Phonics

“My son loves it! He is just like a sponge, absorbing everything he is learning. He is already recognizing letters, and his speech development is improving too! I’m so glad I found this site!”

—Mother of a 3-year-old boy

The ABCmouse.com
Phonics curriculum includes:

  • Letter names
  • Single letter sounds
  • Sounding out simple words
  • Word families
  • Short and long vowel sounds

ABCmouse.com’s phonics curriculum helps teach
kids the relationship between each letter of
the alphabet and their sounds in a fun and
interactive environment. With thousands of
engaging learning activities, including games,
books, songs, and more, and an award-winning
preschool – kindergarten curriculum, your child will
learn to love to read at ABCmouse.com.

The ABCmouse.com phonics program helps teach children everything they need to know to become confident readers. With our full online preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten curriculum, children can start wherever they feel most comfortable and progress at their own pace.

The first step of phonics is to learn the names of the letters of the alphabet, both in their lowercase and uppercase forms. On ABCmouse.com, children will learn the alphabet through hundreds of books, games, songs, puzzles, and art activities, and will see and hear examples of many words that start with each letter.

Phonics Game
A - Apple 		Beginning Phonics Book
Letter B Book 		Phonics Puzzle
Uppercase Alphabet
Blocks Cutout Puzzle 		Alphabet Painting
M is for Mermaid

Once children can identify the names of each letter, they can begin learning the most common sounds represented by each of the 26 letters of the alphabet. ABCmouse.com’s collection of Letter Songs A-Z will help children identify those sounds, as will the hundreds of other games and activities such as the Alphabet Bubble Burst game and the book Alphabet in the Park.

Alphabet Book
Alphabet in the Park 		Phonics Game
Alphabet Bubble Burst 		Phonics Song
Letter X 		Phonics Game
Alphabet Wheel

Once children have mastered the sounds of each letter, they can learn how to sound out simple words with consonant-vowel-consonant patterns, such as “pig,” “dog,” “hat,” and so on. At ABCmouse.com, we provide hundreds of fun and engaging activities that help teach children to sound out common words, and as well as common word families (words that have the same ending sounds and letter combinations, such as “hot,” “pot,” and “not”).

Word Family Book
A Toy for Spot 		Word Family Puzzle
Word Family Jigsaw:
-og Family 		Word Family Book
Words Have Families Too 		Word Family Game
Word Family: -et

ABCmouse.com’s comprehensive curriculum has been designed in close collaboration with nationally recognized early childhood education experts, ensuring that the content aligns with best practices of early education. And with no advertising and no links to other websites, ABCmouse.com provides a completely child-safe resource.

Families use ABCmouse.com to help young children to prepare for and be successful in preschool, pre-kindergarten, and kindergarten classes. Visit our homepage to learn how ABCmouse.com’s Step–by–Step Learning Path makes it easy to help children enter school with confidence.

Teachers use ABCmouse.com to supplement their classroom curriculum with highly engaging and educational activities that can be done with the class as a whole (using a digital projector or Smart Board); with children working on computers individually or in small learning groups; or in a computer-lab setting.

Tutors use ABCmouse.com to help them pinpoint and address the individual needs of children who have fallen behind or wish to get ahead. ABCmouse.com’s Lesson Builder function is especially useful in tutoring applications, since it allows the tutor to select learning activities with specific educational objectives for learning and practice in between tutoring sessions.

Kimberly Oliver–Burnim

Kindergarten and First Grade Teacher
National Teacher of the Year, 2006

“Research has shown that children learn more from birth to age five than at any other time in their lives. Children who complete the curriculum of ABCmouse.com during those all–important formative years will be very well prepared for kindergarten, and that can make a very big difference in the rest of their schooling.”

Dr. Rebecca Palacios

Pre-K Teacher for more than 25 years
Founding Director of the National Board for Professional

Teaching Standards

“Parents want to help their young children learn, but may not know where to turn for the right educational resources. If I could recommend only one online resource to parents of young children, it would be ABCmouse.com, without a doubt.”