Key Stage 1 Literacy - BBC Bitesize

BBC Bitesize - Literacy games for Key Stage 1 (Ages 5-7, years 1-2)

As you would expect from the BBC, a really useful set of interactive games designed to support your 5-7 year old in their literacy education.

These 9 games cover synonyms, punctuation, sentence construction, phonics, rhyming, alphabetical order, spelling, pronouns and conjunctions. Most of the games feature pirates or cowboys or some kid on activity (e.g. Kung-Fu to help construct sentences!) so particularly appealing to my boys.

I particularly like the fact the easiest level is labelled "medium" - psychologically, my 6 year old feels he's really achieved something to do the medium level. Lots of feedback means the child understands their progress, but this is one set of games that probably benefits from working with an adult to help explain the instructions and maintain focus. A good one to include with any home reward system - complete the hard level to earn a treat for example.