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PHONICS GAMES

Some of the games are linked to specific sounds. You can swap the sound and words in the games to match the phase your child is working on. Click on the circles below to download word banks to use.

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Reception

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Reception

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Reception

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Year 1

Phonics Guide

Find out how your child is getting on with phonics.

Phonics Tracker

Tick off the sounds and words your child knows, then take a screenshot of the sounds/words to practice list.

What is Phonics?

Your child will do daily phonics sessions when they start school.

Phonemes and graphemes

How to remember which one is which...

Pure Sounds

What are they and why are they important?

Sound Guide

Video guides showing how to pronounce the phonemes (sounds) clearly without adding the 'uh' sound.

What is Blending?

This is the technique used to help children with reading.

Phonics Wordsearch

Find the sounds or words in the grid.

Blending Slide

A visual way to work on blending skills if your child finds it tricky. Video and printable included.

Pokémon Phonics

Spot digraphs and get blending while you look for Pokémon!

Hungry Hippos

Add a phonics twist to this classic game.

What are Tricky Words?

What makes a tricky word tricky?

How to read tricky words

Find out how heart word cards make tricky words easy!

5 Flashcard Games

5 quick and easy games to play with your flashcards. Link to printable flashcards included.

Magnetic Tiles

Magnetic tiles are a-maze-ing for phonics!

BAM

A quick and fun way to learn sounds and tricky words.

Lucky Guess

Practice reading and writing sounds.

Tricky Word Envelope

Who will be the first to identify the hidden word?

Invisible Ink Tricky Words

Shine the torch to reveal the tricky words.

One Minute Flip

A race to see how many sounds and words you know!

Countdown

Grab your flashcards and a timer for this quick paced game.

50 50

Will you guess correctly? A game to reinforce sounds and words.

Up the Stairs

Will you play the active version or the bedtime version?

Cheerio Tic Tac Toe

A breakfast twist on a class game!

Moon Dust

Head to the moon and see what sounds and words you discover!

What is segmenting?

This is the technique used to help children with spelling.

Using syllables

This is a helpful way to approach longer words in your child's spelling list.

Spelling Without a Pencil

Bored of school spelling lists? Here's 10 ways to practice spellings without picking up a pencil!

Dino Dig Week

A week of dinosaur themed spelling activities. Includes printables.

Shark Week

A week of shark themed spelling activities. Includes printables.

Rainbow Week

Grab some coloured crayons and get ready for a week of rainbow spelling activities.

Duplo Week

Use the Duplo shelf throughout the week to help your child work on their spellings.

Mixed Up Letters

A great way to practice spellings without a pencil.

Magnetic Tile Spelling Patterns

Writing on magnetic tiles is a great way to help your child spot patterns in words.

Chalkboard Tablecloth

Fit spelling around mealtimes with this chalkboard tablecloth!

Chocolate Week

A delicious week of exploring sound lines to help your child with spelling.

Chocolate Coins

A yummy way to practise spellings!

Pit Stop

Make pit stops to collect the letters you need to spell the word.

Sandy Spellings

Stamping words in sand to help your child practice spelling.

Spelling Eggs

A cracking way to practice spellings!

Race to Build the Word

Create DIY cardboard letter tiles and race to find the ones you need to spell your word.

Duplo Spellings

Use Duplo, Lego or toilet roll towers to practice spelling words!

s - silly stir fry!

Introduce a new letter and explore initial sounds in this pretend cooking game.

a - abracadabra!

Perform the magic trick to sort the objects by their initial sound.

t - travelling teddy

Sort the objects by their initial sound to help teddy pack his suitcase.

p - letters in the post

Open the letters and work on blending and segmenting skills.

i - what's inside the egg?

Discover what's inside the eggs and practise blending and spelling skills.

n - tin can alley

Warm up with a dice game to practise sounds then spell words and have fun knocking them down!

m - moon dust

Head to the moon to look for letters and words in this space mission!

d - dino stomp

Stomp across the sound buttons to help read the word.

Tricky Word - to

Read it, use it, play it, spell it!

Tricky Word - into

Read it, use it, play it, spell it!

j - jump and blend

A fun and active reading game - jump along the letters as you sound them out.

v - revving engines

3, 2, 1, grab some toy cards and let's go!

w - walking on webs

Weave your way across the web to spell the words.

y - yes or no game

Guess the answer before reading the question! Printable yes or no questions included.

ch - choc sound lines

Use chocolate sound buttons and lines for this yummy blending activity.

ng - ping-pong sounds

A fun and active way to practise sounds, reading and spelling.

ai - follow the trail

Follow the snail trails to read the words.

ee - what can you see?

Make a giant wordsearch or use the printable version that's included.

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