Eight well–loved nursery rhymes engage young children in a mix of rhythm, rhyme, songs, games and fact pages. Each nursery rhyme contains the following activities: Sing with me – Follow the animated rhyme as it is sung.

Picture play – Explore the content of the different animations, discovering all sorts of quirky nursery rhyme secrets. Play and learn – Play interactive games to explore the language and numeracy learning opportunities provided by each rhyme.

Find out about – Discover a treasure trove of interactive non-fiction games and activities tailored to each rhyme.

These attractive pictures, animations and catchy songs offer an enjoyable, multisensory approach to teaching letter sounds and letter shapes at the same time. There is a song and picture for every letter of the alphabet. The engaging activities provide flexible support for any phonics scheme encouraging children to want to practise letter sounds repeatedly.

Children attentively listen and watch how letters are formed or interactively repeat letter sounds, sing the songs and create their own letter shapes

hese games develop listening skills which are vital for early language development. Children choose to visit the seaside, the country, the street or the park, As they go on a listening walk they discover familiar and new sounds by interacting with the scene.

These sounds are then incorporated in animated song with real sound effects. Further games offer children the challenge of identifying sounds and creating simple three sounds stories.

Ideal for developing pre-reading skills. See the picture and spot the right final sound fish to complete the word. You can find all sorts of creatures in rock pools, but our letter fish are pretty special! With their help, children can learn more about the nature of final sounds in CVC words. Choose a fish swimming in the rock pool and give it a tap. If it’s the correct final sound, watch the fish leap into the smaller pool to complete the word.

Have fun moving the trio of crabs across the screen to practise pre-reading skills. Try to catch the correct vowel pebble to complete three letter CVC word to match the picture. Dancing crabs and a soaring seagull make learning about medial sounds lots of fun! Children combine audio and visual recognition skills plus fine motor skills to successfully catch the correct letter-sound pebble to complete the given word.

See the object on the log, hear its name, then arrange the letter pebbles to build the word. Watch the tide sweep in and bring a new picture log with it. A collection of CVC words are randomly selected to challenge children. Players are rewarded when the word list is complete.

Ideal for developing pre-reading skills. See the picture and spot the right final sound fish to complete the word. You can find all sorts of creatures in rock pools, but our letter fish are pretty special! With their help, children can learn more about the nature of final sounds in CVC words. Choose a fish swimming in the rock pool and give it a tap. If it’s the correct final sound, watch the fish leap into the smaller pool to complete the word

Initial Sound Bubbles games develop children’s confidence as they use early phonics skills and match letters to words. The interactive activities are appealing and fun to play. Players are challenged to match the initial letter sound on a pebble and find the four word pictures to match. Games can be played with or without audio. An animated reward appears when all four are correct with no errors. All letters of the alphabet are covered.

Find the Rhyme app is an exciting challenge for children developing key literacy skills. These interactive games, set on the beach, encourage listening and develop rhyming skills. The game mission is to find rhyming pairs. Children choose word picture pebbles to match a rhyming word picture bucket. With audio turned on children hear the words or a harder challenge is to play with sound turned off.

Recognizing and remembering the different forms that a letter can take increases children’s awareness as they see them in other contexts and begin to use them in their early writing. This is a simple, engaging pelmanism game. Select a pair of letter stones, hear their name and sound and watch them to see if they match. If a pair is found, they remain face up. If not, they turn back over. When a game is over, a new set of pebbles appears with letters selected randomly. Teachers choose what matching takes place: uppercase to lowercase, lowercase to lowercase or uppercase to uppercase.