Over 300 Words to Use Instead of Said
A brilliant list of alternative words to use as an alternative to said. There is a desktop version with examples of the words in sentences and also a useful mobile version of the site. Words are arranged according to emotions.
Storynory
Free audio books, including classic fairy tales, myths, verse, Bible stories and original stories for children. Download mp3 files, burn to CD, subscribe to kids' podcast. The only downside is that there is advertising at the end of the stories.
EdWordle
Wordle is a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. It gives more prominence to words that appear more frequently. You can tweak the clouds with different fonts, layouts and colour schemes. Print out your clouds.
ReadWorks.org
An excellent American site with good lesson ideas and materials aimed at improving reading comprehension teaching throughout the primary age range. It is well worth registering.
Phoneme Patterns
Quickly find readable words associated with YR, Y1 and Y2 phonemes from Letters & Sounds in this sound buttons and phoneme family resource.
Lovereading4kids
Lovereading4kids is a book website for parents and children to help make book choices easier. You can download an extract from each book. Each book has a synopsis and reviews.
The Royal Mint Teaching Resources
Explore the world of coins, their history, design and manufactures. Each lesson pack, designed for classrooms in England and Wales, comes complete with teachers’ notes, lesson plans, fact files, worksheets and whiteboard resource.
Finish the Story: Bushfire
Edit the comic book adventure called Bushfire to make the story more interesting. Choose a conclusion for the story and then improve the grammar by looking changing nouns to pronouns, by adding adverbs and choosing saying verbs.
Little Bird Spelling
This spelling game has tricky words listed in the National Curriculum as being 'common exception words'. It is a look, cover, write and check game.
Wonderful Words, Creative Stories Beach Theme
An animated game where you can see how to add adjectives to make boring sentences into more interesting ones.
