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.
Adjective Detective
A super site which explains what adjectives are. Great on an interactive whiteboard and best viewed in full-screen mode. Test your knowledge of adjectives on the quiz and game.
Word Frog
Match antonyms, synonyms and homonyms in this language arts game.
Shark Numbers
A hundreds, tens and units maths game. Count carefully otherwise the shark will bite your boat.
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.
Bud's Number Garden
Join Bud the bee to explore his magical garden and practise recognising numbers, counting, sequencing and much more! How many creepy crawlies are hiding in the leaf pile? How many eggs are left to hatch?
Helicopter Rescue
A game which focuses on numbers from up to 10, to up to 100. There are four game modes: Find a Number, Find the Number Between and Count On and Count Back. The counting on and back games reinforce the vocabulary of addition and subtraction.
Compare Numbers on a Number Line
Compare numbers on two different number lines and decide which is bigger. A great game to get children thinking about reading varying scales. Useful teaching resource on an interactive whiteboard.
Num Tanga Junior
Match the pairs which could be numerals, numbers as words, ten frames, base ten or fingers on hands. There are different levels the highest of which goes up to 20.
Add and Subtract on a Number Line
Try adding and subtracting near multiples on a number line. Develop mental methods of addition and subtraction by adding and subtracting a multiple of 10 or 100, and then adjusting. Works well on IWB.
