Starfall - Learn to Read
A good learning to read site. There are good quality games and animated stories which children can interact with. The children can click on words to see what they say. Excellent for learning the sounds the letters make.
Oh No, George!
Read along with this amusing story of George the dog who wants to be good but finds it very difficult.
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.
Open Very Carefully
Be careful reading this book. It is a book with a bite!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Christmas
How much do you know about Christmas? Here we aim to help you discover the festive facts and background to Christmas traditions. Ideas for Christmas Cards and Christmas activities.
Mostly Postie
Can you read scales? Then try this read the scales game which includes weights in grams and kilograms.