Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Paradigm is an interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide. It has useful advice to help you improve your writing techniques, but it is quite heavy going.
Miffy
Games, a story and a colouring picture based around the character Miffy created by Dick Bruna. You can send your friends a Miffy card by email.
I'm Reading
Online illustrated story books with audio to help young children read. Children can click on the words to hear what they say. They include traditional tales, myths, fables, comics and plays.
GCSE Bitesize
All GCSE Bitesize revision guides from the BBC are featured on this site.
Poop Deck Pirates
A subscription site phonics game which can help you to build words. Read the words and decide if they are real words or not. The game links to phases 3, 4 and 5 of the 'Letters and Sounds' programme. It works well on an interactive whiteboard.
What's that noise?
An animated, narrated story for young children about animals and the noises they make.
PhonicsPlay.co.uk
Phonics reading games linked to the 'Letters and Sounds' programme in England. Some are free on this subscription site.
Phoneme Pop
Phoneme Pop is a subscription game based on the 'Letters and Sounds' programme. This game supports phoneme - grapheme correspondence. It is useful if your child is learning the letter sounds.
The First 1000 Most Commonly Used English Words
A simple site which has a list of the first thousand commonly used words arranged in order of common usage. If you are trying to improve your spelling skills it is a useful reference tool.
Phoneme Patterns
A subscription site for quickly finding readable words associated with YR, Y1 and Y2 phonemes from Letters & Sounds in this sound buttons and phoneme family resource.
