Resources

Our favourite useful resources and free downloads to help you support your child at home.

Beacon Reading Grapheme Chart - a free two page chart laying out the 45 sounds and the graphemes (letters) used to spell them. Learn these and you are well on your way to being able to read or spell anything!

Useful Links

Scratch Garden - fantastic songs and animated videos, especially the “Vowel Teams” videos and the long and short vowels video.

Phonics Play - lots of free interactive games that practice specific letters and sounds.

MrT Does Phonics - Engaging, funny and consistently clear explanations on these well-loved videos all about phonics.