English · Foundation
48 interactive lessons to explore
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📚 Term 1 · Lessons 1–12
›Lesson 1
Rhyme & Beginning Sounds
Hear words that rhyme and listen for the first sound in a word.
⏱ 10 min · 12 questions
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Lesson 2
The Alphabet & Letter Sounds
Learn the order of the alphabet and the sound each letter makes.
⏱ 12 min · 8 questions
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Lesson 3
Sounding Out CVC Words
Blend three sounds to read short words like cat, pin and dog.
⏱ 12 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 4
Asking & Exciting Sentences
Learn when to use a question mark and an exclamation mark.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 5
Beginning Blends
Hear two letters blended together at the start of a word, like 'st' and 'bl'.
⏱ 12 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 6
Words Make Sentences
Count the words in a sentence and notice the spaces between them.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 7
Naming Words
Find the words that name people, animals and things around us.
⏱ 11 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 8
Short Vowel Sounds
Listen for the five short vowel sounds a, e, i, o and u.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 9
Listening for Ending Sounds
Hear the last sound at the end of a spoken word.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 10
Capital Letters for Names
Learn that names of people start with a capital letter.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 11
Position Words (Prepositions)
Use little words like in, on, under and behind to say where things are.
⏱ 10 min · 6 questions
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Lesson 12
Big & Small Letters
Match uppercase (BIG) letters with their lowercase (small) partners.
⏱ 10 min · 6 questions
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📚 Term 2 · Lessons 13–24
›Lesson 13
Retelling a Story in Order
Tell what happened first, next and last in a simple story.
⏱ 12 min · 6 questions
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Lesson 14
Joining Ideas with 'and'
Use the joining word 'and' to put two ideas together in one sentence.
⏱ 10 min · 6 questions
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Lesson 15
Blending & Segmenting Sounds
Push sounds together to read a word, and break a word into its sounds.
⏱ 10 min · 6 questions
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Lesson 16
How Books Work
Find the front cover, the title, and learn which way we read the words.
⏱ 10 min · 6 questions
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Lesson 17
Colour & Number Words
Read and recognise everyday colour and number words.
⏱ 10 min · 6 questions
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Lesson 18
Writing 'I' Sentences
Start a sentence with the capital word 'I' to tell about yourself.
⏱ 10 min · 6 questions
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Lesson 19
Forming & Tracing Letters
Learn how letters are drawn with strokes and follow them in the right order.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 20
Words That Are Opposites
Spot everyday opposite words like big and small, hot and cold.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 21
Sorting Words into Groups
Group words that belong together, like animals, foods and colours.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 22
Predicting from the Cover
Use the title and pictures on a book cover to guess what it is about.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 23
Splitting Words: Onset & Rime
Break a word into its first sound (onset) and the rest of the word (rime).
⏱ 12 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 24
Listening & Following Directions
Listen carefully to spoken directions and do them in the right order.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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📚 Term 3 · Lessons 25–36
›Lesson 25
Matching Letters in Words
Find the same letter at the start of different words and match letters to sounds.
⏱ 11 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 26
Talking in Full Sentences
Use a whole sentence to tell someone what you mean instead of just one word.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 27
Clapping Word Beats
Break words into beats by clapping the parts you hear.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 28
Words for Feelings
Name how characters and people feel using feeling words.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 29
My Favourite Part
Talk about the part of a story you like best and why.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 30
Which Way We Read
Learn that we read words from left to right and top to bottom.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 31
Doing Words (Early Verbs)
Find the action word that tells us what someone or something is doing.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 32
Parts of a Book
Learn the front cover, title and where a book begins.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 33
Matching Pictures to Words
Match a simple word to the picture it names.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 34
Greetings & Polite Words
Use greetings and polite words like please and thank you when we talk.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 35
Finding Rhyming Pairs
Match pairs of words that rhyme and finish simple rhymes.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 36
Spaces Between Words
Learn that writing has spaces between words so we can read it.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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📚 Term 4 · Lessons 37–48
›Lesson 37
Loud and Soft Reading Voices
Use a loud or soft voice and match how characters might speak.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 38
Weather Words
Learn words to talk about the weather and match them to pictures.
⏱ 10 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 39
Rhyme: Find the Odd One Out
Listen to groups of words and spot the one that does not rhyme.
⏱ 10 min · 6 questions
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Lesson 40
Animal Sound Words
Explore fun words that copy the sounds animals make.
⏱ 10 min · 6 questions
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Lesson 41
Two Letters, One Sound: sh and ch
Discover how the letter pairs sh and ch team up to make one new sound.
⏱ 12 min · 6 questions
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Lesson 42
Vowels and Consonants
Meet the five vowel letters and learn how they are different from consonants.
⏱ 12 min · 6 questions
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Lesson 43
Little Words We See a Lot
Learn to read the small helper words like the, I, my and is that pop up in every book.
⏱ 12 min · 6 questions
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Lesson 44
Days of the Week
Say, order and read the seven special names for the days of the week.
⏱ 12 min · 7 questions
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Lesson 45
Who Is in the Story?
Find the characters - the people and animals a story is about.
⏱ 12 min · 6 questions
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Lesson 46
Where Does the Story Happen?
Discover the setting - the place where a story happens.
⏱ 12 min · 6 questions
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Lesson 47
Real or Make-Believe?
Sort real things that could truly happen from make-believe things in stories.
⏱ 12 min · 6 questions
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Lesson 48
Asking with Question Words
Use the little question words who, what, where and when to ask about the world.
⏱ 12 min · 6 questions