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Map Reading Skills for Children

Top ideas and tips on how to promote children's interest in reading maps. It includes free downloadable activity cards.

7-11 year olds
Teachers, 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.

3-7 year olds
Parents

Filled to Capacity

Compare the volume of different liquids and find the difference by reading the scales on the cylinders.

7-9 year olds
Pupils

Capacity Countdown

A game by ICT games where you need to read the volumes on the scales in ml and l.

6-9 year olds
Pupils

Oh No, George!

Read along with this amusing story of George the dog who wants to be good but finds it very difficult.

3-5 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Temperature

Learn to read a thermometer. Useful for getting to grips with reading lots of different scales. Also work out the difference in temperature between two thermometers.

6-11 year olds
Teachers, 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

Epic

Epic is a digital reading platform for children up to the age of 12. It has a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books from 250+ of the world’s best publishers. A subscription site.

3-12 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Open Very Carefully

Be careful reading this book. It is a book with a bite!

3-5 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

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
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