Phonics games and activities
Early years teaching resources index
Ten pairs of video clips from Mr Thorne, made exclusively for teachers on TES Resources. Watch Mr Thorne at work in his Year 1 classroom, demonstrating how to play a variety of games with pupils, to reinforce and develop phonics learning.
The first video in each set allows you watch the game in class and the second clip offers a commentary from Mr Thorne with tips and advice for running each game in your own classroom.
- Beginnings and Endings
- Beginnings and Endings (with commentary)
- Clever Quiz
- Clever Quiz (with commentary)
- Magic E - Split digraph
- Magic E - Split digraph (with commentary)
- Mixed up phonemes
- Mixed up phonemes (with commentary)
- Mixed up sentences
- Mixed up sentences (with commentary)
- Pairs
- Pairs (with commentary)
- Phoneme Bingo
- Phoneme Bingo (with commentary)
- Phonics Connect 3
- Phonics Connect 3 (with commentary)
- Phonics Family Fortunes
- Phonics Family Fortunes (with commentary)

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Mr Thornes phonics - graet ideas will certainly be trying these!
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12:13
26 March, 2011
jimchris
Great games. I'll use some of them this week definitely.
Thank you.
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19:00
2 May, 2011
aniafratczak
These activities are very useful, very engaging and very charming. Well done, Mr Thorne!
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16:01
14 May, 2011
rileym
Excellent resources!!! A++++ for you Mr Thorne.
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16:17
29 May, 2011
ewciak
Fun and Phonics - brilliant!
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7:33
4 June, 2011
gloucester_teacher
Fantastic phonics activities :)
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11:37
22 June, 2011
laurapeters
Some fantastic ideas, thank you
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20:44
13 November, 2011
Andreapotter44
I can see that Mr Thorne has a passion for what he does and his ideas and games are excellent. This has given me lots of new ideas to add to my synthetic phonics programme - thank-you, and congratulations on being such an inspiring teacher!
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3:21
11 January, 2012
suzannepilkington
Children love these educational games, especially when they see that the teacher next door is in videos about them!
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15:12
22 May, 2012
Dina H
many thanks - fresh ideas - also very useful for training support staff.
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10:35
10 June, 2012
Piri Piri