VARIETY OF ENGLISH WEBSITES I HAVE FOUND, BEEN GIVEN AND COLLECTED.
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SurLaLune Fairy Tale pages
http://members.aol.com/surlalune/frytales/
Includes the tales, their histories, similar tales from other cultures, bibliographies, and other materials.
Little Red Riding Hood
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0333.html
Links to different versions of this famous fairy tale.
Internet Fairy Tale sites
http://www.belinus.co.uk/fairytales/Homeextra.htm
Links to a variety of sites, some suitable for use as Big Books.
Australian ‘Dreamtime’ legends
http://www.artistwd.com/joyzine/australia/dreaming/
Links to a number of stories, includes useful glossary of unusual words.
Book reviews
http://www.cool-reads.co.uk
Book reviews by children
Word level resources
Want to find some homophones? Look no further than http://www.cooper.com/homophonezone/
http://www.train.stockton.gov.uk/pages/viewpage.asp?uniqi...
Word and text level resources for KS1 and 2 to download. Textease, Word and Powerpoint activities.
Narrative Writing
http://kotn.ntu.ac.uk/
Ideas and resources to support narrative writing, from advice from authors to collaborative projects with other schools.
http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/
Site where children can publish their own stories. Emamples of stories written by children.
Erin's Site
http://www.cswnet.com/~erin/child.htm
Suitable for KS1/2 teachers, KS2 pupils
Traditional poems are included on this site, along with other less well known offerings, although illustrations are scarce. Need to be copied into a word processor and font size increased to make them easily readable with a class
Haiku
http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/
Suitable for KS2 teachers & pupils
A great many children love the challenge of writing haiku. This site defines the term, explains how to write it and provides masses of examples, both old and modern.
www.poeticexpressions.co.uk
Samples of poetic texts
http://www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk/index2.htm
Examples of children’s poems, author interviews, ideas for teaching poetry etc
Myths
http://www.mythweb.com/
Suitable for KS1/2 teachers
Satisfyingly, subjects include gods, heroes and teachers. The site is very strong on Greek myths and the pages for teachers have some good ideas for creative writing, DT and art.
Aesop's Fables
http://www.aesopfables.com
Suitable for KS1/2 teachers
Covering many of these famous fables, this site also provides lesson plans and other practical ideas.
Festivals and celebrations around the world
Global legends
http://204.98.17.1/lmc/myths.html
Suitable for KS 1/2 teachers
Links to sites about myths from the Greek, Mayan and Irish traditions, fairy and folk tales, Indo-European tales and special encyclopaedias.
http://www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/B/bookbox/hom...
Really superb site (not a download I'm afraid) but supporting Literacy. Video clips of authors discussing and explaining how to write a story. Really short snapshot of how Susan Price opens a story to 'hook' her reader for example.
Myths Index
http://www.mystical-www.co.uk/urbanidx.htm
Suitable for KS1/2 teachers, KS2 pupils
A variety of stories listed thematically. Plus, an investigation into the legend of King Arthur.
On line Big Books
http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/bigbooks/index.htm
Selection of big book stories for KS1 and 2
www.naturegrid.org.uk/infant/bigbook.html
(Sebastian the Swan)
www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/kids.htm
(Beartrix Potter stories)
http://www.kidcrosswords.com/kidreader/aesops_fables/aeso...
(Aesops fables)
http://www.kidcrosswords.com/kidreader/fisherman_and_his_...
(The fisherman and his wife)
http://www.sundhagen.com/babbooks/
(On-line stories for kids)
http://www.2simple.com/stories/
Collection of on-line stories to support KS1 History unit. Require shockwave.
http://tlfe.org.uk/clicker/flashhistoryks1/seaside.swf
Link to clicker book on Seaside holidays in the past
http://www.thelighthouseforeducation.co.uk/clicker/flashh...
Link to clicker book of a Simple Florence Story
http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/english/littleredship/t...
A series of activites and clipart to use with The Little Red Ship interactive stories. The stories are also available to download. Extra resources will be added to the site including a puppet theatre of the characters to use with the children
Text Level resources
Viking Quest
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/games/vikingquest/index.shtm...
Interactive story based on the Vikings
Fun for Kids
http://aatalbert.songbird.com/PapasPoems/
Suitable for KS1 teachers & parents
An extensive collection of poetry suitable for reading to infant and pre-school children. Being a US site, not all the poems are suitable, so check out those that work best with your class.
