Teaching Syllables
A YouTube video of a teacher showing a clever method of using your whole body to figure out how many syllables or beats are in a word.
Num Tanga Junior
Match the pairs which could be numerals, numbers as words, ten frames, base ten or fingers on hands. There are different levels the highest of which goes up to 20.
The Vile Vendor Probability Game
The Vending Machine gives vile drinks such as Cabbage, Smelly Sock or Fresh Fish. You need to work out the likelihood of getting each flavour and choose a matching probability word: impossible, unlikely, equal, likely or certain.
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.
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.
Spellingframe
A spelling game with some free spellings taken from the spelling curriculum in England. Each word is read aloud, included in a sentence and broken into syllables.
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.
The Full Stop Game
Here some sentences have lost their full stops. Read the sentences then drag and drop the three snails to where the full stop should be. High frequency words are used in the sentences.
Alphabetical Order
A basic drag and drop sorting words into alphabetical order game.
National Education Union
The NEU provides information for teachers on employment rights or help with problems such as workload, bullying or accidents at work, NEU members have access to a wealth of expertise.
