Guided Reading and Reading Games with Roy the Zebra

A wonderful guided reading story with accompanying printable worksheets and guided reading discussion sheets. There are 80 interactive literacy games, stories and songs for use in school or at home. Well worth a look!

CBeebies Stories

Animated stories and nursery rhymes from the BBC including traditional tales such as Red Riding Hood.

Literactive

Lots of quality downloadable rhymes, worksheets and reading games here from Literactive.

BBC Starship English

These literacy games and print and do activities are aimed at year 2 children (6-7 year olds). They can help with writing story beginnings, reading, punctuation including speech marks and apostrophes and spelling.

BBC School Radio

Podcasts of radio broadcasts, downloads, audio, video clips, sound stimulus library and learning resources for primary schools.

The Poetry Zone

An inspirational poetry site with all sorts. If you are between 4 and 18 you can send in your poems to be published. There are ideas for teachers on how to teach poetry. Read interviews with poets and find contact details for poets who visit schools.

Look, Cover, Write, Check

A brilliant version of the spelling site where you can test yourself on high frequency words or enter your own words easily to test your knowledge.

SparkleBox

Free printable resources for foundation and early years practitioners. Useful for classroom displays.

Storyline Online

Delightful stories read by professional screen actors in America. The movies use the illustrations from the books. There are lots of choices each with an activity guide.

The Children's Poetry Archive

A superb selection of poems arranged by themes, style or author. You can listen to an audio track of each poem being read by the author.