Free teacher web sites for Foundation Stage topic ‘Communication Lang and Lit’

Hear the letter sounds, names and see the letters being formed. An excellent website.

External link: Alphabet

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Ordering words in alphabetical order.

External link: Alphabetical order

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The Swan story, In the Autumn, Sebastian's Waddle, Pond web, Sebastian's Rhyme, Guess Who and the Lost Cygnet are the stories that you can choose from this magical collection.

External link: Animal story books

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Books to download include; Information Around Us, Muddy Time, Bluebell Time, Harvest Time, Where Do Hedgehogs Go?, Little Red Engine and Little Red Engine - narrated.

External link: Big books

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Click through the index to find stories and support for the following; Blue Cow Goes to the Olympic Games, Dick Whittington 1002 Arabian Nights, Balamory Weather Story,Don't Wake the Baby, Beauty and the Beast, The Cat and the Mouse, The Enormous Turnip, The Billy Goats Gruff, Cinderella, , Goodnight Song, Growing Up, It's Not Fair, The Flower Fairy Story, Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Fox and the Crocodile, The Frog Prince, Jingle Jungle Monkey, Georgina the Giraffe, I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed, The Gingerbread Man, I Want to Play Music Too, The Kicking Bird, No Place Like Home, A Midsummer Night's Dream, One Colour Day, The King of the Birds, Our House, The Lion and the Mouse, The Moon and the Rabbit, The Painted Jackal, The Shop of Colours, The Three Bears, The Painting Elves, The Three Bears and the New Baby, Sinbad, The Three Little Pigs, Sleeping Beauty, Princess Long Ago, Snow White, Rapunzel, Starship Tweenies, The Sun and the Wind, Tommy Zoom & the Litter Trail, Rumplestiltskin, Super Baby, Tweenies Seaside Safety Story, The Ugly Duckling, Where's My Hat? The White Elephant, Woolly the Super Sheep, We Close Our Eyes, Wishing Upon a Star.

External link: Cbeebies stories

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Stories include; Emily Elizabeth goes to school, Here Clifford, Clifford's big dig and Where is Emily? Activities include; Concentration, sound match, letter match and make a word. This will support phonics - spoken with an American accent.

External link: Clifford website

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Match up the picture to the word - for example a box is show - children are given the option of "box, bed and cat"

External link: CVC match up

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Create cvc words and also make a given word using onset and rhyme. Styled like a fruit machine - this is fairly addictive (if you're 5 years old of course).

External link: CVC word generator

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Create by painting, your very own gingerbread man. What a shame you can't eat it after all that hard work!

External link: Design your own gingerbread man

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Images of objects that end in l, ch, sh etc. A great resource to promote discussion.

External link: Final letter sound

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Looking slightly aged now, this drop down menu quiz will test if they know what letter comes at the end of words like cot. They have multiple choices.

External link: Final letter sound quiz

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Demonstrates how to form each letter. This only works in Internet explorer - can the screen re-sizes - which all seems a little dated. But even so - we put up with it because it's a great resource.

External link: Form letters

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Walk the plank and guess the letters in a mysterious word. Like a hangman style game - this version gives you multiple choices of the mystery word.

External link: Guess the word game

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A very simple game which you could use as a continuous provision activity with adult support. Great for the foundation stage.

External link: Handas surprise slider puzzle game

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Paint and drag the characters onto the scene. Super.

External link: Humpty Dumpty modelling and paint

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Click on the cat - for example - and the letter "C" is displayed. Great.

External link: Initial letter sounds

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The last thing you'd want to do if you stumbled across a group of hungry bears in the woods is to stick labels on them, but that's exactly what you can do with this great resource.

External link: Label the teddy bear's picnic

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This little game encourages children to learn the names of letters.

External link: Learn letter names

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Create letter cards and move them around the page. Seriously open ended. You'll never have to ask the children to find the lost "b" out of the pack of cards again. Joy.

External link: Letter card generator

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Click on the letter charts on the wall, lots of fun activities to develop mouse control and experience the names and sounds of letters.

External link: Letter names and sounds

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Click on an object and it will magically transform. Nice one for EAL children or as part of an activity to describe objects. Lovely!

External link: Magic tricks description

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You are given an alphabet and (lower case option) click on the letters to hear the sounds. The phonics are based on a southern accent - so watch out when using this resource north of watford gap.

External link: Match letters to phonics (letter sounds)

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One arm bandit time - match the word to picture. A great Spark Island game.

External link: Match the picture to the cvc word

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Matching and memory games are all here at the Dr Seuss website.

External link: Matching games

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Teddy Bears' picnic resource encourages matching of letters.

External link: Matching letters and cases

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Another great power point with images to support teaching of phonics.

External link: Medial (middle) letter sound

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Select the middle letter sound from a list. Good quiz for phonics work.

External link: Middle letter sound quiz

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This generator produces pre-writing and early writing support sheets. Learners must over-write and copy a number of shapes and line patterns.

External link: Printable handwriting sheets

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Writes all the Reception high frequency words in stars. Can be used to record letter formations an play them back. Wonderful resource to support handwriting.

External link: Star writer

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A lovely image of all the timbuctoo animals. Perhaps useful when describing characters?

External link: Timbuctoo animals

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Add words or phonemes to the tree - useful because you type in the words which are appropriate to your lesson.

External link: Word tree

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