Letters and Sounds Games
Welcome to our literacy games hub for 5 to 7 year olds! This page features fun, interactive activities that support early reading and writing. Children can explore phonics, recognise phoneme patterns, practice forming letters, and engage with the Letters and Sounds framework.
Balloon Phonics
Balloon Phonics is a game which focuses on three letter words (cvc). There are three game modes: Initial sounds, Middle sounds and End sounds. Appropriate for Phase 2 Letters and Sounds.
Phase 2 Phonics
The 16 Learner Guides support children learning Phase 2 of the Letters and Sounds phonics programme. The fun videos help children to see letter sounds in words. It supports correct letter formation too.
Phase 3 Phonics
Twenty-seven short videos to support Phase 3 phonics from the Letters and Sounds programme.
Help a Hedgehog
A super read the word challenge game. You have 90 seconds to read as many words as you can. The words are matched to Letters and Sounds Phases 2 and 3 or you can enter your own words.The game helps decoding and blending words.
Short Vowel Word Machines
Can you read the three letter (CVC) words on these animated word machines?
Starfall - Learn to Read
This site can help you to learn to read. There are good quality games and animated stories. You can click on words to see what they say. This site can help you to learn the sounds that letters make.
Suffix Factory
Designed to meet requirements of Phase 6 Letters and Sounds, this game covers doubling final consonants, dropping final e and changing final y when adding ed, er and ful.
Letter Planet
Fill up the rocket with fuel by choosing the words that have 'sh', 'ch' or 'th' in them.
When Two Vowels Go Walking
The song in the video explains the rule: "When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking." Words that appear include: boat, meat, train, pail, rain, brain, soap, say, neat, beat, dream, pain, and plain.
Spooky Sounds
A subscription site game that children will love. They need to identify the phonemes which match sounds. This game is linked to the Letters and Sounds programme.
Sound Sayer
A subscription site teaching tool to support whole-class or small groups with phonics teaching. It can support parents too when they are helping their child with reading at home.
Sky Writer
A subscription site handwriting demonstration tool which demonstrates correct letter formation. It works well as a whole class activity on an interactive whiteboard or in a group situation on a tablet. It includes a cursive writing option.
Viking Full Circle
This is a subscription game where you launch the Viking ship by completing the spellings in this Full Circle game. It is linked to the Letters and Sounds phonics programme, Phases 2 and 3.
Poop Deck Pirates
A subscription phonics game which can help you to build words. Read the words and decide if they are real words or not. The game links to phases 3, 4 and 5 of the 'Letters and Sounds' programme. It works well on an interactive whiteboard.
Phoneme Patterns
A subscription site for quickly finding readable words associated with YR, Y1 and Y2 phonemes from Letters & Sounds in this sound buttons and phoneme family resource.
Forest Phonics
This subscription site called Forest Phonics is a spelling game where you can select the phonemes you want to focus on.
Blending Bingo
This is a subscription site. Play Bingo in a class situation or just use on an individual basis to practise your blending skills. The words match those in Letters and Sounds.
