Turn phonics practice into the highlight of your morning block
Meet Beedle: a six-guess decodable spelling game built exclusively for the classroom board. Align your daily targets with your structured literacy scope, hide your mystery word, and transform five minutes of routine review into pure engagement.
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Why teachers use Beedle as their daily phonics warm-up
You've just played a round. Here's how this classroom spelling game works behind the scenes.
Practice that pulls from decodables
Words are pulled instantly from evidence-based decodable word lists, so your daily game stays perfectly aligned with the phonics sequence your class is learning.
Whole-class phonics warm-up
Project Beedle right onto your whiteboard, take guesses from the carpet, and turn five minutes of interactive review into a high-energy start to your daily literacy block.
Set the word you actually want
Use the custom solution box to drop in your targeted phonics focus or tricky sight word for the day, then easily hide it before you project. No prep, no guesswork.
Loved Beedle? You’ll use these classroom literacy tools every single day
A small sample of the other clever tools you can drop straight into your daily routine.
Word Builder
Drag graphemes into sound boxes, mark heart words, and model blending live during your phonics block.
Word of the Day
A daily routine for vocabulary, morphology, and spelling rules that takes zero setup.
Decodable Words, Images & Sentences
Pull connected reading practice from the same decodable word list Beedle plays from.
Syllable Mapper
Map syllable types when students are ready to look at bigger words than Beedle can show.
Four in a Roll
Extra phonics practice without the busywork. Repeated retrieval in a format students enjoy.
Roll a Silly Sentence
Take phonics into sentence-level work. Playful, but still purposeful.
How to use Beedle in your classroom.
Drop Beedle into your literacy block, project it on the board, and annotate over the top as you model phonics thinking live with your class. Built for whole-class phonics warm-ups, spelling revision, and explicit teaching.
Project
Project Beedle onto your interactive whiteboard and turn spelling practice into a shared classroom challenge. A simple way to make daily review more engaging without changing your routine.
Annotate
Circle sounds, underline tricky parts and demonstrate decoding strategies as students work through each guess together. Perfect for explicit phonics instruction.
Set today's word
Choose a decodable word aligned to your phonics focus and have a new spelling challenge ready in seconds. Familiar structure, endless replayability.
Beedle is one literacy game. The Hive is your whole teaching day.
Start with the spelling game that brought you here, then explore the rest of The Hive’s literacy, numeracy, and classroom tools - all designed to work together in real primary classrooms.
Literacy tools
Phonics, spelling, reading, handwriting, vocabulary. All your literacy teaching tools in one place, built to work together.
Numeracy tools
Ten frames, place value mats, fractions, number lines, base ten blocks. Visual maths tools ready to use without building anything from scratch.
Classroom tools
Timers, group generators, pickers, noise meters, and digital classroom routines that help your day run more smoothly without juggling multiple tabs and platforms.
Includes Beedle plus hundreds of literacy, numeracy, and classroom teaching tools for primary teachers.
Plan your whole teaching week in one place.
The real upgrade isn't more tabs, tools, or disconnected resources. It's one place that brings your lessons, slides, routines, and teaching tools together for the whole week.
Plan your week in one view, with your slides, teaching tools, and classroom resources linked exactly where you need them.
No more jumping between tabs to find what you need. Timetables, lessons, literacy tools, numeracy tools, and classroom routines all live together in one place.
Track progress, behaviour, intervention groups, or classroom notes with flexible student tracking tools built into each class.
Why teachers keep using The Hive every day
Ready to try Beedle with your class?
You've seen how Beedle fits into real classrooms. Now it's time to bring it into your literacy block, phonics warm-ups, and daily teaching routine.