and to improve reading skills.

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