The Literacy Shed
The Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources with teaching ideas suitable for use in the primary classroom. There are some fabulous animations to use as stimulus for writing.
Coconut Vowels
A fun spelling game where you need to think quickly or it's game over. Fill in the gaps in the words to make a real words. There are different levels of difficulty. For teachers' information the game focuses on vowel digraphs.
Sled Dog Dash
Fun missions which will challenge children's listening and reading skills. The user's challenge is to help two children complete missions by using non-fiction texts as a guide. There are several adventures to choose from.
Gingerbread Man Game
Counting and sequencing games where you can learn your numbers to 10. Works well on an interactive whiteboard.
Small Town Superheroes
18 mini games to help you with your Key Stage 1 English skills such as suffixes and prefixes, punctuation and making sentences.
Shape Patterns
Shape Patterns is a shapes sequencing game. Complete the pattern of different coloured 2D shapes. There are three levels of difficulty.
Mental Maths Train
Mental Maths Train is a maths game which focuses on the essential vocabulary of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. A multiple choice game which can give children confidence in the four arithmetic operations.
Rocket Rounding
A multiple choice game involving rounding numbers to ten, a hundred and to a whole number. There are two options, one with a number line and the other more difficult level, without one.
Phoneme Pop
Based on 'Letters and Sounds' this game supports phoneme - grapheme correspondence. Great if your child is learning his or her letter sounds.
Elmo's World Games
Have fun exploring Elmo's World where there are lots of activities for you to try. Some games are useful for learning early shapes.
