Letters and Sounds Games

Welcome to our literacy games hub for 5 to 7 year olds! This page features fun, interactive activities that support early reading and writing. Children can explore phonics, recognise phoneme patterns, practice forming letters, and engage with the Letters and Sounds framework.

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.

Phase 2 Phonics

The 16 Learner Guides support children learning Phase 2 of the Letters and Sounds phonics programme. The fun videos help children to see letter sounds in words. It supports correct letter formation too.

Phase 3 Phonics

Twenty-seven short videos to support Phase 3 phonics from the Letters and Sounds programme.

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.

Short Vowel Word Machines

Can you read the three letter (CVC) words on these animated word machines?

Starfall - Learn to Read

This site can help you to learn to read. There are good quality games and animated stories. You can click on words to see what they say. This site can help you to learn the sounds that letters make.

Suffix Factory

Designed to meet requirements of Phase 6 Letters and Sounds, this game covers doubling final consonants, dropping final e and changing final y when adding ed, er and ful.

Letter Planet

Fill up the rocket with fuel by choosing the words that have 'sh', 'ch' or 'th' in them.

When Two Vowels Go Walking

The song in the video explains the rule: "When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking." Words that appear include: boat, meat, train, pail, rain, brain, soap, say, neat, beat, dream, pain, and plain.