Ssssssnake Hotel
A great blog with lots of fabulous teaching ideas for reading/writing/performing poetry.
Epic
Epic is a digital reading platform for children up to the age of 12. It has a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books from 250+ of the world’s best publishers. A subscription site.
The Children's Poetry Archive
A superb selection of poems arranged by themes, style or author. You can listen to an audio track of each poem being read by the author.
Look, Cover, Write, Check
A brilliant version of the spelling site where you can test yourself on high frequency words to test your knowledge.
Spooky Spellings
This spelling game uses the words listed in the UK National Curriculum as being 'Common Exception Words' or tricky words.
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.
Teach Your Monster to Read
A free game for young children to practise the first steps of reading. The game is built on the principles of synthetic phonics and follows the teaching sequence of the Letters and Sounds programme.
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.
Missing Pop Star Puzzle
Work out what happened to the missing celebrity and write a newspaper article about the event. Lots of tips on improving your writing style.
Spell Block Academy
A fun spelling game with a wizard theme. Use the provided words or create your own spelling list of words in the Spells book.
