| Handwriting |
Teaching Handwriting
This is a great website that has lots of ideas for helping develop handwriting. It covers everything from core strength, correctly sitting position to forming letters. |
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| Reading |
Love Reading 4 Kids
Superb website for people who want to buy books for children (with lots of guidance about the best books for chidlren of all ages).
Registered members can access these unique site features FREE:
<> Free Opening Extract of every featured book
<> Unique Author Like-for-Like recommendations
<> Exclusive book reviews by Julia Eccleshare
<> Regular Email Newsletters, offers and competitions
<> At least 25% discount on every featured book
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| Speaking and Listening |
Racing to English
This website has lots of downloadable games and resources for developing speaking and listening skills. It is designed to help develop language skills for children who speak English as an additional lanuage but has great ideas for developing any language skills! |
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| Phonics |
www.phonicsplay.co.uk
Phonics games for Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1. For children in foundation try the games in Phase 2-4, Year 1 try games in phase 2-5 and Year 2 anything up to Phase 6. They all match up with the phases taught in letters and sounds during school time. |
www.ictgames.com
KS1 literacy games to support phonic knowledge. Segmenting games are to support children's spellings and blending games are to support childrens reading. |
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize
Wild West Phonics, choose from medium, hard and extra hard levels. |
http://www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/demo/magnets.htm NEW
Online magnetic letters recources, try practising your spellings with them or maybe make up a short story? |
http://www.letters-and-sounds.com NEW
Free resources to print and games to play with you children. |
http://www.familylearning.org.uk/phonics_games.html NEW
This website has lots of links to internet games |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml NEW
Try out these games and printable activities to higher level phonics and spelling patterns/rules |
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| Stories, Poetry and Games |
www.artisancam.org.uk
Comic maker! Try out your own superhero characters and settings and then decide what missions they go on as you build up your own comics. |
www.cool-reads.co.uk
Book reviews for KS2 children. Books recommended by children for children. |
www.gigglepoetry.com
Rate poems, step by step guides how to write poems, ask the author. Lots of poems for children to read and enjoy. |
www.netrover.com/
Stories, games and challenges |
www.poetryarchive.org/childrens archive/home.do
Poems, quizzes and puzzles. Send in your own poems, search for a poem and ask poets questions. |
www.roaldahl.com
Quizzes, prompts for story writing, word, sentence and story writing activities and information about the author. |
www.stormbreaker.com
Character profiles, gallery of clips from the film, movie news and behind the scenes information. |
www.teachingideas.co.uk
Great challenges, puzzles and ideas from nursery to Y6. |
