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BookTrust

BookTrust is the UK's largest children's reading charity and they provide free books, resources and support to promote reading. Well worth a visit.

0-14 year olds
Teachers, Parents

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.

5-6 year olds
Pupils

Google Slides

Create presentations with Google Slides. Also lends itself to collaborative work and making ebooks.

7-18 year olds
Pupils

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

Jack and the Beanstalk

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

3-5 year olds
Pupils

Teach Your Monster to Read

A free game for young children to practise the first steps of reading. The game is built on the principles of synthetic phonics and follows the teaching sequence of the Letters and Sounds programme.

5-7 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Aesop's Fables

Forty of Aesop's best-known fables are brought to life in adaptations for children. Each story is five minutes long and read by an all-star cast including Brenda Blethyn, Richard E Grant, Jane Horrocks and Alison Steadman.

5-9 year olds
Pupils

Missing Pop Star Puzzle

Work out what happened to the missing celebrity and write a newspaper article about the event. Lots of tips on improving your writing style.

9-11 year olds
Pupils

Amazing Words

Amazing Words is all about prepositions. It explains what prepositions are and includes activities where you can identify the prepositions in sentences.

9-11 year olds
Pupils

Poetry

Search the CLPE extensive bank of poems for children, poetry teaching resources, videos of poet performances and interviews to support the teaching of poetry.

7-11 year olds
Pupils
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