Ziptales Ziptales is an online literacy library filled with stories, lessons, and fun activities. It offers teaching and learning tools for students and teachers at all levels of the elementary school. Ziptales was created by teachers to enhance children’s reading and writing skills. It offers a ‘blended’ learning solution to the challenge of literacy.
When children can read, even at a “beginner” level, the key task is to keep them motivated and excited by the desire to read. Ziptales is proven to make reading an enjoyable experience, and to raise skill levels.
Ziptales is built on the concept of genres – that is, stories with a wide range of different styles. It offers cartoons, puppet plays, graphic novels, adventure, animal stories, comedy, fairy tales, fantasy, mystery, myths, people stories, scary stories, true stories and even ‘yucky’ stories. All tastes and needs are catered for.
Ziptales offers over 600 modules of educational content, separated into 3 branches of educational levels:
- Pre – K (Literacy)
- Developing (Literacy K – 2)
- Extending (Literacy 3 – 6)