Students love playing games. Teachers love when students learn. When you put the two together, you get Ereading Games. As a reading teacher, I struggled to find reading games that were both educational and fun, so I developed my own. Now students around the world can play these games for free on any Internet connected computer.
Here’s how Ereading Games work. The rewarding gameplay gets students involved. They want to explore the levels and unlock secrets. But when they make in-game mistakes, students have to answer reading questions correctly or face in-game penalties. This provides students with an instant incentive to learn. They aren’t learning because of a grade that is seven weeks away; they are learning because they will “die” right now if they don’t. Students have fun and meet learning goals. Everybody wins when students play these reading games.
Context Clues Climber: Vocabulary Game
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Climb mountains. Fight beasts. Answer hundreds of vocabulary questions. Context Clues Climber has classic platform action with some cool new moves. Players can climb on the ceilings, hang from the walls, and break bricks with a pickaxe. They will have so much fun playing through 50 mountainous levels, they won’t even notice how many new words they are learning. Everyone wins this game.
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Genre Piranha: Literary Genre Game
Eat worms and avoid enemies.
Students play as a fish trying to make it to a lighthouse. Eat worms, hide in the weeds, and answer HUNDREDS of questions about literary genre. Did I mention that players occasionally transform into a giant fish that rules the waters? Or that you have to shoot yourself out of a cannon and blast through brick walls? It’s a lot of fun. This game is mobile-friendly.
Viewpoint Pilot: Point of View Game
Collect power-ups. Blast enemies.
Students blast through space in this awesome arcade-style shooter. Collect advanced power-ups, charge attacks, and identify the narrator’s perspective in hundreds of questions. The game starts out simple. Students just identify whether each passage narrated from first, second, or third-person perspective. But as the levels progress, students must soon distinguish between objective, limited, and omniscient modes of narration as well. This game is mobile-friendly.
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Download the Viewpoint Pilot App for Free in the App Store
Poetry Cat: Figurative Language and Poetic Devices Game
Collect yarn. Avoid enemies.
Play as a cat who can climb up walls. Collect all of the yarn balls to pass each level, but beware of dogs. This game has bouncy mechanics and a fun, cartoon feel to it. Also, students will identify HUNDREDS of figurative language techniques and poetic devices as they play through the game. Students and teachers really seem to like this one. It is my most popular reading game. This game is tablet-friendly.
Play Poetry Cat Now
Download the Poetry Cat App for Free in the App Store
Super Grammar Ninja: Parts of Speech and Sentence Structure Game
Learn about sentence structure.
Journey through 5 environments. Battle the most powerful warriors in the world. Learn parts of speech and sentence structure. Super Grammar Ninja combines elements of classic platform games like Megaman and Castlevania and adds language arts instruction. It’s a winning package. Students will battle bosses and unlock secret ninja attacks. They will also answer hundreds of questions about sentence structure and the parts of speech.
Orpheus the Lyrical: Figurative Language Game
Students must guide Orpheus through the underworld to save his beloved. He charms and subdues the beasts and monsters with the sorrow of his song. He collects power-ups and unlocks abilities, and he answers hundreds of figurative language questions. This was the first reading game that I ever made, way back in 2010. If you compare it to my newer games, you can see that I’ve grown as a programmer. Nonetheless, this is still one of my most popular games. Beat the whole game and you can unlock a sidekick.
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Download the Orpheus App for Free in the App Store
I hope that your students have as much fun playing these games as I did making them. I tried to do right by both the classroom and the gameroom. If you want to let me know how I did, sound off in the comments. I am continuing to develop new reading games. Next up: Context Clues Climber! Of course, I’d love to make a text structure game too. I better get back to work. Thanks for playing!
jose
/ April 18, 2019i like this
happy baby
/ February 26, 2019i love grammer ninja its a fun game i love it but u should add in grammer ninja madusa in there like a boss battle please :”)
Mr. Morton
/ March 6, 2019There are some serious boss battles in that game. No music though. ;p
Dhilip S
/ February 20, 2019VERY USEFUL FOR TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE
S Campbell
/ February 13, 2019One of my students found a glitch in the Orpheus game. If you are up high enough in the sky when you get to the end of the second level and continue going to the right, you will turn into an invisible sprite that can move anywhere on the second level. However, you cannot do anything else and have to restart the game.
Mr. Morton
/ March 28, 2019Yeah, that was the first game I programmed. I’ve gotten better over the years. There might be some other rough edges too in that old chestnut. Anyway, thanks for playing and sharing!
Bob
/ February 12, 2019Maybe a pirate game
Text Structure Pirate
Mr. Morton
/ March 28, 2019I love it. I’m finishing Context Clues Climber now. Then I’m working on a horse game. But I love pirates! Thanks for the suggestion.
Karl Miller McKimpson
/ February 3, 2019These games are amazing. Students love to play them, and through playing, they quickly master the skills,and far faster than is typical.
Is there one for learning high frequency vocabulary?
Mr. Morton
/ February 4, 2019Thank you so much. I am working on Context Clues Climber right now! I think it’s going to help a lot of students build vocabulary.
