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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

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

Fizzy Funny Fuzzy Poetry for Kids

Funny poems for children on lots of different subjects. The author is Gareth Lancaster. You can print out the poems and email them to a friend if you want.

7-14 year olds
Pupils

Spooky Sounds

Children will love this game where they need to identify the phonemes which match sounds. This game is linked to the Letters and Sounds programme.

4-6 year olds
Pupils

Sighties

A delightful game where you find the sight words. This game is based on the first 100 high frequency words used in reading and writing.

5-7 year olds
Pupils

Subtracting with Regrouping Lesson

This lesson explains how to work out column subtraction of three-digit numbers using regrouping or borrowing.

7-11 year olds
Pupils

Words for Life

Words for Life’s aim is to inspire more people to read, more regularly, for both pleasure and personal advancement. Useful booklists especially chosen to appeal to less confident readers. Free resources matched to books.

3-11 year olds
Parents

PhonicsPlay.co.uk

Phonics reading games linked to the 'Letters and Sounds' programme in England. Some are free on this subscription site.

5-7 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
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