Foundation - Key Stage 1 - Key Stage 2
Literacy - Foundation
Bobinogs
Activities providing lots of language opportunities. There is a Bobinogs story too.
Nursery Rhymes
Children can sing along with the animated nursery rhymes and then try the activities based on the characters and events that they have heard.
Traditional and Fantasy Stories
Delightful traditional stories such as Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and more.
Literacy - Key Stage 1
English Alphabet
A good demonstration tool to show how letters should be formed and the sounds they make. Each letter is illustrated with a picture which begins with the sound.
The Magic Key
Literacy games set around Oxford Reading Tree characters. Useful for teaching capital letters and full stops.
Word Play
An amusing way to introduce children to verbs. Children can see words behave like their meanings. There are a total of 25 words.
Capital Letters and Full Stops
A resource that introduces the idea of capital letters and full stops in sentences. Children can practise matching lower case letters with capitals and teachers can discuss where capital letters are required.
Lists and Instructions
Interactive activities on writing lists and instructions. Children need to think about the order for carrying out familiar tasks. They can also write and print their own instructions.
Weather
A geography site, but the first activity is literacy based. It looks at adjectives which describe the weather.
Digby Mole's Word Games
Games where children need to match initial consonant clusters and end clusters. There are three levels of difficulty.
Look, say, cover, type & check
An adaptable spelling tool for word level work. It is simple to input the words you want to focus on.
Starfall - Learn to Read
There are good quality games and animated stories which children can interact with. The children can click on words to see what they say. Excellent for learning the sounds the letters make.
Storybook Web
Children will love the interactive activities based round the books of popular authors. They can watch and listen to them reading excerpts from their stories and discussing their writing.
Traditional and Fantasy Stories
Delightful traditional stories such as Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and more. Good for comparing different writing styles.
The Gingerbread Man
We have produced this illustrated traditional story which can be used to demonstrate repetitive texts in the shared reading part of literacy hour.
Guided Reading and Reading Games with Roy the Zebra
A wonderful guided reading story with accompanying printable worksheets and guided reading discussion sheets. There are 80 interactive literacy games, stories and songs for use in school or at home. Well worth a look!
Alphabetical Order
See if you can put words into alphabetical order on this colourful Flash site.
Alphabetical Order 2
A drag and drop activity where you put words into alphabetical order. Suitable for ages 6 to 8.
Types of Sentence
An interactive activity with Ed the owl who will help you to know different types of sentences and the punctuation that you need to go with them. It has a multiple choice quiz.
Literacy - Key Stage 2
Using Similies to Enhance Writing Skills
A teaching aid to help children understand the use of similies in their writing. There is an option to download the teaching pack to your hard drive.
Sentence Detectives
A useful site for teaching basic punctuation marks such as question marks, exclamation marks and full stops. Includes a download option.
Don't Use Said
A great teaching resource for looking at alternatives to the word 'said' in written work.
Gracie Grammar
A PowerPoint presentation to reinforce the learning of verbs, nouns and adjectives. To save this permanently to your hard drive right click on the link and 'Save as'.
Choosing Adjectives
A drag and drop activity where you have to drag suitable adjectives into the spaces in a text. It is intended as a teaching tool as there is no checking facility.
Apostrophes
Activities which demonstrate the use of the apostrophe. It helps children understand the use of apostrophes for contractions and possession.
Match the Contraction
Help your pupils understand the use of apostrophes in contractions using this simple drag and drop activity.
Stories from the Web
Excellent if you want to look at book blurbs and reviews. Designed promote reading for 8 to 11 year olds. There are interviews with authors, some on video.
Spin to Win!
Explore how many different words you can make by changing the prefixes and suffixes in this game.
Writing Instructions
Aimed at year 3 pupils, this website explores the features of written instructions. It looks at the use of time words to show the order and of verbs. Super illustrations.
Using Verbs in Poetry
A lesson which looks at how verbs can add dramatic interest to poems. | 
