From the same people that brought us Watch Know Learn comes a new website designed to help kids learn to read. Reading Bear is a free service that offers narrated lessons on recognizing and pronouncing letters and words. There are also some lessons on prefixes and suffixes. Students can control the pace of each lesson to match their needs.

After each lesson on Reading Bear students can take quizzes to test their skills. The quizzes present a picture and a set of words. Students have to match the correct word to the picture that they see. Through the narrator, students receive instant feedback on each question in the quiz.

Here is a five minute video overview of Reading Bear.



Applications for Education
Reading Bear could be a good independent activity or an activity that children work through with the assistance of a parent or tutor. Like most websites like it, Reading Bear isn’t a replacement for in-person reading lessons, but it could be a great support and practice resource.

H/T to Paul Hamilton who seems to have started blogging more regularly again. Good to see you’re blogging more Paul.