I’m hoping to have it done by the end of March. Sign up to my email list and be one of the first to hear about the release. Thank you for visiting my site and sharing it with your students!
PreAP kid
/ January 30, 2019Maybe like one that has food for weapons like fruits and you try to destroy the meat but every time you have to choose if a certain word is a noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, or adverb? I came up with that idea myself. If you miss there could be something like checkpoints that save certain Points that you’ve passed in the game?
brock
/ January 28, 2019hey nice games
Erin Falk
/ December 13, 2018Thank you for the games and great resources! Looking forward to seeing your context clues climber!
Mr. Morton
/ December 13, 2018Awesome. I’m working on it right now! Thanks for visiting and taking the time to comment.
haha
/ December 11, 2018this is fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
mia
/ February 25, 2019i love this game
mia
/ February 25, 2019ik right
Mark Fletcher
/ December 5, 2018I love this game
Mr. Morton
/ December 5, 2018Which one?
lolly senior
/ December 11, 2018i love the genra perana they should add shooting games
Mr. Morton
/ December 13, 2018Thanks. Have you tried viewpoint pilot? Lots of shooting (and learning) in that one.
Stephanie Crawford
/ November 29, 2018Your grammar game has indirect object as the answer for objects of prepositions. There is a definite difference. You need to fix this or take it down before you confuse any more kids.
The train hit a car on the tracks and derailed.
Tracks is the object of the preposition on not an indirect object.
Jacob hit me the ball.
Me is the indirect object.
Mr. Morton
/ December 5, 2018I appreciate your concern. Please use this as a teachable moment if you disagree with the way the content is taught and would like to continue to use the free games. That codebase is done and I have no plans of returning to it anytime soon. Best wishes!
COolCaMpBell
/ November 29, 2018This is a cool website
kyra
/ November 29, 2018I lovea ll of this this! Is like the best thing that ever happened to me!
Mr. Morton
/ November 29, 2018Wait until you see the new game that I’m working on:
Context Clues Climber
You’re going to love it!
Thanks for playing and taking the time to comment.
Lila
/ November 2, 2018I am going to be a desiner/ for games!!
Mr. Morton
/ November 2, 2018That sounds fun. Good luck!
Annibelle
/ November 2, 2018I love all of them! I want to be a game developer to!
Mr. Morton
/ November 2, 2018It’s not easy, but you seem pretty smart, and it’s a lot of fun if you like completing projects.
ceecee
/ November 1, 2018i love these game beacuse they have learning in it
Mr. Morton
/ November 1, 2018What a great attitude you have!
Angel Reed
/ October 30, 2018This needs more fun games
mak
/ October 19, 2018it needs more games
Mason
/ October 5, 2018love it
fornite
/ October 4, 2018i hate it it needs more games
Matthew
/ July 24, 2018Great games
I am admitidly 37 and play them regularly
I have found them very useful for writing group
maybe you should put them on steam for a low price
there are not many educational games on steam
I would buy them to support the developer
https://partner.steamgames.com/steamdirect
Mr. Morton
/ July 24, 2018Thank you for the kind words. I am 37 myself, with the better half of it spent gaming . I’ll look into Steam. Thank you for the suggestion and for playing the games. It is very motivating to read these things.
jackie
/ July 19, 2018lol
very true
Breanna
/ May 31, 2018I love the cat game although maybe a horse game would be fair…
Mr. Morton
/ June 29, 2018I like that idea. Horse game on deck!
cheerios
/ May 22, 2018i like the cat one
aslhy
/ May 21, 2018i liked
danyelle
/ May 14, 2018it seems kinda fun but not easy
jaxon nash
/ May 11, 2018cool games
Monana
/ April 30, 2018gude gaym!
Monana
/ April 30, 2018hi, im a stoodent, my name is monana and i like dis gaym very much thank you.
issac
/ April 9, 2018make more games
Mr. Morton
/ April 9, 2018I’m working on it. Making a game takes a long time, at least for me.
Yo MAMA
/ May 17, 2018When will one be ready?
Mr. Morton
/ June 29, 2018Good question. Maybe this winter, if I actually get to making one 😀
pretty
/ March 16, 2018nice game that has been played
Anonymous
/ March 16, 2018great games
CDL
/ March 14, 2018You’ve gotta shed some light on how you created these games! This will be my summer project! Is it a template, or will I have to finally learn to program? (hehehe)
Mr. Morton
/ March 14, 2018Well, I used ImpactJS as the game engine: http://impactjs.com/
It simplifies a lot of stuff, like you won’t have to program your own runloop, entity objects, collision mechanics, etc. But you still have to learn JavaScript and create pixel art. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. 😀 Good luck!
Krejci
/ March 1, 2018My students absolutely LOVE this game! Many of them have even been playing it at home!
Mr. Morton
/ March 1, 2018Isn’t that the best?
Elroy
/ January 31, 2018Maybe we should remove the weapons from history books as well.
Cathy Malone
/ November 3, 2017You need to remove the weapons from the games so we can use them in school.
Mr. Morton
/ November 8, 2017None of the games are violent. I believe only one or two have weapons. Maybe you could use the other ones?