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This site provides educational ICT activites linked to the English National Curriculum. The games were once maintained under the Toftwood site. Instead all new games will be added here. All games are designed, made by and © copyright 2005 of James Barrett. These games are generally targeted at infant school teachers and parents of infant age children.

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New games:


Tell A T-Rex Tell A T-Rex Reading for understanding.
Writing Runway Writing Runway An adult writes a sentence and the children place it on the runway.
Blending Dragon Blending Dragon Direct the dragon and catch the real words, (uses PIPs stages 5 and 6).
Ladybird Lander Ladybird Lander An adult directed resource for blending sounds, (uses PIPs stages 3 and 4).
Blending Bingo Blending Bingo An adult directed resource, (equivalent to PIPs stages 4, 5 aspects of 6/7).

   
NUMERACY GAMES
LITERACY GAMES

Literacy Games
Objective:
Apply phonic knowl;edge as prime approach to reading new and unfamiliar words.



Rhyming Rockets

Rhyming Rockets

Read your rhyme and then shoot the rhyming rockets.
Objective:
Reading for understanding.



Tell A T-Rex

Tell A T-Rex

Read the silly question and then answer yes or no.
Objective:
To support phoneme recognition.

Sound groups from 'Playing With Sounds'.




Phoneme Pop

Phoneme Pop

Sound groups taken from 'Playing With Sounds', e.g. group1 "s,m,c,t,g,p,a,o".

If this activity runs slowly on your machine, righ-click and selelct 'quality' and then 'medium'.

Objective:
To support blending when reading.



cvc Pop

cvc Pop

Select a medial vowel and pop the your target bubbles.

If this activity runs slowly on your machine, righ-click and selelct 'quality' and then 'medium'.

Objective:
To support phoneme recognition.

Sound groups from 'Playing With Sounds'.




Sound Bingo

Sound Bingo
A bingo activity using bingo cards downloaded from here:

Right-click on this link and select "Save Target As'. Then print the pdf bingo cards.

Sound groups taken from 'Playing With Sounds', e.g. group1 "s,m,c,t,g,p,a,o".

Objective:
To support blending phonemes when reading.



Blending Bingo

Blending Bingo
A bingo activity using bingo cards downloaded from here:

Right-click on this link and select "Save Target As'. Then print the pdf bingo cards.
Objective:
To support blending phonemes when reading.



Letters & Sounds Bingo

Letters & Sounds Bingo
A bingo activity using bingo cards downloaded from here:

Right-click on this link and select "Save Target As'. Then print the pdf bingo cards.
Objective:
Identify initial, medial and final phonemes in CVC and CCVC words.



Ladybird Lander

Ladybird Lander
Think of a CVC or CCVC word and ask the children to identify the phonemes. Select sounds by clicking on the ladybirds letter sounds and then on the flowers.

NB: Does not offer digraphs, trigraphs or vowel phonemes.
Objective: Y1: To write simple sentences.
To read on sight familiar words.
ICT: To use a word bank to support writing.



Writing Runway

Writing Runway
Directed mainly at Year One. The adult enters the target sentence. Read the sentence with the children and then press the blue button.

Then ask the children to make the same sentence using the word bank.

Objective: Blend phonemes to decode a word.



Blending Dragon

Blending Dragon
Directed mainly at Year One. Direct your dragon with the mouse and catch the globes with real words. Uses Progression In Phonics steps.
Objective: Initial letter sound recognition.



Letter Lifter

Letter Lifter
A game for foundation stage children. Spot the starting sound for the things on the conveyor belt.
Objective: Correct letter formation.



Sky Writer

Sky Writer
A demonstration tool for letter formation.

Try putting you finger in the air and follow the Sky Writer.

Objective: Consonant - vowel - consonant spelling patterns.



3 Letter House

3 Letter House
A whole class teaching tool useful for identifying real cvc words.
Objective: Read and spell words which use a common spelling pattern.



DJ Cows Spelling Patterns

DJ Cows Spelling Patterns
Choose a spelling pattern and DJ Cow will make a wordsearch for it. .

A wordsearch that is focussed on common spelling patterns that you choose.

Objective: Read and spell Year One and Two high frequency words.



Spelling Ship

Spelling Ship
Read and spell Year One and Two high frequency words.

A cross betwen Hangman and LCWC.

Objective: Read and spell Year One and Two high frequency words.



YR Spelling Ship

YR Words Spelling Ship
Read and spell Reception Year high frequency words.

A cross betwen Hangman and LCWC.

Objective: Read and spell initial consonant clusters.



Cluster Buster

Cluster Buster
Read and spell initial consonant clusters.
This game runs through 26 of the initial consonant clusters that children will working around the time of Years 1 and 2.
Objective: Words to be taught as 'sight recognition' through YR to Y2.



Word Reader

Word Reader
Listen to the word and choose which flower has that word underneath it.
This game runs through 37 of the easier Year 1 and 2 high frequency words.
Objective: Recognise letters of the alphabet and initial letter sounds of words.



Phonic Fighter

Phonic Fighter
Aliens are stealing the letters of the alphabet, you have to recognise what sound they make and click on the objects that begin with that sound.
Objective: Words to be taught as 'sight recognition' through YR to Y2.



Look Cover Write Check

Look, Cover,
Write, Check
A game simulating the 'look cover write check' technique for improving spelling.

Adapted with kind permission from an idea by Mark Robinson.

Objective: Words to be taught as 'sight recognition' through YR to Y2.



Dinosaur Eggs

Dinosaur Eggs
A reading game dealing with the harder year 1 and 2 words.

Listen to the voice and choose the egg that shows that word. If you get it wrong you miss out on getting a leaf, so get it right first time!

Reading Machine, (CVC words).

at / it rhymes.

Other Curriculum Areas
Dress the Knight in a suit of armour.

The Planets.

The body. New Version.

Captain Scott.

Identify objects that use electricity.

Label parts of a flowering plant.

 


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