Sight Words
Free resources designed to help parents teach their child to read. The learning materials can be used in the home or classroom. Includes lessons and instructional videos. Well worth a look!
Sounds and Actions
A useful demonstration on YouTube of the phonics sounds and actions from a teacher using the Jolly Phonics scheme.
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.
BBC Bitesize English Key Stage 1
Video clips on Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar, Reading and Writing, Speaking and Listening and Types of Text.
Coconut Vowels
A fun spelling game where you need to think quickly or it's game over. Fill in the gaps in the words to make a real words. There are different levels of difficulty. For teachers' information the game focuses on vowel digraphs.
Phoneme Pop
Based on 'Letters and Sounds' this game supports phoneme - grapheme correspondence. Great if your child is learning his or her letter sounds.
KS2 French
A BBC site with French skills, phonics, songs, stories and a game.
The Qur'an
A series of blended learning resources containing interactive self-study content covering Islamic core beliefs.
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.
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.
