Let’s make it easy.
Tips for reading, listening, playing, and taking an activity off screen.
Printing your downloads
Open a collection and choose “Download PDF.” Each file lists its page count, resource code, and edition. Choose a storybook, a worksheet, or a complete story + quiz pack. The Print & make library lets you filter by grade, subject, skill and printable type, and preview a PDF before downloading.
- Open the downloaded file in a PDF reader.
- Use US Letter at actual size, or choose A4 and “Fit to page.” Check the preview before printing.
- Print one-sided for activities you will write on or cut apart. Ask a grown-up to help with scissors.
- Keep the adult answer guide separate. Use your printer’s page selection to print only the child activity pages.
- Print color activities in color: grayscale removes the information needed to answer them. Other worksheets and story packs can use black and white. Listening worksheets also need the matching sound on the website.
How can my child hear quiz questions and answers?
Every quiz game includes recorded narration for the question and each answer choice. Choose Let’s play or Listen all to hear them in order. The speaker below each answer replays that choice without choosing it. In Sound Planet, only the pictures on screen are read, in their displayed order. A glowing border follows the choice being read. Use Stop to end playback, or Sound off for quiet play. Animal-sound questions keep their original sound clues too.
These are saved recordings using the channel’s synthetic voices, served directly by this website. No microphone, account, or device read-aloud voice is needed. Audio starts after you press a play or replay control, not when you simply open a page. Check your device volume if you cannot hear it.
Why is there no sound on some stories?
Story pages show a Listen control when matching page narration is available. You can read any story aloud together. Story quiz questions and choices have their own recordings. Opening a page does not start audio.
Why does the story picture sometimes stay the same?
Some stories currently have one shared illustration. It stays visible as you turn pages, so you can enjoy the picture while the words change. When a page has its own illustration, the picture changes too. Use “Go to page” to jump to any part of the story.
How do I save my place?
In the reader, choose “Remember my page on this device.” The bookmark is stored in this browser. “Clear saved place” removes it. Private browsing or clearing browser data may remove the bookmark.
Can I play without dragging?
Yes. Matching games let you select one card from each side. Sequencing games let you tap cards into a list, then use Move up and Move down. The activities also work with a keyboard.
Can I use the activities without JavaScript?
Yes. Collection pages, download links and numbered library page links work without JavaScript. On a story page, open “Read the complete story” to read every page together. Interactive games, search and filter controls, and the page-by-page reader controls need JavaScript. You can also download a reading edition or printable activity.
Why does a quiz have several worksheets?
Long quizzes are split into small sets of at most seven questions. The set title shows its question range. A 20-question quiz has three sets; a 30-question quiz has five sets of six. Each set includes its own answer guide. Listening worksheets use the matching audio on the website.
How do I find more resources?
Choose “By skill” for small selections of beginning sounds, rhyming, counting, shapes, colors and stories. For the complete library, use the page-number links or “Next page” in Explore and Print & make; these links also work without JavaScript. Searches and filters check the whole library and take you back to page one. You can also search for a resource code such as MC-031-01.
Where are the YouTube videos?
Choose the Watch activity filter in Explore, or look for “Watch on YouTube” on a collection, story, or game. Links open the matching video in a new tab on YouTube. A collection only shows a Watch link when we have a confirmed match.