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From phonics, phonemes and graphemes there's plenty here to support the foundation of all things English language based. Great literacy resources for the foundation stage.
Alphabet
Visit nowHear the letter sounds, names and see the letters being formed. An excellent website.
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Animal story books
Visit nowThe 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.
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Big books
Visit nowBooks to download include; Information Around Us, Muddy Time, Bluebell Time, Harvest Time, Where Do Hedgehogs Go?, Little Red Engine and Little Red Engine - narrated.
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Cbeebies stories
Visit nowClick 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.
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Clifford website
Visit nowStories 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.
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CVC match up
Visit nowMatch up the picture to the word - for example a box is show - children are given the option of "box, bed and cat"
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CVC word generator
Visit nowCreate 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).
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Design your own gingerbread man
Visit nowCreate by painting, your very own gingerbread man. What a shame you can't eat it after all that hard work!
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Final letter sound
Visit nowImages of objects that end in l, ch, sh etc. A great resource to promote discussion.
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Final letter sound quiz
Visit nowLooking 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.
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Form letters
Visit nowDemonstrates 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.
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Guess the word game
Visit nowWalk 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.
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Handas surprise slider puzzle game
Visit nowA very simple game which you could use as a continuous provision activity with adult support. Great for the foundation stage.
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Humpty Dumpty modelling and paint
Visit nowPaint and drag the characters onto the scene. Super.
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Initial letter sounds
Visit nowClick on the cat - for example - and the letter "C" is displayed. Great.
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Label the teddy bear's picnic
Visit nowThe 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.
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Learn letter names
Visit nowThis little game encourages children to learn the names of letters.
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Letter card generator
Visit nowCreate 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.
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Letter names and sounds
Visit nowClick on the letter charts on the wall, lots of fun activities to develop mouse control and experience the names and sounds of letters.
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Letters and sounds activities
Visit nowDesigned to supplement the UK Government?s Letters and Sounds (Phase One) ?Teeny Reading Seeds? provides the perfect springboard from which to get children up and started with literacy skills before they start mainstream education. Includes super pdf for letter displays and games. Suitable for teaching phonics at KS2 and KS1 also.
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Match letters to phonics (letter sounds)
Visit nowYou 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.
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Middle letter sound quiz
Visit nowSelect the middle letter sound from a list. Good quiz for phonics work.
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Printable handwriting sheets
Visit nowThis generator produces pre-writing and early writing support sheets. Learners must over-write and copy a number of shapes and line patterns.
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Word tree
Visit nowAdd words or phonemes to the tree - useful because you type in the words which are appropriate to your lesson.
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