Learning Letters and Words through Play Activities

Help your child to learn letters and words through play activities with this guide for parents by Topmarks.

3-7 year olds

Parents

Addition and Subtraction Facts

This is a brilliant animated resource for demonstrating addition and subtraction facts to 20. Super for number bonds and missing numbers.

4-7 year olds

Teachers, Pupils

Counting Caterpillar

Order numbers along a branch. You can select the minimum and maximum numbers. Lends itself well to an interactive whiteboard.

5-11 year olds

Pupils

Place Value Chart

A useful teaching tool to demonstrate place value in numbers up to millions. It includes an option for decimal numbers.

7-11 year olds

Teachers

Build a Fraction

Challenge yourself to build fractions from shapes and numbers. It helps with the concepts of equivalent fractions and mixed numbers.

9-11 year olds

Pupils

Ssssssnake Hotel

A great blog with lots of fabulous teaching ideas for reading/writing/performing poetry.

7-11 year olds

Teachers

Phonics Songs

Catchy animated phonics songs for both revising and teaching letter-sounds from Teaching Your Monster to Read.

4-5 year olds

Teachers, Parents

Short Vowel Word Machines

Can you read the three letter (CVC) words on these animated word machines?

4-5 year olds

Pupils

Jack and the Beanstalk

Listen to or read the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Excellent animation.

3-5 year olds

Pupils

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

Read along or watch with signing this animated, rhyming story of Hairy Maclary.

4-7 year olds

Pupils