Free! Ragtag Rhymes Assessment Checklists
These editable checklists help you to keep track of children’s reading skills using our decodable readers:
Tune into… Nursery rhymes
This collection of differentiated listening games based on familiar nursery rhymes will help children to develop a sense of rhythm and identify rhyme and alliteration.
With beautiful illustrations and clearly sung rhymes, Tune into… Nursery Rhymes offers a range of sound lotto style games. The picture cards make the games even more flexible, allowing you to adapt them to learners’ needs.
This great value pack contains:
- 20 illustrated rhyme cards
- An audio CD of listening games at three different levels, plus all the nursery rhymes as individual tracks (also available as a download)
- A games guide with all the rhyme sequences listed for reference
Features the following Nursery Rhymes:
- Jack and Jill
- Humpty Dumpty
- Sing a song of sixpence
- Hey diddle, diddle
- Twinkle, twinkle little start
- Old MacDonald
- Baa, baa black sheep
- Hickory dickory dock
- The wheels on the bus
- Five little ducks
- One, two, three, four, five
- Row, row, row your boat
- If you’re happy and you know it
- Five little speckled frogs
- Mary, Mary quite contrary
- London Bridge is falling down
- I’m a little teapot
- Five little monkeys
- Down by the station
- The grand old Duke of York
Let’s Roll – Nursery Rhymes
These playful rollers will delight children as they sing along to the rhymes they create! While rolling and stamping, they will be developing important early language and fine motor skills. Roll in sand, play dough or clay and add creative props to build on the learning and extend the play. The six much-loved rhymes include: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Hickory Dickory Dock, Humpty Dumpty, Incy Wincy Spider, Five Little Speckled Frogs and The Wheels on the Bus. Set contains six rollers measuring approx 72 x 34mm. Safe for age 2+.
Develop speech, language and literacy skills with Let’s Roll Nursey Rhymes through a series of short videos.
Come Alive Nursery Rhymes App
This fantastic app is bursting with eight well-loved nursery rhymes to explore through an engaging mix of rhythm, rhyme, songs, games, and fact pages. A comprehensive resource to support key language and literacy development, each nursery rhyme contains the following activities:
Sing with me – Children can follow the animated rhyme as it is sung to them and watch the entertaining animation that accompanies it.
Picture play – Explore the content of the different animations, discovering all sorts of quirky nursery rhyme secrets.
Play and learn – This section includes a range of interactive games exploring the language and numeracy learning opportunities provided by the rhymes. A further interactive game accompanies each rhyme.
Find out about – This offers a treasure trove of interactive non-fiction games and activities tailored to each rhyme. These features take the learning into a wide range of curriculum areas.
The multi-platform licence is suitable for iPad, Android tablet, PC and Mac. For further details on device compatibility, please see the Apps FAQ.
Stand-It-Stones
Propping up story sequencing cards, activity cards or backdrops for small world play is now no longer a problem with these clever standing stones! This set of five robust card holders will support cards of up to A4 in size. Just simply slide the cards into the slot and create backdrops and displays throughout your environment: in sand, soil, and water! Made from a stone and resin mix, these practical holders will naturally blend into your storytelling landscapes. Height 40mm. Age 3+.
Tune into… Animal sounds
This collection of differentiated listening games will help children to tune into animal sounds.
With photographic images and real sound effects throughout, this engaging set offers a range of sound lotto style games. The photo cards make the games even more flexible, allowing you to adapt them to learners’ needs.
This great value pack includes:
- 15 pets/farm animals cards
- 15 wild animals cards
- An audio CD of listening games at three different levels, plus all the sounds as individual tracks (also available as a download)
- A games guide with all the sound sequences listed for reference.
Other Tune into… sets include Environmental Sounds, Instrumental Sounds, and Nursery Rhymes.
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Story Talk Cards
Picture books provide rich opportunities to explore language and extend vocabulary. These attractive packs include eight double-sided plastic story cards featuring the original illustrations from the book on one side and engaging language activities on the reverse. These ideas will build essential speech and language skills through discussion, and include ideas for story talk, retelling prompts, questions about the characters shown, and role play, amongst others.
Measuring 275 x 210mm and printed on durable plastic, these cards are ideal for introducing the story to a group and are tough enough for use throughout a learning environment, including outdoors. They are also fantastic as a sequencing resource, enabling discussion and engagement as the children decide on the correct retelling of the original story. They work well used alongside our Bear Hunt Wooden Characters. Safe for age 18m+.
Handa’s Surprise Story Talk Cards
Join Handa on her journey to her friend Akeyo, sharing in the secret of what is happening to the fruit in her basket. This set of eight double-sided plastic story cards allows you to follow the story by exploring the original illustrations from the book. The reverse of each card is full of engaging language activities to build on and extend children’s interest, helping them to develop essential speech and language skills. Ideas include story mapping, role play and personal reflection.
Measuring 275 x 210mm and printed on durable plastic, these cards are ideal for introducing the story to a group and are tough enough for use throughout a learning environment, including outdoors. Safe for age 18m+.
Rhyming Pebbles
This set of 16 visually appealing rhyming stones (eight rhyming pairs) provides a tactile way to explore common rhyming families and develop phonemic awareness. Suitable for use alongside our Find the Rhyme App, these stones are also a great learning tool in their own right. The set comes with two illustrated rhyming pebbles for each of the following families: -ag, -an, -ap, -at, -ing, -og, -ot and –ug. Plenty of opportunities for learning about sounds and rhymes. Pebbles measure 45mm and their engraved design will not fade over time. Safe for age 2+.
Traditional Tales Storybook Set
These story books are guaranteed to become firm favourites in your setting. They feature beautiful illustrations, lyrical rhyming text and a repeating chorus that children will love to join in with! Each book contains 24 pages. Size 210 x 210mm. Each pack include six books:
- The Billy Goats Gruff
- The Three Little Pigs
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- The Gingerbread Man