| The Home of Sebastian Swan |
| A big book for key stage 1 (or beyond?) |
| http://www.sebastianswan.org.uk/index.html
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| The BBC |
| http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/schools.shtml |
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| MAPE |
| This site has many resources and activities for all curriculum areas.
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| http://www.mape.org.uk/ |
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| Storybook website |
| A site based on popular children’s stories by authors Scoular Anderson, Debi
Gliori, Mairi Hedderwick and Frank Rodgers for ages 5-8. The site contains a
range of interactive activities s well as audio and video of the authors talking
about their books. |
| http://www.ltscotland.com/storybook/#
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| Sutton on Sea primary school |
| Home page>Playground>Learning Zone>Story Starts, |
| http://www.sutton.lincs.sch.uk/
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| The Year of Reading |
| http://www.yearofreading.org.uk/ |
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| Sainsbury's Virtual Museum |
| Resources and notes for literacy activities. |
| http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/museum/museum.htm |
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| For shared reading … |
| http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org/index.htm |
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| Discloze |
| Text disclosure program to download |
| http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/index.htm |
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| Hardspell |
| Test your spelling |
| http://www.bbc.co.uk/hardspell/
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| Titch |
| (a page to support his TV program) there is an interesting page on making
the TV program for older children. |
| http://www.titch.net/ |
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| Puffin book club |
| Go to the living room for links to authors. |
| http://www.puffin.co.uk/ |
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| Anne Frank |
| An essential site for any child reading the diary. Educational activities
should be on-line soon. |
| http://www.annefrank.com/ |
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| The Dr Seuss site |
| http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/ |
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| Eric Carle |
| An author -Children can read, play with and even e-mail the author of The
Very Hungry Caterpillar. |
| http://www.eric-carle.com/ |
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| Treasure Island |
| A superb site - well almost - lots here for children to reference while
reading this classic. |
| http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/treasure/ |
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| Alice in Wonderland |
| An Interactive Adventure! There's a whole terms work here. Great book, great
site. |
| http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/wonderland/index.htm |
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| Goosebumps |
| If you're into Goosebumps, you'll love this. A good, interactive site.
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| http://www.scholastic.com/goosebumps/ |
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| Fables |
| A large site, full of fables and the associated morals. |
| http://www.aesopfables.com/ |
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| Northumberland |
| http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/resources.html |
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| Lancashire Textease examples |
| http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/
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| Clicker |
| Clicker grids to download and support information. |
| http://www.cricksoft.com/ |
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| Sherston |
| http://www.sherston.com |
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| Oxford Reading Tree |
| http://www.oup.co.uk/oxed/primary/ort/ |
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| The Dorling Kindersley site |
| http://www.dk.com |
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| Penguin |
| On line reviews, booklists and other resources for teachers and children.
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| http://www.penguin.co.uk |
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| Waterstones Book shop |
| http://www.waterstones.co.uk/ |
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| Poetry writers |
| This is a great resource for poetry writers; I particularly like the e-mail
idea. |
| http://www.fernhse.demon.co.uk/eastword/ |
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| Poetry Society |
| Interactive word playground, from the Poetry Society. The Poetry Society has
an outstanding reputation for its exciting and innovative education work. Take a
look at what if offers |
| http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/education/edindex.htm
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| John Hegley |
| Go to Net Words where there are poems from each of his books and the
introduction has John reading |
| http://www.johnhegley.co.uk/networds/index.htm |
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| Poetry Class |
| The Poetry Society and the DfES join forces to take the fear out of teaching
poetry. |
| http://www.poetryclass.net/intro.htm |
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| Children's writing |
| Lots of children's writing and some interesting e-mail ideas. |
| http://www.kidnews.com |
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| Children's Storybooks Online |
| Virtual literature - great stuff too - divided into different age groups -
this site is definitely worth including in your Favourites folder.
http://www.magickeys.com/books/count/page8.html - this is a counting activity /
story – lovely. |
| http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html |
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| Stories from the Web |
| From Birmingham libraries - a site for 8-11 year olds. Read stories, e-mail
authers and write reviews |
| http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org/index.htm |
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| Dictionary |
| http://www.yourdictionary.com/ |
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| Links to dictionaries and thesaurus |
| http://www.thesaurus.com/ |
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| Screen reader |
| Proof read text by listening |
| http://www.readplease.com |
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| Colins Word Wizard |
| Lists of ites containnig good information on specific subjects |
| http://www.collins.co.uk/Default.aspx?Page=347 |
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| Writers Toolkit |
| Looks at the different parts of stories and how they are put together. Clips
of authors talking about how they write stories. |
| http://www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/B/bookbox/writerstoolkit/home.htm
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