Words roll down the belt, drop each into the bin that matches its vowel sound before the line backs up.
Words ride in from the left on a conveyor. Send the front-most word to the bin whose vowel sound it matches, short-a, long-i and so on. Correct sorts score, and the sound of the day is worth double. A wrong bin jams the line, and any word that slides off the end costs a life.
Rabbit Reads turns vowel-sound phonics into a fast sorting arcade, training the ear-to-letter mapping that early reading depends on.
Sorting words by their vowel sound — short-a, long-i — is the core discrimination of phonics, and the reason English reading instruction is hard: the same letter spells several sounds and the same sound is spelled several ways.
A conveyor that jams on a wrong bin is the original pressure.
Sorting by sound rather than by spelling is the whole point of the exercise. A learner who sorts by the letter on the page will get have and gave wrong, and a jammed line makes that error visible immediately rather than at the end of a score screen.
Rabbit Reads is an original free browser game built for PlayPendium that turns vowel-sound phonics into a fast conveyor-belt sorting arcade. Play free in your browser, no sign-up.