Helping your child with their learning at home.
You can use your child’s log in for TTRockstars and Spelling Shed to practice their times tables and weekly spellings. Please ask your child's teacher for a reminder of their log in if you need to.
Reading
Hearing your child read at home will help too but children who are finding this tricky, may need a slightly different approach. Below there are 3 different apporaches which are recommended by the Specialist Teaching Team. These can build up your child’s reading confidence, accuracy and fluency. The PDF documents below give 'how to' guides for each approach.
Paired Reading - reading aloud with an adult, increases confidence and reduces fear of reading and allows the reading of text which would be too difficult for the child to read alone.
Timed Repeated Reading - improves reading rate to aid comprehension
Prepared Reading encourages reading enjoyment and increeases confidence with reading.
Online Games
There are many free online learning games which can help your child to practice and consolidate basic skills.
Maths
Hit the Button - Games which allow practice of doubles and halves, multiplication and division facts, number bonds and square numbers.
Top Marks Maths - A vareity of maths games with different levels which practice the four main operations of addition, subtraction mulitplication and division but also time, measures, odering numbers, shape and money.
Primary Games - more maths games for a variety of different skills.
English
Top Marks English - links to reading and spelling games and websites.
General Resources.
BBC Bitesize - A website providing english and maths support but also many other subjects such as Science and History.
BBC Dance Mat - A free platform to help your child to learn to touch type. This is especially useful if your child begins to use alternative means of recording such as a laptop.
Primary Homework Help - This is an amazing site which covers all areas of the curriculum. If your child is asked to research anything or they would like to look up information about the topic they are studying in school. this can be helpful to use as pre-learning as well which will increase your chil'd confidence in the classroom.
Specialist Teaching Team (STT) Recommended Resources.
The school pays for the services of the STT. Staff training and specific assessments are accessed. These assessments often recommend certain resources for different difficulties, below are some of the games and websites recommended. Some of these do have costs attached to them.
Hairy Reading This is a paid website. A precursor to Nessy Reading and Spelling for young children, building on phonics, tricky words and letter sounds.
Nessy Reading and Spelling – This is a paid website. It has a variety of games and activities which are recommended for children showing dyslexic traits. Learning opportunities that are good for dyslexia are also good for every learner.
Physical Resources and Games
There are many different games which you can buy and play at home for various different outcomes.
Spelling
Spelligator - A word building game that teaches phonemic awareness, letter patterns and positioning. It covers different letter combinations, including consonants, vowels, digraphs, and blends. The player who makes the most words is the winner!
Strike! - A card game played like 'Uno' but using CVC words that have the reversible consonants b, p. d, g, m and n in their spelling.
Ideas for Writing
Story Cubes - Throw the dice, and create a story starting with “Once upon a time…” using the nine symbols on the faces of the dice. Then, follow your imagination! This game encourages story telling and can help to build vocabulary, sentence structure and stretch the imagination.
Problem Solving
The Happy Puzzle Company – Offers a range of over 300 award-winning puzzles, games, challenges and puzzle books to families and schools. These can help to practice problem solving and Non-verbal reasoning skills. Non-verbal reasoning is a difficulty with the understanding of visual information and the ability to solve problems using reasoning and logical thinking skills. This may impact on mathematical performance and reading comprehension skills, where inference is needed.
Also to develop non-verbal reasoning skills, the Dobble Card Game and Spot The Difference apps/puzzle books can be useful. Matching, spot the difference, spatial concept games using various free apps and/or puzzle books including mazes.