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.
Bookstart
Bookstart is a UK programme which encourages parents and carers to enjoy books with children. Find out about free packs of books and download colourful songsheets which have songs and rhymes to share with your child.
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.
Final Letters
A game where you need to find words with the same two letters at the end. See if you can find the words with the same ending sounds.
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.
Learning Numbers Through Play
Help your child learn numbers through play activities with this guide for parents by Topmarks.
Ten Frame - 1 to 20
A simple ten frame manipulative which shows either one or two ten frames and counters. You can display either horizontal or vertical ten frames.
Sounds and Actions
A useful demonstration on YouTube of the phonics sounds and actions from a teacher using the Jolly Phonics scheme.
Brushing up on Animals
Discover techniques for drawing animals and painting an artwork. An inspirational workshop!
To Kill a Mockingbird Study Guide
A literacture study guide which examines the plot summary and analysis, themes, quotes, characters and more.