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Last updated: 17/10/08

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(All the literacy on The Lighthouse for Education including latest Literacy News)

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General

  1. http://www.bibliomania.com/ (A good site for literature – links to complete works of fiction/non-fiction and searches these)
  2. http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/ (Literacy sites)
  3. http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/%7Ejlynch/Lit/ (Literacy sites)
  4. http://www.bartleby.com/quotations/ (Famous quotations)
  5. http://www.bartleby.com/ (Literature, reference and verse)
  6. 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.

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Teachers' Resources

  1. Year 9 booster kits from the Key Stage 3 National Strategy
  2. http://www.teachit.co.uk/ (English Teaching Online - Ideas and resources for KS3 and above. Comprehensions and activities for texts and helpful planning documents.)
  3. http://www.bartleby.com/ (Free texts on line for KS3 and 4)
  4. http://home.pacific.net.au/~greg.hub/engpage.html (Ideas, courses and worksheets for KS3 and 4)
  5. http://www.english-teaching.co.uk/ (Subscription only resources for English teaching Key Stages 3 and above. Lesson plans and recourses for all key stages)
  6. http://www.english-to-go.com/ ( Photocopiable Lessons from Reuters News Stories - you need to become a member. If you register as a guest member this is free)

Books and Stories

  1. http://place.scholastic.com/goosebumps/ (Goosebumps)
  2. http://www.roalddahl.com/ (The official Roald Dahl web site)
  3. http://www.narnia.com (find out all about the world of the Narnia books)
  4. http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/ (Sherlock Holmes)
  5. http://www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk/ ( The Sherlock Holmes Museum)
  6. http://www.annefine.co.uk/ (Anne Fine's web site)
  7. http://www.myhomelibrary.org ('My Home Library' - download lots of different bookplates)

Book Reviews

  1. http://www.kidsatrandomhouse.co.uk/ (Book Reviews and more about books)
  2. http://www.achuka.co.uk (Book Reviews and more about books)

Poetry

  1. http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/%7Etpl/lit/poetry.html (Enormous list of peotry web sites)
  2. http://www.pmpoetry.com/ (List of poetry web sites)
  3. http://www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk/index2.htm (Poetry Zone - lots of poems, ideas and links to poets web sites)
  4. http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/ (The Poetry Society - information about poetry)
  5. http://www.poetryclass.net/ (A joint venture between the Poetry Society and the DfES to provide online workshops to help the teaching of poetry)
  6. http://www.pottypoets.com/ (A collection of 'Potty Poetry'!)
  7. http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/intro/ (WW1 poetry)
  8. http://www.pitt.edu/~pugachev/greatwar/ww1.html (WW1 poetry)

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Harry Potter

  1. http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/home.asp (Harry Potter - the official site)
  2. http://harrypotter.warnerbros.com/ (Harry Potter - the official film site)
  3. http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/harrypotter/ (More Harry Potter from Bloomsbury books)
  4. http://www.harrypotterguide.co.uk/ (The unofficial Harry Potter site)
  5. http://www.harrypotterfans.net/potterica/ (Encyclopedia for Harry Potter)
  6. http://www.kidsreads.com/harrypotter/ (Information about Harry Potter)
  7. http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/ (The Harry Potter Lexicon - reference)

Shakespeare

  1. http://www.folger.edu/education/teaching.htm (For everything Shakespeare including lesson plans!)
  2. http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/ (The complete works of Shakespeare)
  3. http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare
    /test.html
    (Search the works of Shakespeare)

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Words

  1. http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html (Make anagrams)

Ideas

  1. http://www.cricksoft.com/ (Ideas & downloads for Clicker 3, 4 and Word Bar)

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Poetry
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Shakespeare
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