Reading Games

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.

Homophone Bee: Word Choice Game

This is a gameplay image from Homophone Bee.
Advanced Platform Action!

Players fly through 50 levels, pollinating flowers and fighting insects. Students will answer over 600 word choice questions to help them master homophones. They sting and dodge dangerous insects, and if they get hit, they must answer a homophone question correctly or start over. This is a fun, engaging, and educational adventure. Check it out now!

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Conflict Cars: Reading Game

This is a gameplay image from Conflict Cars.
Arcade style racing!

Students choose one of 15 different vehicles and race in 5 different circuits. Players zoom past CPU players and answer hundreds of questions about literary conflict along the way. When they bump into another vehicle, they must answer the question correctly or spin out. Some of the vehicles (like an ice-cream truck and a dune buggy) must be unlocked. Students practice reading skills while trying to score the fastest time on each track. Check it out now!

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Idiom Unicorn: Reading Comprehension Game

This is a gameplay image from Idiom Unicorn.
Colorful worlds and tricky idioms!

Students play as a unicorn in this bright, colorful reading game. They rainbow blast their way through hordes of evil knights and wizards and jump over challenging obstacles. This game features hundreds of challenging idioms. Students will gain exposure to these commonly used phrases and decode meanings based on context-rich sentences. This one is a lot of fun!

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Context Clues Climber: Vocabulary Game

This is the title screen of Context Clues Climber, a vocabulary game.
Hundreds of challenging vocab words!

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

This is a screenshot of Genre Piranha: Literary Genre Review Game. An eel is shooting electricity at the player.
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.

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Viewpoint Pilot: Point of View Game

This is a screenshot of Viewpoint Pilot. The player is surrounded by enemies and is firing a plasma weapon.
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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Poetry Cat: Poetic Devices Game

This is a screenshot of Poetry Cat. The cat is surrounded by enemies and about to get hit with a rock.
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.

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Super Grammar Ninja: Parts of Speech and Sentence Structure Game

This is a screenshot of Super Grammar Ninja. The player is in a school learning about sentence structure.
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.

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Orpheus the Lyrical: Figurative Language Game


This is a screenshot of Orpheus the Lyrical. He is in a graveyard with a zombie and a skeleton.

Travel through the underworld.

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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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!

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386 Comments

  1. Thalia

     /  June 29, 2022

    Your games are amazing! Thank you so much! Appreciate the hard work that you do!

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    • Thank you. I am working on a new one that one of my visitors suggested: Conflict Cars.

      I hope it’s done by Fall.

      Thank you for playing.
      Come back again!

      Reply
  2. andrew.f

     /  May 26, 2022

    i like orpheus the lyrical good game but one thing can you make the the divels throw there sprer slower am keep on losen my power up .

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  3. andrew

     /  May 26, 2022

    i like orpheus the lyrical good game but one thing can you make the the divels throw there sprer slower am keep on losen my power up .

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  4. justin butnaru

     /  May 23, 2022

    i am a kid from a class room the dudde should have more than just one life also the game is addicting

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  5. madelyn

     /  May 18, 2022

    i like this game but im still hanging on it and im on leveal 9 still

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  6. Gizelle

     /  May 18, 2022

    make poetrey cat easyer

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  7. Gizelle

     /  May 18, 2022

    If u get a question wrong, the cat should not die, because u lose all the process. The cat must have at least 4 lives.

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  8. Aaliyah[]plays

     /  April 15, 2022

    this is the best game iv ever plaed

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  9. marcy phelps

     /  April 15, 2022

    i love this for my kids and my students they dont relize but… there learning

    Reply
  10. denny

     /  April 14, 2022

    hey it is me, denny. just want to know how r u doin with ur new game, I really enjoy all of them (because it is fun to mess around with the code)
    I made the ninja have ten blue rings, and he take 0 dmg 😛 and the cat I made the cat have inf jump height 😀

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  11. sue

     /  March 24, 2022

    Do all of the games require a download? Students can’t download on their school laptops.

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  12. u

     /  March 18, 2022

    These provide help to us kids my class loves these games so much~!

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    • baby

       /  June 6, 2022

      MY TEACHER LETS US PLAY ALL THESE GAMES SO FUN BRO!!!

      Reply
  13. johnnyboy

     /  February 15, 2022

    You need a new game

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  14. Melanie Doverrr

     /  February 10, 2022

    10/10 best games. Ive played a lot of reading games but these are the best ones yet. The only sad this is that my right arrow key doesn’t work so I cant play most of them. But I do have to say, maybe you could add more games? Like terraria style or something like that. 🙂

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  15. regina

     /  February 10, 2022

    I like it in all but, The games are getting quite old? do you think you can make a new game??
    maybe a less raging one my whole class rages!!

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  16. haword

     /  February 10, 2022

    The games are fun but context clue climbers can pretty raging sometime.

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  17. regina

     /  February 10, 2022

    this makes me rage

    Reply
  18. marcy phelps

     /  January 26, 2022

    i love this content for my kid ty

    Reply
  19. trey

     /  January 25, 2022

    good game

    Reply
  20. Maria

     /  January 7, 2022

    hiiiii i love poetry cat

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  21. No U

     /  December 6, 2021

    Meh they were decent

    Reply
  22. sloth QUEEN

     /  December 1, 2021

    you should make a SLOTH GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG WHO AGREES 🙂

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  23. Trenton

     /  December 1, 2021

    Great games !! all these games are very fun to play and very educational I have beaten all of them but i recommend context clues climber Orpheus the lyrical and poetry cat. Thanks for creating such fun learning games! =]

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  24. Maria

     /  November 30, 2021

    In poetry cat can you make like a list of what all the metaphors and the stuff? And can you also make level 23 a bit easier in poetry cat??

