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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

Points of View Newspaper Report

Witnesses to accidents can see different things. Read and listen to two witness reports of a skateboarding accident, and learn about how journalists structure newspaper reports and use verbs, adverbial phrases and pronouns to create an effect.

7-11 year olds
Pupils

Creepy Verbs and Adverbs in Super Stories

Transform a boring horror story into a bestseller by selecting effective verbs and adverbs to increase its impact and make it more exciting. Select illustrations that highlight the horror as the story of the Sea Cave unfolds.

7-11 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

Spell Block Academy

A fun spelling game with a wizard theme. Use the provided words or create your own spelling list of words in the Spells book.

5-9 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

Wonderful Words, Creative Stories about Space

improve two simple sentences by adding descriptive words. Observe how your choices affect the animated images. Use your sentences as inspiration for a story about space. A good site for demonstrating how to write more interesting sentences.

7-9 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

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

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
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