Starfall’s low-cost membership program expands the free content to include additional animated songs, mathematics activities, and reading. It is widely used in schools and homeschools. Its emphasis on phonemic awareness, systematic sequential phonics, and common sight words in conjunction with audiovisual interactivity is especially effective for teaching emergent readers, children of all ages with special needs or learning difficulties, as well as ELL (ESL) students. Starfall activities are research-based and align with state learning objectives for English language arts and mathematics.

Due to the engaging content that “feels like play,” Starfall serves as an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children. The program emphasizes exploration, play, and positive reinforcement-encouraging children to become confident and intrinsically motivated. Since then it has expanded to include standards in language arts and mathematics for preschool through fifth grade and above. Starfall was developed in the classroom by teachers and opened in August 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read. He was motivated to create a learning platform with untimed, multisensory interactive games that allow children to see, hear, and touch as they learn. Stephen Schutz, who had difficulty learning to read as a child due to dyslexia. Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.At Starfall, children have fun while they learn. Our systematic approach, in conjunction with audiovisual interactivity, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Starfall has been teaching children to read with phonics for well over a decade. On July 1, 2015, the Polis-Schutz family donated their full interest in Starfall to the Starfall Education Foundation. The website opened in September of 2002 as a free public service and social enterprise supported by the Polis-Schutz family. The Starfall Website is a program service of Starfall Education Foundation, a publicly supported nonprofit organization, 501(c)(3). Your child will have fun learning essential reading and math skills through exploration! Your membership fee ensures that we can continue to provide Classic Starfall free of charge and offer low-cost, high-quality, educational resources to classrooms. Our low-cost membership program expands the free content you already enjoy to include delightfully animated songs, mathematics, and reading activities spanning pre-k to 2nd grade.

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Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children. Our systematic approach, in conjunction with audiovisual interactivity, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development ( ELD, ELL, ESL). The Starfall curriculum has been teaching children to read with phonics for well over a decade. The Starfall Website is a program service of Starfall Education Foundation, a publicly supported nonprofit organization, 501©(3).

Reading both literature and informational texts such as poetry, comics, Chinese fables, and more.

Base ten counting and arithmetic operations.

Standards-based set of lessons appropriate for first-graders.