An interactive site which asks what the first sound is of various objects which can be selected first by teachers or parents.

The site demonstrates letter formation of all the letters of the alphabet. Listen to their names and the sounds they make. Each letter is illustrated with a picture which begins with the sound.

A sorting game aimed at helping p, b, d confusion.

This site can help children to learn the names, sounds and formation of letters of the alphabet. Being an American site it has the American pronunication of Z

A matching sounds game.

A word matching game designed round tricky words from Phase 2 of 'Letters and Sounds'.

A game where children match pictures with sounds. It focuses on initial sounds.

Children have a choice of nine pictures. They need to identify which one begins with each of the letter sounds.

A good learning to read site. There are good quality games and animated stories which children can interact with. The children can click on words to see what they say. Excellent for learning the sounds the letters make.

A wordmaking activity demonstrating how onsets and rimes go together into the wordmaking machine. Suitable for able foundation pupils.

A good phonics teaching tool for demonstrating cvcs. Drag and drop cvcs into the wordmaking machine.