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    • sloth QUEEN

       /  December 1, 2021

      OMG I AGREE 🙂

      Reply
    • denny

       /  April 14, 2022

      oh it is possible though, fifty lv’s beat them all, but if you do the game again lv 43 is impossible, so you have to delete one of the stone bid’s code

      Reply
  25. BaBy oaky

     /  November 21, 2021

    Good games!

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  26. mr jeffy

     /  November 16, 2021

    the games is good but can you get a new game

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  27. Dally

     /  November 13, 2021

    How do you walk up the walls in poetry cat?
    I would like to know.

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    • Sophia

       /  December 13, 2021

      It depends if you play on computer/PC or mobile, if computer you hold the farthest to the right and the up.

      Reply
    • khole

       /  March 22, 2022

      you just need to go to them and hit the up button

      Reply
  28. mr jeffy

     /  October 29, 2021

    hi i love the game

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  29. Haylee

     /  October 26, 2021

    amazing ideas folks, but Mr.Morton sir you should make a FNaF type game.

    Reply
  30. olivia

     /  October 25, 2021

    Oh these games are so fun

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  31. matilda

     /  October 19, 2021

    super fantastic teaching games can we download it or share it to our google classrooms

    Reply
  32. james west

     /  October 19, 2021

    maybe you should hav a voucabulary game.

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  33. Abigail

     /  October 13, 2021

    The game was good. I was a little stressful a times but I enjoyed it a lot. I would recommend it for eight and up depending on you learning level. It was a good review game.

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  34. Lilly

     /  September 15, 2021

    great games! i like the idea of a game with more power ups.But also how about a game that you buy some power ups so kids bet and answer questions more so it will encourage them!

    Reply
  35. Shana Campbell

     /  August 27, 2021

    Do you have a plan to make a game about tone? I find that students struggle with it a lot, and having a game would help them practice it without it feeling monotonous.

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  36. Koustubh

     /  July 13, 2021

    This is a very nice English game

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  37. Harmy

     /  June 15, 2021

    if this game was a movie, it would get a Grammy, just sayin’

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  38. denny

     /  June 7, 2021

    the level 40 -50 on the climber is so hard, took me five whole days to do each one 🙁

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  39. denny

     /  May 20, 2021

    i kinda like the poetry cat of the special teleportation blocks, how bout even more blocks like that in the tank game, if you are goin to make it.

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  40. denny

     /  May 20, 2021

    i kinda like the poetry cat of the special teleportation blocks, how bout even more blocks like that in the tank game, (if you are goin to make it)

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    • Thanks for all the great ideas!

      I am looking forward to making a new game or even finishing one of the ones that I’ve been working on ;p

      Maybe this summer!
      Thank you for playing.

      Reply
  41. denny

     /  May 20, 2021

    oh yeah, how about a tank game? with upgrades, like you can get points, upgrade into four branches, then some more branches once you get even more points, just like diep io, if you don’t now, check it out! a pretty good game, oh yeah, i’m thinking a platformer type game. oh, please don’t make it slippery, (always stress me out) i’m a coder too 😉 (a starter one.)

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  42. denny

     /  May 20, 2021

    hmmm… can you tell me how hard it gets? like… for the fish, and the cat, the second time it gets harder, the third time even harder, but how many times? ps (i can only get to the third one, too hard :P)

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    • I tried to make the games get harder as you play through them again.

      If you’ve played through it twice, I don’t think it gets harder. If it does, it’s probably pretty crazy.

      Never played through them more than once myself.

      Congratulations!

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      • denny

         /  May 22, 2021

        oh yeah, and also, i only got to the third one on orpues, and the cat (the third one has spear throwers once the first level start 😛 kinda impossble,

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        • denny

           /  May 22, 2021

          boy the plane one is hard, you literely just cant do anything when one of the bosses just spam, and also, the trakers that follows you is also kinda broken,

          O O

          \_________________/

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  43. ashley sako

     /  May 19, 2021

    in the unicorn game use your space bar to kill the things

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  44. denny

     /  May 17, 2021

    i love your games, beat every single one of them
    C: how about a game with a tons of power ups, like the Orpheus, but with even more power ups, or how about a diep.io style game? i would love that 😀

    Reply
  45. PaytonCainYT

     /  April 27, 2021

    can you make a type of thats kinda like FNF?
    different levels, if you lose a level you have to answer questions to contine or something? i dont know… just trying to roccemend games

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  46. Lily

     /  April 11, 2021

    I love this website but needs more games

    Reply
  47. Ambear

     /  March 5, 2021

    I wonder if they are able to make an MHA game, it’s a really good anime I’ve been watching, I recommend it, it’s really good.

    Reply
  48. Andrew

     /  January 21, 2021

    i love the games do you think you can make one where you have to dodge falling rocks?

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  49. Ms. H

     /  January 10, 2021

    I can’t wait for my kids to play Orpheus. They’ll love it and I’ll love that they’ll get practice. Thank you for creating this!

    Reply
  50. kamal

     /  January 3, 2021

    Thanks a million for the tremendous fruitful resources you supply to teachers and parents. Massive!!

    Reply

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