Starfall Activity Index

My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson You’re never alone when you have your trusty shadow to follow you wherever you go. This whimsical poem by Robert Louis Stevenson reveals how your own shadow can be a fun companion to have along.

Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina Georgina Rosetti This beautiful and thought-provoking poem invites the reader to consider the power that an unseen force like the wind can have in the world around us.

Get tongue tied with Starfall Tongue Twisters. Listen along or read them yourself. Read them fast for silly fun!

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy, wasn't very fuzzy Was he?

Click to pick peppers with Peter. How many peppers can you pick? Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

Press to sell the seashells and see what happens. She sells seashells By the seashore.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck If a woodchuck could chuck wood? He would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could If a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Can you answer these riddles? You will laugh when you see the answers to these funny questions. It's silly but it’s all true!

Honk! Honk! What game does a Canada Goose play? It’s all true! Solve this riddle and join the parade.

Meow! Meow! What does the Catbird really sing? Solve this riddle and see if you know the real answer. It's all true!

What does the Sandhill Crane do with those long legs? Fish for an answer to solve this funny riddle. It's all true!

This bird loves to sing! Solve this riddle and learn what silly places the Redwing Blackbird like to nest. It's all true!

The plays, folk tales, informational texts, myths, and fables in Starfall's I'm Reading index will transition your child from learning to read to reading to learn. These vocabulary-controlled stories ensure meaningful practice reading high-frequency words (also called sight-words).

Have you ever been in a play? Here are three little plays we can all do together. Be actors in a play while learning high frequency words.

We can be actors in our own play! What fun to pretend and learn high frequency words at the same time!

Dog has a cold. Cat has to stay away. How will these two friends get together to play? High frequency word practice. Written by Margaret Hillert.

Carla has a secret. Can Mark guess what it is? Play the guessing game with these two friends and learn high frequency words at the same time. Written by Margaret Hillert.

Mother wants a little help making cookies. Carla and Mark learn how cookies are made and get to eat them too. High frequency word practice. Written by Margaret Hillert.

Drag whole high frequency words to their corresponding shapes. Hear each word and the sentence they make read fluently.

Drag whole high frequency words to their corresponding shapes. Hear each word and the sentence they make read fluently.