On-line materials
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/kidstopics_frame.html
Songs
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-songs-clothes.htm
Website KS2
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/lookcover/lookco...
IWB resources for primary – Look Cover Write, Check, See
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/
Old website
http://ambleweb.digitalbrain.com/ambleweb/frontpage/prima...
New address for Ambleside
http://www.sln.org.uk/english/Primary%20Pages/p71111.htm
New Primary Literacy objectives mapped out.
http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/math/index.php?cate...
New Primary Numeracy objectives mapped out
http://www.icteachers.co.uk/resources/resources_literacy....
Planning page for activities for Primary
http://www.icteachers.co.uk/resources/literacy/literacywe...
Great web page which is hyperlinked to many very useful Primary websites
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html
IWB resources for Primary
http://www.iwb.org.uk/
IWB activities for Primary
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/ict/ict.htm
Lots of primary resources
http://www.funbrain.com/teachers/index.html
Fun interactive games
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?s=literacy&a=k...
A portal to lots of very good interactive activities for Key Stage 2
http://www.teachingpets.co.uk/Literacy/Contents.htm
Useful resources for KS1 and KS2 for a range of subjects
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/index.asp
Lesson plan ideas
http://www.primaryideas.co.uk
Big Writing ideas
http://www.twentytwentyvision.org.uk
Ros Wilson’s Big Writing website
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/origami/fortunete...
How to make an origami fortune teller VCOP but multiple uses
www.fieryideas.com
Ros Wilson ideas for electronic downloads e.g Big Writing Games
http://www.instantdisplay.co.uk/free.htm
Silly Sentence openers amongst these displays for KS2 and KS1.
http://www.thepuncs.com/index.html
The Puncs a group of characters for each punctuation mark. Good idea but costs £4 could get students to invent their own.
http://www.readwritethink.org/
Place for some interactive tools and lesson plans.
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/acrostic/
Create an online acrostic poem, which encourages planning and then offers support with starting words. There is a word limit though.
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/diamante/
Diamante poems which recap synonyms, antonyms, adjectives and -ing words.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/index.asp?grade=1&strand=0&engagement=0&display.x=21&display.y=10
Lesson plan selector for KS2
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/index.asp?grade=1&strand=0&engagement=0&display.x=21&display.y=10
Online templates for weaker students for: Newspapers, brochures, booklets and flyers. Presentational features can be used.
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/
Quizes, games, interactive ideas
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-games-fun.htm
British Council, learning English great for EAL and weaker students.
http://www.teachers-take-away.co.uk/
Resources for display, but they cost £25 for the lot.
Website Key Stage 3 and why
www.simple.com
2simple Website for electronic resources e.g. 2simple 2connect
http://www.robertpowellpublications.com/interactive_FAQ_1...
Interactive games which include Question of, Blockbusters and Dominoes
http://aspirations.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/home.acds
- Good for First World War recruitment resources
www.rsc.org.uk
Royal Shakespeare Company
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/secondary/keystage3/subj...
RSC Audio of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/
Useful games and for revision
Website LEA
http://c9s.e2bn.net/e2bn/leas/c99/schools/c97/accounts/pn...
Cambridge Advisory Service website which has the MTP for each Year group.
http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/english/
Great for schemes of work
http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/nationalstrategy/literacy/inde...
Lancashire LEA website for Primary Literacy
http://www.dcseducation.org/v.asp?folderid=920&schoolid=&...
Devon Primary LEA for mixed years
http://www.norfolkesinet.org.uk/pages/viewpage.asp?uniqid...
Norfolk County Council – Thinking Schools for Thinking children, interesting ideas on learning, character, plot, genre. Resources available.
http://www.learninglogs.co.uk/
Learning logs website
Website Publishers
http://www.harcourt.co.uk/Series/Secondary/HeinemannLiter...
Free teaching materials for Heinemann texts
http://www.oup.co.uk/oxed/secondary/english/rollercoaster...
Schemes of work for Oxford Rollercoaster series including: ‘Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’, ‘Abomination’ etc.
http://www.oup.com/oxed/secondary/english/
Oxford University Press pages
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REVprimary.htm
Fantastic for historical context and research
http://www.collinseducation.com/autosites/findResource.as...
Collins Educational resources, schemes of work
http://www.collinseducation.com/autosites/findResource.as...
