The Literacy Shed
The Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources with teaching ideas suitable for use in the primary classroom. There are some fabulous animations to use as stimulus for writing.
World Stories
World Stories is a growing collection of stories from around the World. The collection includes retold traditional tales and new short stories in the 21 languages most spoken by UK children. Read or listen to the stories.
BBC Teach
BBC Teach features more than 1500 video clips from across 22 subjects to support teachers around the UK - completely free.
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.
Google Slides
Create presentations with Google Slides. Also lends itself to collaborative work and making ebooks.
Premier League Primary Stars
Premier League Primary Stars uses the inspiration and fun of sport to connect pupils’ learning to the world around them. Find easy-to-use resources for your pupils for literacy, maths, PE and PSHE.
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.
Ssssssnake Hotel
A great blog with lots of fabulous teaching ideas for reading/writing/performing poetry.
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.
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.
