Reception English
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Literacy
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For parents and teachers
Reception English learning
Pick a topic to find the games available at this level. These activities offer selected practice, not complete curriculum coverage. Use your school’s teaching sequence and your child’s confidence to choose a starting point.
Curriculum connections
Grouped by topic, with the games that offer practice. Each game covers selected examples; use your school’s teaching sequence to choose suitable words and skills.
Reading
Word reading
Curriculum focus
Early learning goal: Read words consistent with their phonic knowledge by sound-blending
Practise with:
- Hear it and read it — Listen to a short word like sat or fish, then find the written word in this free Reception phonics game.
- Read and match — Sound out cat, dog and sun, then match each word to its picture in this free Reception reading game.
Comprehension
Curriculum focus
Early learning goal: Demonstrate understanding of what has been read to them by retelling stories and narratives using their own words and recently introduced vocabulary
Practise with:
- Put the story in order — Retell Goldilocks, the Three Little Pigs and other traditional tales by putting the pictures in order in this free Reception game.
Curriculum focus
Early learning goal: Anticipate – where appropriate – key events in stories
Practise with:
- What happens next? — The wolf huffs and puffs… what happens next?
Writing
Curriculum focus
Early learning goal: Spell words by identifying sounds in them and representing the sounds with a letter or letters
Practise with:
- First sounds — Listen to a word and find the letter for its first sound, from s for sun to sh for ship, in this free Reception phonics game.
- Last sounds — Listen to a word and find the letter or letters for its last sound, like t in cat, in this free Reception phonics game.