Teaching Library

Teaching Ideas has excellent free teaching suggestions and lesson resources linked to a selection of children's books and literature.

5-11 year olds

Teachers

Poetryclass

Poetryclass can help teachers wanting to bring poetry alive in the classroom. It has good ideas for teaching poetry.

7-16 year olds

Teachers

The Wind in the Willows

Listen to The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham told in ten episodes by Bernard Cribbins. Each episode is accompanied by a short synopsis and a printable transcript, for the children to follow. There are follow-up ideas for teachers.

8-10 year olds

Pupils

Online Stories

Online stories on Vimeo and in PowerPoint.

4-6 year olds

Teachers, Pupils, Parents

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.

3-18 year olds

Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Oak National Academy

Homeschooling? Here are 10,000 free video lessons, resources and activities, covering most subjects, from Reception to Year 11.

5-16 year olds

Teachers, Parents

Creative Writing Tasks

Spin the wheel to generate an interesting creative writing task.

7-11 year olds

Teachers, Pupils

Creative Writing Ideas

Some excellent ideas to use as a stimulus for creative writing.

7-11 year olds

Teachers, Pupils

CBeebies Stories

A range of animated stories from the BBC selected from their shows for young children.

3-7 year olds

Pupils, Parents

Grammar Slammer

Rules and tips to help you write your best. Glossary of grammatical terms.

11-16 year olds

Teachers, Pupils