Collins Readers schemes of work
http://www.penguinreaders.com/pr/resources/index.html
Penguin readers from Easy starts and L1 to Level 6. Also includes audio CD’s and downloadable pdfs of worksheets and activities for each reader. Have to login.
http://www.harcourt.co.uk/Secondary/EnglishAndMedia/Engli...
Great free resources in Heinemann Literature
http://www.chalkface.com/?
Resources that you can buy.
Website KS4 and Media Studies
http://www.mediaedu.co.uk/
Fabulous and essential for Media Studies
http://www.filmeducation.org/
Film resources, sign up and they will send resources for free.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/
Historical research
http://wordsmith.org
www.poemhunter.com
For finding poems
Google Earth – for resources relating to places
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/
Useful games and lessons for below level 3
http://www.tes.co.uk/resources/home.aspx
Go to Resources, log on and then you can search for many, many ideas.
http://www.poetryclass.net/lessona.htm
Poetry website using the senses.
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/secondary/keystage3/all/...
Schemes of work for teaching the novel
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~taflinge/sitcom.html
Sitcom website
http://www.mediaed.org/resources
Great media portal, endless links
http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-sitcoms
Comprehensive list of sitcoms
http://valdefierro.com/bandex.html
American sitcoms abroad
http://www.mediaedu.co.uk/page184/sitcoms.html
Mediaedu’s sitcom portal
http://www.kudlian.net/products/podcaster/education.html
Podcasting information
http://www.literaryconnections.co.uk/resources/teaching.h...
A great place with so many useful ideas and helpful advice.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish/
TEFL teachers need to know about this
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/mice/index.html
Online guide to ‘Of Mice and Men’ useful for vocabulary, maps and pictures, idioms and chapter summaries
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachingandlearning/resource...
Practical support pack for all subjects and Key Stages
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms.htm
Grammar terms
http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/
Useful for notes
http://www.s-cool.co.uk/default.asp
For students
http://www.teacherxpress.com/
Website portal for all subjects v. useful
http://papertoys.com/
Paper toy templates
http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/
English revision – advice for different types of writing
http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/area/literature/LitTerms.html
Literature terms and quizzes
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/secondary/keystage3/all/respub/en_tran_y7_y10
Transition materials for non-fiction from Year 7-10
http://www.novelguide.com/
Novel guide
http://www.reall-languages.com/languages.htm
Interactive games for English, Languages, Art, Maths
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/shakespeare/60secondshakespeare/watch/
60 second Shakespeare links
http://www.poetryclass.net/index.htm
Poetry website and links
http://www.banbury.oxon.sch.uk/faculties/english/resources/poems_from_different_cultures_guide.pdf
Poems from Different culture notes
http://www.geoffbarton.co.uk/
Great Grammar resources
http://www.brainybetty.com/default.htm
Great power point backgrounds and other
http://www.morelearning.net/
Free resources for English
http://www.podcastrevision.co.uk/
Podcast revision for students for English
http://englishgallery.wetpaint.com/page/CGSE+Key+Stage+4?t=anon
Scheme of work
http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/default.htm
Useful for notes including Poems from Different Cultures
http://www.allisonmedia.net/
Excellent Media resources website
http://www.ugo.com/channels/comics/heroMachine2/heromachine2.asp
Make your own super hero.
http://www.ipcmedia.com/
Great for magazine front covers
http://www.filmeducation.org/secondary/concept/index.html
Film concepts and tasks
http://www.victorianweb.org/
Great for Victorian research for high achieving GCSE students or A Levels
http://www.tate.org.uk/
Visual stimuli Hogarth for Victorian Literature, amongst many others. Gin Lane and Beer Street by Hogarth useful for showing the affluent rich and poor – although not Victorian – before hand.
http://u.cc.utah.edu/~tsk2/omfpage.html
Dust heaps – the poor in Victorian society – visual image
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/omf/1865.html
Victorian London 1865 as part of a Charles Dickens project.
Website Teaching and learning resources generic
http://www.independentthinking.co.uk/
Innovative thoughts about teaching
www.visualtheasuaus.com
Fantastic for varying vocabulary
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/timeline/index.html
Interactive time line can be created.
http://hans.presto.tripod.com/funfonts.html
Fun fonts – have to pay for some
http://cooltext.com/Fonts
Free fonts including a range of handwriting fonts
http://www.moorstation.org/fontennium/fontennium.htm
Old fashioned fonts
http://www.specialtyfonts.com/
For special days e.g. Valentine’s Day
http://www.typenow.net/themed.htm
Fonts linked to films
http://www.steljes.co.uk/ProductsServices/Services/Training/TrainingCalendar.htm
SMART board training
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachingandlearning/resource...
