WordWorld

Starfall's Learn to Read with phonics Literacy, Foundation Doorway First Sounds An interactive site which asks what the first sound is of various objects which can be selected first by teachers or parents. English Alphabet The site demonstrates letter formation of all the letters of the alphabet. Listen to their names and the sounds they make. Fishing Bowl A sorting game aimed at helping p, b, d confusion. Letter Formation This site can help children to learn the names, sounds and formation of letters of the alphabet. Listen and Match A matching sounds game. Phase 2 Tricky Word Bus A word matching game designed round tricky words from Phase 2 of 'Letters and Sounds'. The Painting Game A game where children match pictures with sounds. Nine Squares Children have a choice of nine pictures. Starfall - Learn to Read A good learning to read site. Wordmaker 1 A wordmaking activity demonstrating how onsets and rimes go together into the wordmaking machine. Wordmaker 2 A good phonics teaching tool for demonstrating cvcs.

Phonics games Phonics games will help your child to practise sounding out words, which will help them to read. Initially, children will learn basic letter sounds, such as "c-a-t" for "cat". Later they will move on to sounds such as "th", "sh" and "ch", then "oo", "oa" and so on. Follow the links below to the free phonics games. Click for free printable phonics resources to support the DfES Letters and Sounds scheme. Another skill which phonics games can help with is being able to recognise the sounds that a spoken word is made up of, which will help them when it comes to writing and spelling.