Drama in Education
A first class site on drama in the Primary School. It has excellent suggestions for drama activities from Early Years upwards, and excellent advice on how to develop a Primary Drama Syllabus in your school.
Writing Tips: Essay Builder
Good advice here for improving your essay writing techniques.
The Gingerbread Man
Read the sad story of the Gingerbread Man. It has colourful illustrations and works well on an interactive whiteboard. The story can be used in the literacy lessons to demonstrate repetitive style of text.
The National Literacy Trust
The Trust maintains an online database, and provides information and support to all those interested in enhancing literacy standards. It organises seminars and conferences.
Oxford Reading Tree
Details of Oxford Reading Tree resources together with free teacher support materials.
Representative Poetry On-line
Electronic poetry site indexed by name of poet, titles, first lines and by criticism on poetry.
Of Mice and Men Student Study Guide
Six learner guides covering the plot, themes, characters, form, structure and language, context and sample exam question with tips on how to approach it.
To Kill a Mockingbird Study Guide
A literacture study guide which examines the plot summary and analysis, themes, quotes, characters and more.
Encylopedia Mythica
Alphabetically arranged information on myths and legends from a wide range of different ancient cultures.
My Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Here are pages on Mary Shelley's life, family, friends and novels. There is a summary of Frankenstein, a description of the main characters, the full text and an explanation of the subtitle 'The Modern Prometheus'.
