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Literacy

Learning to Blend - Read Write Inc. videos supporting the blending skill

Name the Pictures - RWI initial sound practice

Special Friends - RWI Set 1 digraph spotting

Tricky Red Words - RWI review of tricky words across the Reception year

Longer Words - RWI segmenting, blending and reading of longer words 

PhonicsPlay – Interactive games for Phase 1–6. Brilliant for blending, segmenting, tricky words, and speed sounds.

BBC Bitesize Phonics – Short videos and simple games to practise reading and spelling skills.

Teach Your Monster to Read – A popular early reading game (free on a computer; paid app on tablets). Covers initial sounds through simple sentences.

TopMarks Early Reading – A mix of phonics, tricky word and alphabet games.

CBeebies Alphablocks – Short, engaging episodes that model blending and segmenting. 

Epic! Library – A huge digital library full of high-quality picture books, read-alouds and non-fiction texts.

YouTube

Alphabet Phonics Song

Initial Sounds Alphabet Song

The Reading Machine 

Tricky Words Song

Red (Tricky) Words Song

Blending Song