CD-ROM computer software

This pack includes a very useful CD-ROM that includes how to pronounce the sounds correctly.

The activities are aimed at children in Year 1 and includes everything you need for fun phonics practice at home leading up to the Year 1 phonics screening check. It supports what your child is learning in school and includes:

* Three phonics workbooks to provide lots of practice in this early reading skill. Each workbook includes tips for doing the activities together.

* Six carefully levelled interactive ebooks and activities on a CD-ROM.

* A colourful reward chart with stickers to build confidence.

* Advice from phonics expert Laura Sharp, providing answers to questions such as 'What is phonics?' 'How do I say the sounds?', 'How can I support my child with phonics and the phonics check?'.

Author:   Laura Sharp (phonics consultant)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Number of Pages:   
Age category:   5+
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Attributes:   Mixed Media
ISBN nr.:   9780198488002

Enter the interactive world of Inky Mouse and her friends as they practise all the five skills in Jolly Phonics. With 20 fun activities to explore, children will be able to practice and revise their own knowledge. The games are available in different levels: easy, medium or hard - ideal for children at all levels of early reading.

The main menu features Inky's home where all games can be accessed. There are seven zones, each teaching a particular skill. By clicking on each of these, children will be taken through a number of fun and enjoyable games.

The 20 games cover all these important skills:
* Learning letter sounds
* Letter formation
* Blending (so c-a-t makes cat, for reading)
* Identifying sounds in words (so dog is sounded d-o-g, for spelling)
* Tricky words (with irregular spellings, like 'was' and 'said')
* Short vowels (which it helps to know for spelling)
* Alternative spellings of vowels (because English is complicated)

Levels of games:
Easy - Suitable for a child who is just starting to learn to read and write.
Medium - Suitable for a child who has learned most letter sounds and can read and write simple regular words.
Hard - Suitable for a child who knows all the letter sounds can read and write longer regular words, and who is learning the alternative spellings of vowels.

The Games CD is available in both British and American English audio with precursive or print letter text options available for both during the install process.

Minimum System Requirements:
PC: Windows 98 XP, Vista or 7, 633mhz cpu, 128mb ram, 300mb Hard Disk space, 4x CD-ROM
Mac: OSX 10.5, Power PC G5 or Intel processor,128mb ram, 300mb Hard Disk space, 8x CD-ROM

A Games CD with Site Licence is available for schools in the Jolly Phonics 'Additional items for schools' section.
Click here for a demo of the Games CD (use browser's back button to return to Focus on Phonics)

Author:   
Publisher:   Jolly Learning
Number of Pages:   
Age category:   3+
Size:   
Attributes:   CD-ROM (single User)
ISBN nr.:   9781844140824

Letterland items on sale - fantastic animated home software, suitable for children aged 3+. We have had excellent customer feedback about this product.

There's soon to be a party for everyone in Letterland but first you have to find and invite them! Clues will help you to discover all the characters hidden in the Letterland scenes. When you find a character, you get to play a special game as a reward. There are also songs with actions for each character so you can sing and dance along.

This well-priced software is specially designed for use at home, or for individual nursery children new to Letterland and ICT.The a-z shapes and sounds are introduced in such a fun way that children don't even know they are learning!

Minimum system requirements:
MacOS X version 10.3 or higher.
PC Windows® 98 to Windws Vista (32 bit system only - not suitable for Windows 64 bit version or Windows 7), 750MHz Pentium III or equivalent, 64 Mb of RAM, 8x CD-Rom drive, 800 x 600 screen resolution, Sound Card.

RRP £16.99 - OUR PRICE £11.99

Author:   
Publisher:   Letterland
Number of Pages:   
Age category:   3 - 6
Size:   
Attributes:   CD-ROM
ISBN nr.:   9781862093966

A playful and exciting way to reinforce letter sounds and letter formation.

Listen to the sound - play the songs to introduce the letter sound and letter formation, then move the characters around the letter shape yourself.

Look at the shape - play the song and watch the characters form the letter. Move the objects around the letter shape yourself. These different songs introduce the letter names and how to form the letter shapes correctly.

Playing with Sounds and Letters is a lively and colourful way to travel through the alphabet, or any sequence of letters or letter groups. It doesn't follow ant particular scheme, but provides a flexible resource for supporting phonics and letter formation teaching.

Winner - GOLD - Practical Pre-School Awards 2009
Highly Commended - Nursery World Awards 2009

Suitable for PC and Mac.

RRP £60 - OUR PRICE £49

Author:   
Publisher:   Yellow Door
Number of Pages:   
Age category:   3+
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Attributes:   CD-ROM (Single User Licence)
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Interactive CD-ROM site licence.

RRP £150 - OUR PRICE £135

Alternatively, we also accept school Purchase Orders by fax. Our fax no. is 01737 789806. If ordering prior to school holidays, please indicate dates when there will be nobody at school to receive parcels.

Author:   
Publisher:   Yellow Door
Number of Pages:   
Age category:   3+
Size:   
Attributes:   CD-ROM (Site Licence)
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Everything you need to teach Jolly Phonics on the whiteboard (IWB).

The software provides a full and extensive year's programme for teaching Jolly Phonics thoroughly on an interactive whiteboard. It enables teachers to deliver lessons in a fun and engaging way to children using a wide variety of activities for whole class and individual use.
With all the resources a teacher requires at a touch of a button, the programme is fun and easy to use.


Structured daily sessions for teaching each of the letter sounds, letter formation, blending, identifying sounds in words, tricky words and alternative spellings of vowels.

Handy step by step teacher's notes are available for every session. These can either be viewed on screen or printed off if required.

Interactive lessons with lots of blending, spelling and writing practice, ideal for whole class or independent use.

Audio option for hearing the letter sounds, Jolly Jingles and Jolly Songs.

Lots of printable worksheets, templates and games that can be used in class to reinforce the teaching. These can also be given as homework for the child.

This version is British English with pre-cursive font and is suitable for use on Promethean. Smart and other whiteboards. Version 2 (2010) - for use on any number of computers owned by an organisation on a single site.
Minimum system requirements:
PC: Windows XP, Vista and 7. 450 MB free hard-disk space, Intel PIII 1 GHz or equivalent, 256 MB RAM, SVGA graphics (800 x 600 at 16-bit), CD-ROM frive, sound card.
Mac: (Intel-based): Mac OS X 10.3.9-10.6x, 400 MB free hard-disk space for typical install, 256MB RAM, SVGA graphics (800x600 at 16-bit), CD-ROM drive, sound card.

RRP £295 - OUR PRICE £289
Click here for a demo of the Whiteboard software (use browser's back button to return to Focus on Phonics)

Author:   Sara Wernham, Sue Lloyd and Susan Lauder
Publisher:   Jolly Learning
Number of Pages:   
Age category:   
Size:   
Attributes:   Software Site License
ISBN nr.:   9781844140954