Phonological and phonemic awareness: Online games and apps

	Teachers’ Favourites Links to literacy websites that focus on developing phonological awareness and offer a range of online games and printable resources.
	BBC – River Rhyming Help the animated character cross the river by matching words that rhyme.
	Scholastic – Reggie the Rhino Use words and pictures to find words that rhyme.
	Professor Garfield – Chicken Coop Game A game to help children isolate and identify the sounds at the beginning of words.
	Scholastic – Clifford the Dog Sound Match A picture-matching game that helps children focus on the sounds at the beginning of words. May require initial adult guidance as instructions are not intuitive.

	Phonics Rhyming Bee An app to help children recognise rhyming words with short vowel sounds.
	Reading Magic Games to develop phonological and phonemic awareness and blending and segmenting skills.
	Oz Phonics No instructional content, just practice of skills. For example, no explanation of general rules for ‘bossy e’ or vowel digraphs. No corrective feedback.
	Elkonin Boxes A literacy tool for beginning readers. Good for phonemic awareness, not letter-sounds. Instructions are written so needs adult guidance.