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Reading |
| Daffyd Drops a Goal - Online Poem with comprehension questions to try. |
Morals and Fables - Choose to Open to read these morals and fables. |
Stories from Rainbow Edge - Key Stage 1 and Lower Key Stage 2 Reading Activities. |
BBC Revisewise - Reading activities and a great variety of texts. |
Giggle Poetry - Great poems to read and rate!  |
Macbeth Quiz - Test your knowledge of this classic Shakespeare tragedy. |
Reading Rainbow - American site designed to encourage a love of reading! Games and activities. |
Children's Reading Room - Texts to read (ages 3 to 9) |
| Starfall - A superb site! Covering learning to read to understanding complex texts. |
Greek Myths - From Perseus to Eurydice... read myths and legends here! |
Children's Newspaper - Online newspaper designed for children to read. |
Coxhoe School - Loads of other reading resources. |
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Writing - Fiction |
| Enchanted Learning - Great site with a dictionary to help you improve your word choice. |
Dmoz - A really good site to help you with all aspects of your writing. |
Revisewise - The BBC site will help you with planning elements of your story. |
Woodlands - The Literacy pages from this great site. |
| Revisewise Game - A great game to help you improve your writing. |
English Online- More games to help you try and improve all areas of your writing. |
Skills Wise - Site to help you with your sentences and grammar in your writing. |
Quia - Another good site to help you with your English. |
| Fun with Poetry Presentation - Have a look at this poem by Rebecca in 6H, presented in Photo Story. Why not try the idea for yourself! |
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Writing - Non-Fiction |
| SGFL - Exampls of non-fiction writing written by children for children. |
Knowledge Hounds - Useful tips and pointers to help with all of your non-fiction writing. |
Teach It - Tips and resources on planning an excellent Newspaper report. |
Writing Help - Great site to help you with writing a letter. |
| Features of a Recount - A simple page listing features of a recount and how to write one. |
Introduction to Non-Fiction - A site which talks about the features of various types of non-fiction texts. |
Headline History - A superb site with links to History topics - writing newspapers! |
Writing Instructions - Great site with tips on writing instructional texts. |
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Punctuation - Full-Stops and Capital Letters |
| The Magic Key - A great BBC game to help you practise using full-stops. |
Buzzin.net - Everything you need to know about using full-stops! |
Mantex - How to use full-stops! |
Roy the Zebra - Very basic games for practising using full-stops! |
| The British Council - Loads of information about using Capital Letters! |
Lug and the Giant Stork - A great capital letters game from the BBC. |
Practise - A quick game to practise using capitals for proper nouns. |
Buzzin.net (Again!) - Loads of stuff on capitals including a test! |
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Punctuation - Using Speech Marks |
| Speech Marks Quiz - Great chance to practise using speech marks! |
Speech Marks PowerPoint - A great PowerPoint presentation about using Speech Marks. |
Odysseus and the Cyclops - Great site about using speech marks! |
Speech Marks Worksheets - Print off your own sheets here! |
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Punctuation - Apostrophes |
| BBC Skillswise- Great games to help you practise using apostrophes. |
Eats,Shoots and Leaves - A great punctuation game based on the book! Starts with apostrophes! |
Primary Resources - A great apostrophe quiz to complete online! |
Apostrophe Activitities - An intro to apostrophes followed by a game! |
| Apostrophe Trivia - Another good game to practise using apostrophes. |
Apostrophe Info - A great site with lots of information about using the apostrophe. |
How Not to Use an Apostrophe - a good site with examples of apostrophe misuse! |
Writing Lab - A guide to using the apostrophe. |
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Punctuation - Commas |
| Newsround - Site aimed at parents with worksheets and activities for improving comma use. |
BBC Skillswise - Aimed at adults but with loads for children to do too! |
Learn English - Great game with commas and other punctuation marks included! |
Comma Confusion - A great game to practise using commas in sentences. |
