Home Learning Website Links - English

Here are some websites that you may want to visit to help with your home learning. These links are all designed to support learning in phonics, reading and writing. Please remember your e-safety rules when visiting these websites (especially on YouTube)!

Mixed English Areas:

• BBC bitesize - English
• ABCYA - Word games
• English games ICT games
• Woodlands Literacy Zone

Phonics:

• YouTube - Letters and Sounds
• Phonics Play Username: jan21 Password: home
• Phonics bloom - phonic games
• Phonics with Mr T YouTube
• Alphablocks on YouTube
• Topmarks English - Letters and sounds games
• Alphablocks on cbeebies
• Phonics and Stuff Website

Reading:

• Accelerated Reader Ask your teacher for your username and password
• Bedford Borough virtual library
• Audible - Stories to listen to for free
• World book day - World of stories
• Storyline Online - Stories read aloud
• Julia Donaldson on iPlayer
• 11am story - David Walliams
• Oliver Jeffers - A book a day
• Oxford Owl - free ebooks for children
• Oxford Owl - free ebooks for children 2
• Teach your monster to read
• Harper Collins reading books
• Storytime online links
• Twinkl You will need to create an account for this

Writing (Including SPaG):

• Dropping In - Sentence writing game
• Pobble 365 - A new writing challenge each day!
• Once upon a picture - Images to inspire writing
• Punctuation games Top marks English
• Grammar games
• Espresso - Grammar and Punctuation KS1 Username: student4307 Password: espresso

YouTube videos

Here are some of our favourite phonic songs and videos. Please remember your e-safety rules when using YouTube.

• Phase 2 sounds to read
• Phase 3 sounds to read
• Phase 5 sounds to read
• Jolly phonics 42 letter sound songs
• Long vowel mix song - 5 in one video
• Jack Hartmann - digraph song
• Digraph rap
• Digraph rap 2
• Digraph rap 3
• This is the digraph song so sing along-long-long
• Phase 3 digraphs
• Digraphs: WH, SH, TH, PH, CH | Phonics Song for Kids
• Jack Hartmann - what is a blend?
• The double letter vowel song
• Digraphs Mix - Th/th, wh, ch/sh, ph (4 videos)
• Phonics Compilation | Common Digraph Sounds Compilation | Scratch Garden
• High frequency words to read
• The tricky word rap - phase 2
• Tricky words and sight words song
• Phase 3 tricky words song - say hello
• Phase 4 tricky word song
• Tricky Words Sight Words Song for I, go, to, no, is, the

YouTube channels

Here are some of our favourite phonic songs and videos. Please remember your e-safety rules when using YouTube.

• Letters and Sounds
• Mr T's Phonics and Geraldine the Giraffe
• Twinkl - phonics
• Alphablocks
• Sounder and Friends
• English4abc - phonic songs
• Thrass UK
• Mr Spelling

Spellings – Tricky words and common exception words

Here are some spellings to work on at home. 

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• Year 1 - Lavender