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Literacy KS 1 & 2

General

General

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/site/literacy.shtml BBC Primary Literacy activities

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/ Literacy activities from Primary Resources

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=40 Key Sage 1 Literacy activities from Topmarks

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=46 Key Sage 2 Literacy activities from Topmarks

http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/Curriculum/Literacy.htm Literacy resources and links from Coxhoe Primary

http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/ All sorts of interactive activities for Literacy

http://www.northwood.org.uk/literacy.htm Literacy activities including spelling  

http://www.quoteland.com/ Famous quotations 

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ The Children’s Literature Web Guide

http://www.biblomania.com/ Hundreds of searchable full text works of classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries - excellent resource

Writers and Writing, Harry Potter, Shakespeare

Writers and Writing

http://www.kidsreads.com/ All about books

http://www.roalddahl.com/ The official Roald Dahl website

http://www.narnia.com find out all about the world of the Narnia books

http://www.sebastianswan.org.uk/ Sebastian Swan Infant Explorer

http://www.peterrabbit.co.uk/ The interactive site of the books of Beatrix Potter

http://www.anholt.co.uk/ Catherine and Laurence Anholt website

http://www.lynnechapman.co.uk/ Lynn Chapman's website

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/paulandemmarogers/ Paul and Emma Rogers' website

http://www.annefine.co.uk/ Anne Fine's website

http://www.legendworld.co.uk/ The website of Dragon sightings, read or report about them

http://www.myhomelibrary.org 'My Home Library' - download lots of different bookplates from Anne Fine

Harry Potter

http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/ Harry Potter - the official book site

http://harrypotter.warnerbros.com/ Harry Potter - the official film site (opens in new window)

http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/harrypotter/ More Harry Potter from Bloomsbury books

http://www.harrypotterguide.co.uk/ Unofficial Harry Potter Guide

http://www.kidsreads.com/harrypotter/ Information and fun about Harry Potter

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/  The Harry Potter Lexicon - reference

Shakespeare

http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/ The complete works of Shakespeare with search

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/ Another complete works of Shakespeare

http://www.folger.edu/ Folger Shakespeare

http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/ Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Reviewing Books, Playing with Words, Poetry

Reviewing Books

http://www.kidsatrandomhouse.co.uk/ Kids at Random House, book reviews and more

http://www.achuka.co.uk Lots about books

The Fun Fiction Factory - writing is fun and very useful too! On this blog you can have a go at writing stories and poems for other people to read. So come on you budding authors get blogging! http://funfiction.edublogs.org/
(If you can't watch the videos on the pages, then check out the videos on the blogroll)

Playing with Words

http://www.wordcentral.com/ Word Central, exploring words

http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/ Automatically creates anagrams

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ Wacky stories – fill in the gaps

Poetry

http://www.gigglepoetry.com/ Fun with Poetry

http://poetryzone.co.uk/  Poetry Zone - lots of poems, ideas and links to poetry websites

http://www.pmpoetry.com/ Huge collection of links to poetry websites

http://www.pottypoets.com/ A collection of 'Potty Poetry'!

Aimed at Teachers

Aimed at Teachers

http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ - Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.

http://www.worksheetgenius.com Create free, randomizable maths and literacy worksheets

http://www.poetryclass.net/ Lessons and resources from The Poetry Society

http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/ The Poetry Society - information about poetry