Puffin Books for Children
Popular titles from Puffin sortable by age group, genre, fiction or non-fiction.
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.
World Book Day
Packed with teaching resources, information, ideas and inspiration you’ll find everything here to make your World Book Day celebrations a success and encourage reading for pleasure all year round.
Domesday Book
The BBC have compiled information on how and why our earliest public record, the Domesday Book, was written.
News for Your Classroom
A wonderful site with news stories for children and young people. It is American but it has global stories which could be used as information texts in literacy lessons.
Teaching Library
Teaching Ideas has excellent free teaching suggestions and lesson resources linked to a selection of children's books and literature.
DK Find Out
A fantastic primary encyclopedia type site from Dorling Kindersley. Find out about dinosaurs, space, animals, nature and more. Fun learning activities for kids with videos, quizzes and galleries.
Lovereading4kids
Lovereading4kids is a book website for parents and children to help make book choices easier. You can download an extract from each book. Each book has a synopsis and reviews.
Our Animals
A wonderful digital book about Australian animals which makes a super non-fiction text. It also includes informative videos about the animals which show how they live in the wild.
The Reader Teacher
This site features the great reads for children, teachers, schools and parents to choose from.