The Literacy Shed

The Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources with teaching ideas suitable for use in the primary classroom. There are some fabulous animations to use as stimulus for writing.

Visual Dictionary Online

The dictionary with a new point of view. Explore the 15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images and see words like never before.

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.

FindMeWords

Findmewords is the first dictionary to collect more than 450,000 words in English and classify them to offer users all kinds of dictionaries and search tools to find the word they are looking for such as rhyming, synonyms, antonyms and more.

Toppsta

A great site if you're wanting to choose books for children. All the reviews are organised by the age of the child, so you can see exactly which books children are enjoying at every age between 0 and 12

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.