Brenda Williams Poems

Delightful poems for children by Brenda Williams on themes such as summer, winter, autumn, baby poems, festivals and celebrations and nonsense poems. There are also teaching ideas too.

World Stories

World Stories is a growing collection of stories from around the World. The collection includes retold traditional tales and new short stories in the 21 languages most spoken by UK children. Read or listen to the stories.

BBC Teach

BBC Teach features more than 1500 video clips from across 22 subjects to support teachers around the UK - completely free.

ReadwithPhonics.com

A phonics resource which is totally free for schools and for an unlimited amount of users. This schools version has all the sounds unlocked so teachers can pick and choose each sound depending on which sound you are working on.

BookTrust

BookTrust is the UK's largest children's reading charity and they provide free books, resources and support to promote reading. Well worth a visit.

Google Slides

Create presentations with Google Slides. Also lends itself to collaborative work and making ebooks.

Phonics Songs

Catchy animated phonics songs for both revising and teaching letter-sounds from Teaching Your Monster to Read.

Poetryline

Lots of resources to support the teaching of poetry in primary schools including excellent videos where famous poets share their top tips with young poets.

Points of View Newspaper Report

Witnesses to accidents can see different things. Read and listen to two witness reports of a skateboarding accident, and learn about how journalists structure newspaper reports and use verbs, adverbial phrases and pronouns to create an effect.

Creepy Verbs and Adverbs in Super Stories

Transform a boring horror story into a bestseller by selecting effective verbs and adverbs to increase its impact and make it more exciting. Select illustrations that highlight the horror as the story of the Sea Cave unfolds.