Kids online education resources - reading

Today while at the linux.conf.au education miniconf someone (sorry not sure of name) asked about the availability of kids reading software for Linux. Sure there is software for making sounds and learning letters and numbers (Gcompris, Childsplay, KHangman, Linux Letters and Numbers, Tux Math, Tux Typing and more) but as of yet, there is not much in the way of software to teach kids basic reading skills.

Lucky for Linux users and people who have access to the internet (broadband even better) there are a number of online options. Just tonight I had a quick poke around and found a few sites I thought were appropriate for kids learning English in Australia:

• http://www.starfall.com This one has excellent online reading material.
• http://vocabulary.co.il/ This is vocabulary based stuff but still useful all the same.
  
• http://teacher.scholastic.com Click student activities and search for reading. A number of results will appear.

Perhaps people can add to the list of sites above or can recommend appropriate software for Linux users. Fantastic stuff if you are thinking of starting up a software project in this area.