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BookTrust

BookTrust is the UK's largest children's reading charity and they provide free books, resources and support to promote reading. Well worth a visit.

0-14 year olds
Teachers, Parents

Google Slides

Create presentations with Google Slides. Also lends itself to collaborative work and making ebooks.

7-18 year olds
Pupils

Ssssssnake Hotel

A great blog with lots of fabulous teaching ideas for reading/writing/performing poetry.

7-11 year olds
Teachers

Aesop's Fables

Forty of Aesop's best-known fables are brought to life in adaptations for children. Each story is five minutes long and read by an all-star cast including Brenda Blethyn, Richard E Grant, Jane Horrocks and Alison Steadman.

5-9 year olds
Pupils

Epic

Epic is a digital reading platform for children up to the age of 12. It has a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books from 250+ of the world’s best publishers. A subscription site.

3-12 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

The Children's Poetry Archive

A superb selection of poems arranged by themes, style or author. You can listen to an audio track of each poem being read by the author.

5-11 year olds
Pupils

Look, Cover, Write, Check

A brilliant version of the spelling site where you can test yourself on high frequency words to test your knowledge.

5-11 year olds
Pupils

Spooky Spellings

This spelling game uses the words listed in the UK National Curriculum as being 'Common Exception Words' or tricky words.

5-11 year olds
Pupils

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.

3-11 year olds
Parents

Storyline Online

Delightful stories read by professional screen actors in America. The movies use the illustrations from the books. There are lots of choices each with an activity guide.

5-7 year olds
Pupils
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