Phonics is the teaching and learning of letters and sounds and it will support your child when they are learning to read and write. It is incredibly important that you encourage your child to fill in their Phoneme Book each night to support their learning at school.

Here are a few links to fun games that you can play at home.

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html – sort the real words from the nonsense words

http://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/literacy/firstsounds/ – listen carefully to the first sounds of the words

http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-initial-sound-game-1.html – a pairs game. Match the initial sound to the correct picture

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html – choose the initial sounds game to practise your phonics skills

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/SentSubPhase3.html – play this sentence substitution game. Make a real sentence or just have some fun with making up your own silly sentences

http://www.ictgames.com/dinosaursEggs/ – play this dinosaur game to learn your high frequency words. Listen to the word and click on the correct dinosaur egg

For more ideas or resources please don’t hesitate to ask.