Words for Life

Words for Life’s aim is to inspire more people to read, more regularly, for both pleasure and personal advancement. Useful booklists especially chosen to appeal to less confident readers. Free resources matched to books.

3-11 year olds

Parents

Guide to Starting Secondary School

Help your child to make a confident transition to secondary school by Topmarks.

7-14 year olds

Parents

Tudor Clothing from Tudor Paintings

Examine Tudor paintings closely to gain an insight into Tudor life and costume.

9-14 year olds

Pupils

Number Spinners

This resource from Mathsframe generates random numbers using ‘spinners’ with 3, 4, 5 or 6 sides. Up to three spinners can be used in many ways, such as generating addition, multiplication or up to three digit numbers.

5-11 year olds

Teachers

Number Rack

A fantastic abacus type resource of moveable, coloured beads that encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens. It can help children to explore a variety of addition and subtraction strategies. Great IWB teaching tool.

5-9 year olds

Teachers, Pupils

Countdown

A great mental maths challenge where you need to use the numbers available and the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) to hit the target. The game does not check your solution. Works well on IWB.

7-14 year olds

Teachers, Pupils

Brackets - Order of Operations

Use a calculator to carry out calculations with more than one step using brackets. Suitable for use on an interactive whiteboard.

11-14 year olds

Teachers

Poop Deck Pirates

A 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.

5-7 year olds

Pupils

Ten Frame Modeller

The Ten Frame Modeller is a useful teaching tool to help children visualise numbers within 10 and also 20. It can be used for counting, addition, subtraction and missing number problems.

4-6 year olds

Pupils

Part-Part-Whole

This teaching tool is useful for demonstrating 'Part-Part-Whole Model' for addition and subtraction particularly on an interactive whiteboard. Select which manipulatives you want to use and easily change your choice by pressing the 'change' button.

6-7 year olds

Teachers