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    Many reading games can be found online. You can find them yourself (see the page on Search Engines in the Web chapter), or go to the Net Links listed below.

    Beware in searching for games online of downloads required for the games.
    Because the internet is a web, though your search may start at an educational or nonprofit site, there often are links to commercial sites from these sites, so don't assume you stay in a site maintained by the same folks when you click on a link!
    Portals try to gather together information in one place. (See the glossary entry on 'portal'). Sometimes portals point to each other in circular ways and you wonder if you are ever going to get to content!
    Because the internet is a web, there is not one controlling source. So, you may click on a link that used to point to something interesting that is no longer there. This effect is sometimes called the World Wide Cobweb...
    It's True! It takes time and expense to do a good game, and if it's free, often the price is looking at ads.

    Tip You might want to limit your search to .edu and .org domains (that is sites that end in .edu which are educational institutions, or .org, which are not for profits). (See the glossary entry on 'domain'.)



    Net Links
    A whole collection of nicely categorized reading games.
    This site has discrete advertizing and no popups and both vocabulary and alphabet games that are pretty good.
    This site is a portal that organizes many different game sites. The portal is heavy on sound and animation, but some of the sites linked to are very good. Some have the annoying popups and some require downloading special software, so be careful.
    There are some good games here, but things may be a little slow and there are those annoying popups...
    Some geography quizzes with plenty of reading at about the 3-5 grade level.

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