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Super Stories - Nouns and Adjectives

A game that can help you to improve your use of nouns and adjectives. You get to be an editor who improves a fairly dull story into a bestselling horror story. Select great nouns, adjectives and illustrations to improve the story's impact.

7-11 year olds
Pupils

Ali and the Magic Carpet

Follow Ali on his magic carpet journey to different parts of the world! A delightful animated story.

3-5 year olds
Pupils

The Gingerbread Man

Read the sad story of the Gingerbread Man. It has colourful illustrations and works well on an interactive whiteboard. The story can be used in the literacy lessons to demonstrate repetitive style of text.

4-8 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

Minus Miners

Use your knowledge of negative numbers to mine resources and save your village.

11-14 year olds
Pupils

20 Bead Rekenrek

A great teaching tool for helping young children to understand numbers and learn strategies for addition and subtraction, doubling and halving.

5-7 year olds
Pupils

Paint the Squares

There are various sized interactive grids up to 120, all of which are configurable. They include a regular 100 square, a negative numbers grid, decimal numbers and puzzles. Ideal for starter or plenary activity.

5-11 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Jack and the Beanstalk

An animated story of the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk in short video clips from the BBC.

5-7 year olds
Pupils

Oh No, George!

Read along with this amusing story of George the dog who wants to be good but finds it very difficult.

3-5 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Higher and Lower

How good are you at ordering numbers? Lots of examples to try from simple ordering numbers to 10 to fractions, decimals or negative and positive numbers.

3-11 year olds
Teachers, Pupils
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