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ICT to support early years learning

By November 7, 20134 Comments

Looking for ICT to support early years learning? Here are some of the best rated tools out there and some free resources for teachers.

 

Teach Your Monster To Read

TYMTR

Award winning website that helps young people practice their first steps in reading

http://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/

 

Beluga Learning / Maths

Brilliant site for engaging young learners with numeracy. Wealth of games and challenges to stimulate little mathematical minds.

http://www.belugalearning.com/

 

Poisson Rouge

A lovely set of online games and activities for young children to practise their computer, problem solving and thinking skills.

http://www.poissonrouge.com/room.php

 

Oxford Owl

oxfordowl

A website resource with free resources and ebooks to help young learners with reading and maths.

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/

 

Phonics Play

A website with lots of different interactive resources to help young learners with their phonics.

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/SoundStimuli.html

 

Early Learning HQ

As the title suggests it’s a one stop shop for all manner of different resources to support learning across the curriculum for students in early years settings.

http://www.earlylearninghq.org.uk

 

Gooru

This is a learning search engine that enables learners to access learning resources on topics

http://www.goorulearning.org/

 

Kindergarten Worksheets

A vast collection of fabulous cross curricular worksheets and resources for young children.

http://www.kindergartenworksheets.net/

 

Fungooms

A lovely set of online games and activities for young children to practise their computer, problem solving and thinking skills.

http://www.fungooms.com/

 

Starfall

Starfall is a wonderful site with games and resources for young children that help with learning to read.

http://starfall.com

 

Twinkl

Twinkl is a great cross-curricular resource rich site for teachers of young learners.

http://www.twinkl.co.uk/

 

Turtle Diary

Turtle Diary is a wonderful site packed with a huge collection of online interactive games and activities for young children, including maths and literacy resources.

http://www.turtlediary.com

 

First School Years

A good cross-curricular site with downloadable resources for teachers of young learners of 5-9 years old.

http://www.firstschoolyears.com/

 

Duckie Deck

This site has a huge collection of superb flash games for young learners. Some games are focused on life skills and others teacher them about the world around them.

http://duckiedeck.com/

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Mark Anderson

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