English & Reading

Love Reading!

Introducing your children to books is a great way to support your childrens literacy whether it is reading to them or listening to them read.

There are some great ebooks and games to play on the Oxford Owls website.  Log ins are inside your child's homework book.

 http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/

Parents can also download documents below which give more information on the Read Write Inc programme, grammar in writing and support on helping your child learn to read. 

Useful websites to support phonics and reading at home

Lots of different phonic games on this website:

http://www.ictgames.com/literacy.html

Long vowel sounds poems

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/poems/fpoem.shtml

Bbc sandcastle spelling patterns

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/sandcastle/flash/game.shtml

Spelling pattern – spotting the sound

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/postcard/flash/game.shtml

Lists of words for each sound – same order as RWI

http://www.ictgames.com/phonemePatterns/index.html

Sentences activity – choose sound

http://www.ictgames.com/chuteShuffle/index.html

Tricky words phase 2

http://www.iboard.co.uk/iwb/Phase-2-Tricky-Words-Bus-747

TES tricky word activities

http://www.iboard.co.uk/activities/path/word-work_high-frequency-words

Letter formation

https://hwb.wales.gov.uk/cms/hwbcontent/Shared%20Documents/VTC/ngfl/ngfl-flash/alphabet-eng/alphabet.htm

Reading books – need to register

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/

Files to Download