Prevent the ‘Summer Slide’: Fun Learning Games for the Holidays

Do you have children or young people in your life who are looking for fun activities over the school break?

While summer is a time to relax, educators and parents often worry about the ‘Summer Slide’ - the gradual loss of reading, spelling, and math skills that can occur over the long holiday.

The good news? Keeping skills sharp doesn't have to feel like homework!

At the Dyslexia Action Shop, our multisensory games offer "stealth learning" - activities that are so engaging and hands-on, that children strengthen their core literacy and numeracy skills without even realising it.

Here are some of our top picks to keep minds active, entertained, and ready for the new school year:

Sequo is a fantastic resource to support children with a range of mathematical concepts, particularly times tables. Through regular visual repetition and pattern recognition, it helps cement multiplication facts into memory - keeping maths confidence high all August long.

Featuring 140 durable, brightly colored plastic tiles of common onsets and rimes, this tactile game lets kids snap together thousands of word combinations. It is a brilliant, low-stress way to explore word structures. Check them out!

Turn tricky spelling rules into an interactive game! Children can practice adding prefixes and suffixes with these flash cards, visually discovering how root words change meaning through play.

This set of 6 colorful board games breaks down parts of speech - including nouns, verbs, prepositions, and conjunctions - into vibrant, easy-to-digest challenges that boost confidence in sentence building. Great for kids aged 7-11 and older children with special needs, or English as an Additional Language.

Ideal for sequencing activities, this bright and attractive mat has a rainbow arc on one side and an arc of letters on the other. Recommended for use with Smart Phonics Letters. Children can spell out words using the rainbow as a visual guide to help them!

Cursive magnetic letters; the pack consists of 73 pieces including 2 alphabet sets, 2 sets of vowels and 11 digraphs. Children can spell out words by magnetising them against the fridge, the radiator, or it could work very nicely with the Magnetic Rainbow Arc!

These desktop charts enable children to quickly access the various spelling patterns of the 44 phoneme sounds. A useful tool for your children to have while they practice their writing…you could challenge them to keep a diary about their activities, or write a story over the summer!

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Do you need further advice?

Whether you are looking for specific dyslexia-friendly resources, speech and language aids, or general SEN support, our expert team is here to help.

• Call or Email Us: +44 (0)1784 222339 or shop@dyslexiaaction.org.uk
• Explore the Shop: Browse our range of games here!

Have a wonderful, restful rest of your summer break!