I don’t know how they fund it (well, there’s a store with games, books, journals, plush dolls, and phonics packs), but bottom line, it’s a wonderful site, and I give a lot of credit to Starfall for making it easy for my sons to learn phonemes. The lessons may be low in production value, but it’s very lightweight bitwise, so it can work in low bandwidth, while still being very colorful and full of great animation. And there are activities for every season and holiday on the Calendar: Earth Day’s cleanup is one of our favorites. There’s even a lesson on the alphabet in American Sign Language. It is absolutely the best program I’ve seen for teaching regular* kids letter sounds and letter combinations, building skills along an excellent curriculum with fun games, songs, stories to click around, and more. My neice-in-law turned me onto this site, after her daughter learned to read on it. When they play online, they have a select few favorite sites: My sons, 2 and 5, have some time on the computer every week.
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