CBeebies
Fun, games and colouring from children's BBC. Young children will recognise their favourite characters. The games are great fun and they can help your child learn.
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.
Focus on Phonics
Are you baffled by what 'phonics' means? Here are frequently asked questions with answers which can help you to understand what they are and how they are used to help your child to learn to read. You can listen to the hear the sounds the letters make too.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
An animated story of the traditional story of the Three Bears. There is a sequencing activity to print out to go with the story.
ChildTasticBooks
A superb blog with great reviews of children's books. Well worth delving into if you are looking for ideas for books for your child or class.
Ali and the Magic Carpet
Follow Ali on his magic carpet journey to different parts of the world! A delightful animated story.
Sounds and Actions
A useful demonstration on YouTube of the phonics sounds and actions from a teacher using the Jolly Phonics scheme.
Rhyme Time from Sesame Street
A charming early years game which is great for introducing the idea of rhyming. Children need to find words which rhyme with a given word.
Stimulus Sounds
Five episodes encouraging listening skills for pre-school children with fun sound discrimination games.
