| Web
sites for Literacy |
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Aesop’s
Famous Fables (KS1) |
http://www.umass.edu/aesop/ |
BBC Words
and Pictures – Phonics, word level work (KS1) |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/wordsandpictures/index.shtml |
BBC Schools Online - Literacy
(KS1 & 2) |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/schools/4_11/index.shtml |
Big Books
Online (KS1) |
http://www.sebastianswan.org.uk/index.html |
Children’s
Storybooks Online |
http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html |
ITN top news
stories for children (KS2) |
http://www.missdorothy.com/ |
MAPE |
http://www.mape.org.uk/curriculum/index.htm |
Oxford Reading
Tree Online - Exciting online activities to
support the teaching of literacy and extend
ICT skills – subscription. |
http://www.oxfordreadingtree.com/ |
Puffin Books |
http://www.puffin.co.uk/ |
Spark Island
(subscription) |
http://www.sparkisland.com/ |
Story Hour |
http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour/ |
The Official
Roald Dahl Web site |
http://www.roalddahl.com |
KS2/3 Encourages
reading, children sharing book reviews (subscription site) |
http://www.kidsreview.org.uk/ |
Although
a History site, good for comprehension exercises |
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/ |
Reading,
writing, speaking and listening activities |
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ |
Free national
children’s newspaper for 8 to 14 year olds |
http://www.thenewspaper.org.uk/ |
Teacher resource for planning
- as recommended by the Bucks Literacy Consultants |
http://www.literacymatters.com/ |
Teaching Ideas - National
Literacy Trust
General information about Literacy
Lists of Resources |
www.literacytrust.org.uk |
National
Association for the Teaching of English (NATE)
General information about English teaching
Resources
Book Reviews (Professional) |
www.nate.org.uk |
Lancashire
Grid for Learning
KS1 Useful range of resources e.g. activities based upon the Developing
Early Writing and Progression in Phonics materials |
www.lancsngfl.ac.uk |
Bernard
Ashley
Front cover from books with short synopsis and purchasing options |
www.bashley.com |
Eric
Carle
Speak to Author
Frequently asked questions
Publications by Eric with synopsis |
www.eric-carle.com |
The
official Gillian Cross web site
Biography
Book details
FAQs
Text symbol index (used in books) |
www.gillian-cross.co.uk/ |
Ted
Dewan
E-mail the authors
Animated extracts from books
Information about illustration |
www.wormworks.com |
Jeremy
Strong
Information about books
Message board / what's your story
Children's games |
www.jeremystrong.co.uk/ |
Anne
Fine
Details of books for children of all ages
Details of Anne Fine's childhood
Details on how to meet the author & literacy opportunities |
www.annefine.co.uk |
Anne Frank
Pictorial guides around house
Information about Anne’s life
|
www.annefrank.org |
Brian Jaques
Author biography
Puzzles & games
Book info
|
www.redwall.org |
Robin Jarvis
Quite Scary opening!
Will capture children’s attention – upper KS2
Book information
Downloads from books
|
www.robinjarvis.com |
Lemony Snicket
Information about author & artist
Games
|
www.lemonysnicket.com/ |
Andrea Shavick
Writing, Poetry
Information about author visits
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www.shavick.com/poetry.html |
Caroline Pitcher
Links to information about her books
Extracts of her own books
|
www.carolinepitcher.co.uk/ |
JK Rowling & other
authors
Loads of interesting activities
Ideas for story starters
Poetry Party
Raving Reviews
|
www.storiesfromtheweb.org/index.htm |
| Official Harry Potter
Site |
harrypotter.warnerbros.co.uk/home.html |
| Other Potter links |
http://www.harrypotterrealm.com |
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http://www.jkrowling.com |
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http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org |
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http://www.hp-lexicon.org |
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http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/ |
| How obsessed are you
(or your children)? |
http://www.fuuko.com/hpquiz.html |
Poetry Kit
Details of poetry events, competitions, courses, readings, festivals, magazines,
workshops, publishers and societies, as well as information about poets
and links to other poetry sites on the Internet.
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http://www.poetrykit.org/ |
BBC Spellits
NLS Word objectives for Yr.3-5. Spelling challenges
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www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/home_flash.shtml
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BBC Starship
KS1 preparing for SATS
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www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/ |
BBC Revisewise
Preparation for KS2 SATS
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www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/ |
BBC MagicKey
Follows the TV programmes in which Kipper, Biff, Chip, Wilf, Wilma and
Floppy go off on their adventures. Based on NLS requirements for Yr.1
sentence and text level work in a new and imaginative way.
Resources section includes an outline of the areas of the literacy curriculum
each adventure covers, instructions on how to use the activities and lesson
plans.
|
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey |
| An excellent range
of resources |
http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/english/ |
| Coxhoe School website |
http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk |
| Whootie Owl's Stories,
fairy tales, folk tales, playscripts and newsletter |
http://www.storiestogrowby.com |
| TES English Teaching Resources |
http://www.tes.co.uk/primary-teaching-resources/ |
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Drama |
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Drama in
the Primary School |
http://www.q-ten.co.uk/artsotm/education/primary/primay.html |
Drama in
primary schools |
http://www.creativedrama.com/ |
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