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Support your child at home with these online phonics activities.
This page contains games, activities and other internet resources to support your child in learning phonics at home. Learning phonics helps your child become a competent and confident reader.
get reading right The Get Reading Right website- games, teaching resources and lots of information about the way phonics and reading are taught.

www.getreadingright.co.uk/
get reading right What are synthetic phonics? Follow the links to discover how and why we teach phonics

http://www.getreadingright.co.uk/synthetic-phonics/


ngfl cymru There are 44 phonemes, or sounds, in the English language. Every letter has a name and a sound, for example h is called aitch and makes a whispered huh sound.The NGFL Cymru website has the correct letter names and letter sounds on it for you to listen to. Click on individual letters on the interactive alphabet to listen to the correct letter sounds for yourself.

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/ngfl-flash/alphabet-eng/alphabet.htm



(Please note that we do not form our letters in the way demonstrated on this website when we are writing at Ravenstonedale School.)

spellits The BBC Schools Spellit website is  designed for 7 - 11 year olds. This website offers interactive online activities and printable resources which teach spelling strategies, rules and patterns for Years 3, 4, 5 and 6.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/ad_menu_flash.shtml
coxhoe primary Coxhoe Primary School have an excellent phonics page on their school website. Follow the links to view their content for yourself.

http://www.schooljotter.com/showpage.php?id=55481
words and pics2 The Whirly Word Machine  , BBC Words and Pictures.

Play with making 3 letter (CVC) words

Level 1- Spin the first reel and make a new word. Is this a real word or not?
Level 2 - Spin the first or the last reel and try to make words that are real.
Level 3 - Spin any reel. Can you make words that fit each challenge?
At the end of your game you can print all your words and keep them.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/cvc/whirl/game.shtml
words and pics2 Year 2 phonics practise- The Sandcastle Game, BBC
Words and Pictures

There are 10 different vowel phoneme options to choose from when playing the Sandcastle Quiz. 9 of them cover an individual phoneme and its spelling variations and the 10th covers all of them. They are listed below:-

OW - ow/ou (howl, house)
OY - oy/oi (boy,join)
AR - ar/a/al (star,grass,calm)
DEEP U - oo/u (foot,put)
AIR - air/are/ear (lair, spare, tear)
OR - or/ore/oar/war (short, core,roar,ward)
AW - aw/au/augh/al (yawn,august, caught, chalk)
IR - ir/ur/er (stir, nurse, nerve)
EAR - ear/eer/ere (fear, cheer, mere)


http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/sandcastle/flash/fsgame.shtml
words and pics2

Year 2 phonics practise- Write a postcard, BBC Words and Pictures

Each postcard covers an individual vowel phoneme and one postcard covers them all. The options are:-

OW - ow/ou (howl, house)
OY - oy/oi (boy,join)
AR - ar/a/al (star,grass,calm)
DEEP U - oo/u (foot,put)
AIR - air/are/ear (lair, spare, tear)
OR - or/ore/oar/war (short, core,roar,ward)
AW - aw/au/augh/al (yawn,august, caught, chalk)
IR - ir/ur/er (stir, nurse, nerve)
EAR - ear/eer/ere (fear, cheer, mere)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/postcard/flash/fsgame.shtml
words and pics2 Word Blender, BBC Words and Pictures

Practise initial clusters-  sc sk sl sn sm sp st sw
Practise final clusters- ck ff ll ss
Use the control panel to set the phonemes you wish to practise.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/clusters/blender/gamefs.shtml


words and pics2 Poems for Long vowel sounds, BBC Words and Pictures

Ten colourful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends.
Long vowel sounds- ee ai ea oa ay a-e oo y igh i-e

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/poems/fpoem.shtml
words and pics2 Snap it!, BBC Words and Pictures

Test yourself on how well you know your long vowel sounds with this game.
Learning (-ee-,-ea-,-ay-,-ai,-y-,-igh-,-oa-,-oo-)

Look carefully at the cards to see if they match. When you see a pair click Snap! But don't get Snap happy - if you get it wrong, you lose a point. Use the slow/fast slider to increase the challenge. Faster is harder but you get more Snaps!


http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/snap/snap.shtml
words and pics2 Drag 'n' Spell, BBC Words and pictures

Drag a vowel sound into the slot to spell the word correctly. Use the slow/fast slider to increase the challenge.
 
Level Learning (-ee-,-ea-,-ay-,-ai,-y-,-igh-,-oa-,-oo-)
Level 1  Use a picture clue to spell words 
Level 2  Use a word clue to spell words 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/spelling/spelling.shtml

words and pics2 Star Words, BBC Words and Pictures

Practise the words we are learning to read on-sight in Key Stage 1.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/hfwords/starwords/gamefs.shtml
alphablocks Alphablocks, CBeebies

Different sounds feature in the different games. Turn the wheel and find the sound you are working on.

Jay j letter name and sounds. Make CVC words beginning with j. Ph3
Mountain Vowel sounds and names. Change the vovels to make different CVC words b-g.
A-Z Letter sounds A-Z, Listen to them all, choose individual alphablocks to hear their sounds again and then see if you can make your own quiz and get them all correct.
Balloon X Making CVC words sa-. Ph3
Microphone b and d. Adding vowel sounds to b-nd.  Ph3/ 4
Drums Adding letters to -ab. CVC and letter sound revision. Battle of the Bands!
Key ck in words. Make --ck words. Ph2
Moon  oo sound, making -oo- words, Ph3
Boat ai in words -ai- Ph 3
Bee ee in words Ph3 No game.
Musical note adding -s to words. No game.
Space Rocket silent -e in words. Making CVC words with s p a c e
Bus words with s  t o p
Teapot CVC words -a-. Ph 2
Treasure Map CVCC words ra-- pt ft ps mp. Ph4
Blue Footprints ch sh th Ph3 No Game
Comet f and ff, owl (owl) and ow (glow). No game
Straw Hat aeiou and y, Words with no vowels in them.
Chequered Banner general sounds revision and making CVC words
Fox Use all the letters of the alphabet to make simple words
UFO Vowel letter names, vowel blends ou oi ai
Trophy Cup ea in words. How many words can you make using ea together and m t s?
Little Red Alphapet q needs u to make a word.
Binoculars Revision of the three different e seounds- /e/ /ee/ magic-e
Cloud z and zz
Top Hat Introducing magic e




http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/atoz/#/lb/alphablocks/alphablocksgames
starship english Word Balloons, BBC Starship English

Match words that mean almost the same thing- synonyms. Year 2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/wordballoons.shtml
 
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