Blending Bingo
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.
Magic Verbs
Choose a better verb to make the sentences more interesting. The characters are animated to match the verbs. The game is lends itself well to starter or plenary sessions displayed on an interactive whiteboard.
Dropping In
A great sentence exercise which can help you to write interesting sentences.
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.
Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock
An animated story of Anansi with support materials. The story is in two parts.
Sentence Samurai
This resource demonstrates how sentences can be elaborated to be more interesting.
The Full Stop Game
Here some sentences have lost their full stops. Read the sentences then drag and drop the three snails to where the full stop should be. High frequency words are used in the sentences.
The Apostrophe with the Big Appetite
A super demonstration that children will love, of how apostrophes replace missing letters in contractions from Spelling Play.
Starfall Art Gallery
A delightful site for Key Stage 1 pupils about six famous artists and their work. It also promotes reading skills. There are literacy exercises. A good non-fiction text. More detailed biographies for Key Stage 2 pupils.
Kids and Reading
KidsAndReading contains over 50 articles which focus on encouraging and helping children to read. Find out about different learning styles, classroom methods and problems which can arise with reading.
