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Free, unlimited access to selected games and teaching ideas across several phases where you can play as many times as you like! The site is packed with interactive phonics games, phonics planning, assessment ideas and many teaching ideas and resources to help children to learn. Access comprehensive lesson plans and teaching resources as well as further information, help and guidance for parents.
Phonics Play comics are short (2 sides of A4), simple, silly comics that can be used to help children apply the skills that they have learned in daily phonics sessions. They follow the learning sequence from the Letters and Sounds document and feature some characters that many children will be familiar with from www.phonicsplay.co.uk alongside some brand new characters. The comics can be printed out as pdfs or simply viewed online. They should be viewable on most devices but will obviously be easier for children to read (without having to do too much zooming and scrolling) on larger screens.
Pablo uses his magic crayons to turn his life challenges into fantastic adventures and his feelings into colourful characters with a voice – in the art of his imagination, just about anything can happen!
SEN Teacher is amongst the oldest teaching resource sites and has over 300,000 regular users. Our learning materials are free to share and use in schools or at home. The Print tools on SEN Teacher allow you to create, adapt and share teaching resources for a wide-range of abilities. No login or registration is required to use SEN Teacher.
GoNoodle® engages 14 million kids every month with movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts. Available for free at school, home, and everywhere kids are!
Games that motivate, entertain and educate! SEN Assist was created by Adele Devine a SEN teacher and her Artist/Designer husband (Quentin), whilst working together with adults with learning difficulties in America. The site has a wide range of literacy, schedule, behaviour and social resources.
Over the past 15 years, ABC Creative Music has developed innovative cost-effective Nursery, Primary & ASN/SEN music programmes, delivered on interactive whiteboards and/or resource packs with highly successful training programmes for non-specialist teachers.
HelpKidzLearn is a collection of software for young children and those with learning difficulties to play online. The software is split into five sections: Early Years, Games and Quizzes, Stories and Songs, Creative Play & Find Out About.You will get the most out of these activities if you play them together with your child. Use them as a focus for chatting. Speaking and listening is very important for young children’s educational development, particularly reading and writing.
For over 20 years, Ian’s accessible activities have proved to be an important tool in helping to motivate and engage young people with additional needs who are accessing learning and communication through assistive technology including switches, touch-screens, pointing devices and eye gaze. He spends many hours each week developing new activities for the website and for individual learners in schools and centres. The activities are presented on web pages without advertising or other external links to ensure your learner’s online safety and are provided completely free of charge to the many thousands of teachers, therapists, parents around the world who use them every day.
Teaching activities, training and assessment resources for assistive technology users.
This site is designed to benefit parents and carers of young people who have additional learning needs who may have to be home schooled. Listed on the website is an extensive list of resources available that are regularly used by ASN teachers across the United Kingdom.
ASN Apps
Additional Support Apps
Take pictures of things you do in your everyday life and use these pictures to have fun conversations about what you notice. Add colourful dots to your picture that allow you to type text, assign music notes or silly sounds, and record noises. With Picture Dots you can: -Upload photos from your camera roll, or take new photos. -Use four interactive coloured dots to classify, count, label, and notice patterns.-Assign a musical notes or silly sounds to the dots.-Record a noise.-Type words in English or Spanish.-Hear the app playback your creation.-Edit your creations by deleting dots, moving dots, or changing sounds.-Save and email your creations.
This is a sample version of Verbal Me, a basic AAC and choice board app designed by special needs teachers for their students. Non-verbal kids can tap a button and the iPad will speak the button text aloud in either a boy’s or girl’s voice. This limited version includes 14 screen choices: yes-no, A-B-C, 1-2-3-4-5, Happy-Mad-Sad-Calm, Day-Night, bullying, weather, colours, fruits and letter sounds.
The NEW GoNoodle Games app features fast-paced mini games that get kids jumping, waving, and holding a pose to earn points, dodge obstacles, and have a ton of fun! The only way to play GoNoodle Games is to get off the couch and jump, wave, and pose! Since every mini-game requires movement, playing is a great opportunity for kids to wake up their bodies, engage their minds, and get active. The GoNoodle Games app doesn’t require any extra hardware and ties real-time movement to earning points, reaching new levels, and helping the GoNoodle champs. All kids need is a mobile phone or tablet and the free GoNoodle Games app to have fun.
Dive into the Buddies world of adventure with the free HiPP Buddies App: Discover 8 different educational games and 3 exciting stories with your child. The HiPP Buddies App with Max the Monkey, Tommy the Tiger, Chloe the Chameleon and other Buddies is simply and clearly structured, making it ideal for small children.
Create your own amazing fireworks display! Pick your fireworks shape and then customize it by feeding it a colourful treat. Arrange your creations into a display and see them come to life. See your choices launch into spectacular realistic particle effects and sounds, supported by multi-touch to trigger fireworks.
Piano Band is the coolest piano app for kids in the App Store. Your child will develop their musical genius with 18 classic children songs, 10 catchy musical loops and 11 musical instrument sounds to choose from. Piano Band has three unique game modes, one for playing the song, one for learning the song and a game challenge. With adorable dancing characters that move when you tap the piano keys, you are guaranteed hours of musical laughter and fun!
Picture Build is a simple game for beginner users, to engage their attention through stimulating picture building activities. Each of the twenty activities consists of building up a bright, friendly picture in six steps, ending with an engaging animation of the picture. Each step is accompanied by fun sound effects.
