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Learning to Read

  • Collage of 4 plastic easter egg activities for learning letters and number skills with young kids. Text overlay reads Number and Letter Activities with Plastic Easter Eggs
  • Bear Stays up for Christmas Montessori Inspired 3 Part Cards and some simple activity suggestions to use them with your preschoolers
  • Image shows a set of a cards with pictures of the Nativity story printed on them. Including Mary, Joseph and the Donkey, there are words under each picture which tell the store of the Nativity. The text on the image reads Nativity Story Sequencing Cards
  • New junior Star Wars novels inspiring reading and connecting the generations as we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of A New Hope.
  • Top tips for summer slide prevention in school children with ideas for reading and connecting with books over the summer break from school.
  • Frog Themed hopping phonics game for children learning to read. Download and print these free resources to help children to blend and read words.
  • Simple to set up real vs nonsense words phonics activity ideal for helping children to apply phonic knowledge & hands-on preparation for Year 1 phonics test
  • Read along with A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket as it shows on Netflix this Winter. A great way to connect with the kids on long winter nights
  • Fun download and make dinosaur themed high-frequency words game for supporting children to learn to read. Play 1 player or 2 players with full instructions.
  • Create your own storytelling props for the classic Kindergarten tale of The Enormous Carrot by Vladmir Vagin and help children with reading comprehension.
  • Help children to learn to read by segmenting and blending together words using letter sounds and our fun hands on Word Family Houses
  • This summer get outdoors, get messy and go on your own interactive My Messy Adventure with some favourite Roald Dahl Charcters, Quentin Blake Illustrations and Persil Small & Mighty
  • Learning to read the days of the week with The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • Rocket Landings word family game for blending beginning sounds and common endings - FREE Printable
  • Matching pairs literacy game - inspired by Margaret Wise Brown's Book The Runaway Bunny
  • Sight Word Game for the book Rainbow Fish
  • Sight Word Skittles Game
  • Simple aid for learning to read that you can make with your child

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