Starfall I'm Reading

Starfall Education Foundation

About this app

The Starfall® I'm Reading app contains a FREE selection of activities from Starfall.com. This app is the fourth step of Starfall’s free Learn-to-Read sequence and will help your child make the leap from learning to read, to reading to learn.

Starfall I’m Reading develops comprehension and reading fluency in beginning and advancing readers. The stories in this app contain a controlled vocabulary set, using the words most frequently encountered in print. The stories and activities reinforce high-frequency words, also called “sight words,” in sentences rather than in isolation. This ensures the young reader will make a meaningful association with each word and more readily commit it to memory. The stories can be read aloud to model the qualities of fluent reading: intonation, expression, inflection and rate. Users can enable or disable the AutoRead feature. Audio buttons are supplied for fluency when AutoRead is off.

The app includes:

* Plays, Fiction/NonFiction, Comics, Folk Tales, Greek Myths, and Chinese Fables from the Starfall website.
* Controlled vocabulary, using words most frequently encountered in print.
* An AutoRead feature to model fluent reading, which can be disabled once your child is able to read independently.

The Starfall website and applications are program services of Starfall Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) publicly supported nonprofit organization. Starfall® and Starfall.com® are registered trademarks in the U.S., the European Union, and various other countries. Copyright © 2002–2023 by Starfall Education. All rights reserved.

Ratings and reviews

I really enjoyed this app and it will be easy for the younger users to maneuver and those that may have limited motor skills. It can be used as a good morning starter in the classroom or for a 5-minute in class break. This app offers a variety of activities that involve listening to stories such as folk-tales, fiction, non-fiction, and comic books. The user also has access to clip-and-drag puzzles to make sentences, clip-and-drag words to puzzle blocks, plays, Greek myths, Chinese fables, and a variety of lessons on morals, opposites, etc. However, there are in app purchases that will need to be made in order to gain access to other activities such as the talking library, money, and math links. I particularly like the way the stories are told. The words are highlighted as the narrator reads and the pages will not turn until the user clicks for it to, which may encourage the user to look at the illustrations to make predictions, perhaps try to read the words, and etc. Overall, I find this app to be very useful, especially for younger users and for those who struggle with reading and just needs something fun to play while increasing reading skills and much more. Wallene, 2020

This app is excellent for beginning readers and early readers. The stories and illustrations are remarkable.

Maybe Starfall could add longer stories and have new characters but the game is Awesome.

What's new

The latest version of Starfall I'm Reading offers performance enhancements and minor bug fixes for a better user experience.
Have fun learning!