Dear Parent/Carer
As we continue with home learning activities, we have compiled a list of online resources you can use to support your children with literacy activities. Some of these activities are free and some have a small charge for using them.
Thank you for your continuing support.
Free Resources
Phonics and Spelling
• Free access to games during Coronavirus situation https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Reading
• Free access during Coronavirus situation https://readingeggs.co.uk/coronavirus-covid-19/
• Free audio books https://stories.audible.com/discovery
Touch Typing
• Touch Typing with BBC DanceMat https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr
Various Resources
• Literacy games online https://www.ducksters.com/games/
Dyslexia Support
• Support Website for children and young people www.unwrapped.dyslexiascotland.org.uk
• Natural Reader Free text-to-speech toolbar www.naturalreaders.com
• Seeing AI (app) from Microsoft; reads text in front of device camera
• My Study Bar portable tools to support planning, reading, writing, voice and vision for older pupils with literacy difficulties www.eduapps.org
Not Free
• Memory and Learning Skills app Dyslexia Quest (not free) https://www.nessy.com/uk/apps/dyslexia-quest/
• Phonics app (not free) Phonics with Phonograms for iOS devices, sold on Apple App Store