Reading & Words games
Phonics, sight words, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, figurative language and comprehension. The literacy games read words aloud, sound them out phoneme by phoneme on request, and bring back the words a student misses rather than marching through a fixed list.
9 reading & words activities
Word Builder
Sound it out, snap it together
Sight Word Safari
Catch the word you hear
Spelling Bee
Hear it, spell it, keep the streak
Rhyme Time
Word families that click
Grammar Garden
Nouns, verbs, commas and capitals
Sight Word Bingo
Eyes down — first to a line wins
Figure It Out
Simile, metaphor, or something else entirely
Story Detective
Read it, then prove you read it
Word Lab
Synonyms, antonyms, meanings
Browse by grade
Pre-KKinderGrade 1Grade 2Grade 3Grade 4Grade 5Grade 6Grade 7+
What Ankhdase tracks in reading & words
Ankhdase follows 23 separate reading & words skills. Every question a game asks is tagged with the skill it exercises, so progress is a map rather than a single percentage — and the recommendation engine can point a student at the specific thing that is shaky.
- Letter recognition
- Letter sounds
- CVC words
- Blends & digraphs
- Long vowels
- Rhyming & word families
- Sight words: pre-primer
- Sight words: primer
- Sight words: first grade
- Sight words: second grade
- Sight words: third grade
- Spelling
- Syllables
- Vocabulary
- Synonyms & antonyms
- Parts of speech
- Punctuation & capitals
- Verb tense
- Figurative language
- Idioms & expressions
- Reading comprehension
- Inference & evidence
- Main idea & detail
Questions about reading & words on Ankhdase
- Are these reading games free?
- Yes — all 9 are free, run in the browser, and need no download. You can play without an account; signing in only adds saved progress, streaks and badges.
- What ages are these reading games for?
- They span pre-k to grade 7+. Difficulty adapts per student rather than per game, so the same activity works across several year groups.
- How does Ankhdase decide what to show next?
- It keeps a mastery estimate for each of 23 reading skills. Questions drift toward the skills a student is getting wrong and away from ones they have already proved, aiming for roughly 80% accuracy — high enough to feel good, low enough to still be learning.
- Can I use these reading games in a classroom?
- Yes. Teachers can create a class, generate student logins in bulk without email addresses, set assignments with goals, and read a class heat map showing mastery per student per skill.
- Do they work offline or on a tablet?
- Most do. Once a page has loaded, a service worker keeps it working without a connection, and every drag interaction has a tap alternative for touchscreens. Typing activities need a physical keyboard.