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Help a Hedgehog

A super read the word challenge game which can help you with learning to read. Read as many words as you can that are matched to Letters and Sounds Phases 2 and 3 or enter your own words.The game helps with decoding and blending words skills.

5-6 year olds
Pupils

Wonderful Words, Creative Stories about Space

Improve two simple sentences by adding descriptive words. Observe how your choices affect the animated images. Use your sentences as inspiration for a story about space. A good site for demonstrating how to write more interesting sentences.

7-9 year olds
Pupils

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.

14-16 year olds
Pupils

English Folk Dance and Song Resource Bank

Free online folk learning resources now available for teachers at all key stages as English Folk Dance and Song Society. Resources are suitable for use in formal and informal settings.

5-18 year olds
Teachers

Skillswise Word Grammar

Games, short videos and quizzes from the BBC to help adults improve their knowledge of parts of speech such as nouns, adjectives and the like. The games are useful for children too.

7-16 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Tips on doing a book review

Just what the title says. This step-by-step guide will help you know what to include when you write a book review.

5-7 year olds
Pupils

The Alphabet Song

A catchy song which can help you learn the order of the letters of the alphabet. It uses capital letters rather than lower case letters.

5-7 year olds
Pupils

Visuwords

A graphical dictionary and thesaurus which is a great teaching aid on an interactive whiteboard if you are encouraging children to think of alternative words in their creative writing.

7-18 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Storynory

Free audio books, including classic fairy tales, myths, verse, Bible stories and original stories for children. Download mp3 files, burn to CD, subscribe to kids' podcast. The only downside is that there is advertising at the end of the stories.

5-11 year olds
Pupils

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

An animated story of the traditional story of the Three Bears. There is a sequencing activity to print out to go with the story.

3-7 year olds
Pupils
Swallowtail Social - Social media training for small businesses