www.englishbiz.co.uk
A straightforward site which focuses on helping you to achieve higher grades in English and English Literature GCSE exams. You are also invited to send in questions.
The Royal Mint Teaching Resources
Explore the world of coins, their history, design and manufactures. Each lesson pack, designed for classrooms in England and Wales, comes complete with teachers’ notes, lesson plans, fact files, worksheets and whiteboard resource.
Reading Scales
This website has activities involving reading scales. There are six levels of difficulty and the hardest include negative numbers and decimals. The scales include linear, thermometers and a variety of dials.
Number Line
An interactive number line to support the teaching of number and scales. Useful for teaching negative numbers. It has been designed for use on an interactive whiteboard.
Turning Man
Click on the turning man to see him make a quarter turn, half turn, three-quarters turn and whole turn. This resource is a useful teaching aid in full-screen mode, for demonstrating turns on an interactive whiteboard.
Guardian Teacher Network
Browse and use thousands of ready-made teaching resources for ages 4 - 18 years.
Suffix Factory
Designed to meet requirements of Phase 6 Letters and Sounds, this game covers doubling final consonants, dropping final e and changing final y when adding ed, er and ful.
Study Skills
Get advice on revision, essay writing, exam technique and more.
Poetry4Kids
Lots of poetry for children and good tips for writing poetry. Great for teaching ideas and Kenn Nesbitt is also available for school visits.
Grammar Monster
Do you know how to use semicolons, where to put apostrophes and when to use commas? There is an excellent section on punctuation and another on easily confused words.
