Ziptales

Ziptales is a complete ‘reading scheme’ for ‘independent’ or ‘emergent’ primary age children. It is like a very large online library.

Why read online at all?

Because serious research, in both the UK and the USA, has demonstrated beyond any doubt that learning done with computers has a very high motivational effect on children. It is a remarkably broad-based tool – appealing to both boys and girls equally. It works as well with struggling students as with the gifted.

If you look at the Ziptales website, you will notice how colourful and ‘child-friendly’ it is. Ziptales makes reading seem ‘cool’. It uses technology children already know and love, not for games but for genuine (indeed core curriculum) educational purposes.