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Sound Makers

A delightful video interactive about musical instruments and the science behind how they make sounds.

5-7 year olds
Pupils

Stimulus Sounds

Five episodes encouraging listening skills for pre-school children with fun sound discrimination games.

3-5 year olds
Teachers, Parents

Sound Sayer

A teaching tool to support whole-class or small groups with phonics teaching. It can support parents too when they are helping their child with reading at home.

5-7 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

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

Sounds and Actions

A useful demonstration on YouTube of the phonics sounds and actions from a teacher using the Jolly Phonics scheme.

5-6 year olds
Teachers

Seeing with Sound

Explore questions about sound properties and how sound travels as a wave through diagrams and simulations. For example, identify the effects of compression waves on the vibration speed of particles.

11-14 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

FindSounds

A safe search engine for finding sound effects and musical instruments.

5-16 year olds
Teachers

Grumpy Goats

A fun game to explore the sound 'g'. Choose the pictures that begin with 'g' and simple words that begin with 'g'.

3-5 year olds
Pupils

Balloon Phonics

Balloon Phonics is a game which focuses on three letter words (cvc). There are three game modes: Initial sounds, Middle sounds and End sounds. Appropriate for Phase 2 Letters and Sounds.

4-6 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Phonics Bloom

Phonics Bloom create interactive online phonics games to help teach children the relationship between letters and sounds and develop the skills needed to read and write.

3-7 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents
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