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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.

7-14 year olds
Teachers, Parents

Word Collapse

A clever word game which requires logical thinking to find the solutions.

8-12 year olds
Pupils

Chinese Dragon Game

Chinese Dragon Game is an ordering and sequencing numbers game based on the Chinese New Year dragon theme.

4-11 year olds
Pupils

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.

11-14 year olds
Pupils

English Heritage Teaching and Learning

Find out about how you can take your class to over 400 English Heritage sites for free!

7-14 year olds
Teachers

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.

4-6 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

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.

5-14 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

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.

5-16 year olds
Teachers

Word Frog

Match antonyms, synonyms and homonyms in this language arts game.

7-11 year olds
Pupils

Sentence Doctor

Something is wrong with the sentences in this game. Can you spot the problems?

7-9 year olds
Pupils
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