Jumble Jungle shuffles together everything Early Years explorers have practised: finding letters, hearing first and middle sounds, rhyming, clapping syllables, sorting words and reading first words. Every question is read aloud.
What your child will learn
- Find a letter and match pictures that start with the same sound
- Pick the picture that rhymes and clap the beats in a word
- Hear the vowel sound in the middle of a short word
- Read a simple word and sort pictures into groups
Listening first, reading next
Most of these games are about hearing the sounds in words, not about reading them. Children who can hear that cat and hat rhyme, or that sun starts like sock, find it far easier to learn what letters do.
Mixed practice
Mixing the games means each question needs a fresh think: “Am I listening for the start, the middle or the end?” If one kind of question keeps catching your child out, its own world is the best place to practise.
Example questions
Here are a few questions like the ones in the first quest. Can you solve them?
1. Find the letter G.
- G
- I
- A
Show answer
Answer: G. This is the capital letter G. Its partner is g.
2. Which one starts like 🎩 hat?
- 🥚 egg
- 🚀 rocket
- 🐴 horse
Show answer
Answer: 🐴 horse. Hat and horse both start with the sound “h”.
3. Find the letter U.
- E
- Y
- U
Show answer
Answer: U. This is the capital letter U. Its partner is u.
Tips for grown-ups
- Play “I spy” with first sounds: “something beginning with sss”.
- Clap the beats in family names — whose name has the most claps?
- Make up silly rhymes together: “a cat in a hat on a mat”.