Symmetry Sorting
Sort the pictures, shapes and letters into symmetrical and not symmetrical sets.
Short Vowel Word Machines
Can you read the three letter (CVC) words on these animated word machines?
Alphabetical Ordering
This is a game for practising ordering words into the order they appear in the alphabet. The 6 levels extend from using the first letter of the words, to ordering words where the fourth letter determines the order.
Phonics Songs
Catchy animated phonics songs for both revising and teaching letter-sounds from Teaching Your Monster to Read.
The Apostrophe with the Big Appetite
A super demonstration that children will love, of how apostrophes replace missing letters in contractions from Spelling Play.
GCSE Bitesize Revision - English
Taking GCSE English? Here are some useful aids to revision. The site looks at a wide variety of aspects such as composing essays, to work on set texts. There is a section on Standard Grade English if you are in Scotland.
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.
Rhymeville
Visit the mice, Hickory and Dickory, in the wonderful village of Rhymeville! Discover popular nursery rhymes and practise key literacy skills for EYFS such as letter recognition and word reading.
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.
Help a Hedgehog
A super read the word challenge game which can help you with learning to read. Read as many words as you can that are matched to Letters and Sounds Phases 2 and 3 or enter your own words.The game helps with decoding and blending words skills.
