Intrepica : A high-quality play-based literacy resource with more than 10,000 activities online for children of all ages and ability. Children and parents can select from activities focusing on pre-reading skills, phonics, reading, spelling, vocabulary, grammar and comprehension in a fun, exciting and safe online environment. Users progress through progressively harder tests and earning trophies and coins for completing games which they can then “spend” dressing their avatar up in outfits and costumes!
What makes Intrepica special?
- Incentive-based learning.
- Credits awarded for every exercise.
- A safe online world of visually rich activities.
- Children learn and have fun at the same time.
You can access Intrepica and many other useful electronic resources from home with your library card number and PIN, or at our community libraries.
Don’t forget our other new kids electronic resource, TumblebookLibrary is an online collection of Tumblebooks – animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they’ll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.
Get amongst these free resources for library members.
8 June 2010 at 4:15 pm
Confession time: as part of the wee team that had a play with this database before the library bought it, I am COMPLETELY enamoured of this site. It’s fun, kid- (and adult-) friendly, and completely addictive. Grab your kids and go try it out now; and if you don’t have kids, borrow some as a cover.
15 June 2010 at 10:14 am
Who do I ask in the Library about cost and subscription details (I’m a librarian; its been suggested we subscribe and I’m looking for background)
Ta
15 June 2010 at 10:41 am
Hi Leslie, I am forwarding your query to our database team.
15 June 2010 at 12:26 pm
Thanks. Anything to get my daughters out of Poptropica, Club Penguin or the new one with a panda they’ve just found.
15 June 2010 at 12:49 pm
I love Club Penguin!
15 June 2010 at 1:39 pm
So do the girls, quite intensely, but none of the penguins are as wise as Bagpuss, even the Master with the white beard in the Dojo.