Fundamental Development

For schools, districts and homeschool groups

Early reading and math that children actually practice

Six research-based learning games for pre-K through first grade. Students practice sight words, early math, science, typing and story comprehension in short sessions, with hints instead of penalties. Everything runs in the browser on Chromebooks and iPads, with no student accounts and no personal data.

What students practice

Each game teaches one skill in the order the research lays out, checks it, and brings back what a child found hard. The standards each game supports are listed with it.

Sight Word Safari K–1

90 high-frequency words, including all 40 Dolch pre-primer words and most of the primer list, each taught sound by sound and then read in phrases, sentences and short stories. Before each mission, hearing the sounds in words (syllables, rhyme, middle sounds); after it, reading new words and made-up ones from the sounds learned.

Common Core: RF.K.2a · RF.K.2b · RF.K.2d · RF.K.3a · RF.K.3b · RF.K.3c · RF.K.4

Counting Cove K

Counting and how many, comparing groups, adding and taking away within 10, number bonds, teen numbers, shapes and positions.

Common Core: K.CC.B.4 · K.CC.B.5 · K.CC.C.6 · K.OA.A.1 · K.OA.A.2 · K.OA.A.3 · K.NBT.A.1 · K.G.A.1 · K.G.A.2

Hoot’s Discovery Lab K

Living and non-living things, what plants and animals need, weather and seasons, floating and sinking, how things grow.

NGSS: K-LS1-1 · K-ESS2-1

Story Castle K

Six stories and a fact book read aloud, then questions about who, where and what happened, a new word from each book, the problem and how it got fixed, telling the story back in order, how the characters felt, and catching a sentence that doesn't make sense.

Common Core: RL.K.1 · RL.K.2 · RL.K.3 · RL.K.4 · RI.K.1 · L.K.5c · SL.K.2

Dino Keys K–1

Finding upper- and lowercase letters on the keyboard, the home row and the space bar, then typing first words. Works with a real keyboard or the one on screen.

Common Core: RF.K.1d · keyboarding readiness

Pebble Pond Pre-K

First numbers for ages 2 and 3: seeing one, two and three at a glance, giving a number, matching, more and fewer, and shapes. Made to play with an adult.

Early numeracy

Codes are from the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards. Each game’s grown-up corner explains what it is practicing and why.

Built for real classrooms

Nothing to install

Open a link on any Chromebook, iPad or laptop and play. One web address to allow on your network. Students can add it to the Home Screen for a full-screen app.

Private by design

No student accounts, names or emails. Progress stays on the device. No ads, analytics or trackers in the games. The microphone stays off unless an adult turns it on.

Every child can play

Every spoken line is also shown as text. No timers, no lives, no losing. Large tap targets, a reduced-motion setting, and checked with automated WCAG 2 A and AA tests.

Teaches, then checks

A skill is modeled before it is asked for, a miss gets a hint and another try, and what a child found hard comes back in later sessions.

Licenses

Classroom

One teacher’s class, on the devices you already have.

School

Every classroom in a building, under one agreement.

District

Every school in the district, with one point of contact.

Homeschool groups

Co-ops and learning pods, with a Family Pass for every member family.

Priced by the number of students. Ask about a pilot for your classroom first.

Request a quote or a pilot

Tell us a little about your students and we’ll reply within two school days.

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Questions

Do students need accounts?

No. Students open the game and play; progress is kept on the device. Sight Word Safari keeps up to six readers per device, each with their own progress. Tell us about your setup, one-to-one or shared devices, and we’ll plan the pilot around it.

What data do you collect?

Nothing personal from students. The games keep progress in the browser, with an optional backup that holds no names. From you, only what you send in this form, to reply. The privacy page has the details.

Will it work on our devices and network?

Any current browser on ChromeOS, iPadOS, Windows or macOS. Everything loads from one web address, so there is one site to allow. Once a level has loaded, it keeps working when the Wi-Fi drops.

Can you sign our data privacy agreement?

Send it with your request and we’ll review it with you.

Has it been reviewed by educators?

The games follow published reading and early-math research, and each grown-up corner explains its choices. An educator review of the word lists is the next step, and pilot classrooms help shape it.