The First 1000 Most Commonly Used English Words
A simple site which has a list of the first thousand commonly used words arranged in order of common usage. If you are trying to improve your spelling skills it is a useful reference tool.
Word Collapse
A clever word game which requires logical thinking to find the solutions.
Chinese Dragon Game
Chinese Dragon Game is an ordering and sequencing numbers game based on the Chinese New Year dragon theme.
English Writing Skills for ESL Learners
This is the English Club English writing site for ESL students. It looks at the letters of the alphabet, when to use capital letters and some spelling rules.
English Heritage Teaching and Learning
Find out about how you can take your class to over 400 English Heritage sites for free!
Balloon Phonics
Balloon Phonics is a game which focuses on three letter words (cvc). There are three game modes: Initial sounds, Middle sounds and End sounds. Appropriate for Phase 2 Letters and Sounds.
EdWordle
Wordle is a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. It gives more prominence to words that appear more frequently. You can tweak the clouds with different fonts, layouts and colour schemes. Print out your clouds.
Teaching English
Free classroom materials including short activities to full lesson plans, for teaching kids and adults. There are also articles on teaching English, and free teacher development and teacher training materials.
Word Frog
Match antonyms, synonyms and homonyms in this language arts game.
Sentence Doctor
Something is wrong with the sentences in this game. Can you spot the problems?