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.

News for Your Classroom

A wonderful site with news stories for children and young people. It is American but it has global stories which could be used as information texts in literacy lessons.

Coins in the Classroom

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.

The Fuse School

A growing range of free secondary age group teaching videos on maths, biology, physics, chemistry, English, Business and Information Technology. The functional maths section is also suitable for primary pupils.

Grammar Monster

Do you know how to use semicolons, where to put apostrophes and when to use commas? There is an excellent section on punctuation and another on easily confused words.

LitCharts

LitCharts has 853 literature guides for students including every Shakespeare play.

National Poetry Day

Although suitable for any time of year, you can explore this site for ideas to celebrate National Poetry Day with poetry in school. It features Toolkit for Schools and downloadable teaching resources.

Shakespeare Schools Foundation

SSF is a biennial festival open to every secondary school, working with 11-16 year olds and their teachers throughout the UK. This unique arts-education initiative enables young people to perform Shakespeare's most famous plays in their local theatres.

Skillswise Apostrophes

Baffled by apostrophes? Find out how good your knowledge is in this game where you need to beat the clock.

Visuwords

A graphical dictionary and thesaurus which is a great teaching aid on an interactive whiteboard if you are encouraging children to think of alternative words in their creative writing.