Page for lesson plans
www.zoho.com
Online office suite – looks like Word – useful for saving work and being able to go to a website and picking up your work
http://www.nc.uk.net/webdav/harmonise?Page/@id=6004&Subject/@id=5985
National Curriculum online for all KS
http://www.ncaction.org.uk/
Students’ work
http://www.animationlibrary.com/
Free animation library
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index.shtml
Interactive timeline for historical events
http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/
To be able to download Youtube video (legality?)
http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/nationalstrategy/literacy/index.php?category_id=156&s=46c607d554316aba69f00008a1db94fc
Wow word prompts from Lancashire NGFL
http://forms.real.com/netzip/intl/intl_getrde601.html?lang=en&h=software-dl.real.com&f=windows/installer/R40UKD/RealPlayer11BETA.exe&p=RealPlayer&oem=rp11b_en_uk&src=fd_uk_playerpg_3module3&tagtype=ie&type=rp11b_en_uk
New version of Real Player If you have the most up-to-date version of the realplayer (the beta version on the relaplayer site) it gives you the option to download most video content from the net. The only ones I have found where this doesn't work are some on the bbc website. I used realplyer to download lots of videos from youtube for a 1960s project I'm doing in September
(imc wiliams
http://www.softsland.com/pdf_to_word_converter/download.html
PDF to Word converter
From the Full English – Teaching and Learning strategies
https://www.blogger.com/start
Starting up a blog
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
Essential speeches, includes top 100 speeches, movie speeches, audio not visuals.
http://www.applesandsnakes.org./artists.php
Poem of the month, by a contemporary poet.
www.imdb.com
Internet Movie Data Base
http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/
Imperial War Collections – First World War Poetry
www.npg.org.uk
National Portrait Gallery – creative writing about a person’s life from only seeing their picture.
www.moneyinstructor.com
Fake money but also lessons about money ($)
www.teach-nology.com
Go to Worksheets> Bingo card generator
3x3 card or
Word scrambler – can then copy and paste into SMART or Word
Lots of other ‘generators’ as well
http://www.demgames.org/
Citizenship games which are free to play. Captain Campaign etc
www.ziv.jerusalem.k12.il/engjacket.doc
Template for a book jacket
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storclas.html
Electronic books
http://www.mind-mapping.co.uk/
Tony Buzan includes ‘How to Mind Map’
http://www.wilderdom.com/games/
Team games, ice breakers lots of very cool games
Great for end of term ‘fun’ lessons
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/hello/
Say Hello and other short phrases in lots of different languages
http://www.cs.unb.ca/profs/fritz/cs3503/sixhat35.htm
Information and types of questions for De Bono’s Six Hats
http://www.headfirst.com.au/cms/pages/!/display.html
Thinking skills
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Free for making word searches but be warned, they cannot be saved
http://www.online-literature.com/
Lots of preC20 works of literature in full.
http://www.storylineonline.net/
Actors reading stories mainly primary
http://www.rsc.org.uk/explore/
RSC Shakespeare resources including picture galleries etc.
http://www.teachers-pet.org/whatistp.html
Can create word jumbles, crosswords, flashcards etc.
http://www.spelling.hemscott.net/
Spelling website
http://www.globaldimension.org.uk/default.aspx
Global issues with links to free resources and resources to purchase.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/more/timefiller/contents.htm
Teaching displays and activities for the start of lessons.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index.shtml
Very useful timeline of British events. Journeys can be taken in relation to: Slavery, Women’s Rights, Technology and the Kings and Queens.
From Teacher’s TV
Website Teachers’ comments
www.achuka.co.uk
Contains the latest news about books for young readers, including lists of awards, profiles, interviews, etc. Try also www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/authors.html
www.aqa.org.uk
Contains information on the AQA exam specifications.
www.bbc.co.uk/education
Contains KS3 and GCSE revision activities for pupils, teachers’ lesson plans and resources and weekly articles for parents. For access to audio and video news footage try www.bbc.co.uk/news or www.itn.co.uk
www.becta.org.uk
The Government’s lead agency for ICT in education. This site provides advice on ICT for teachers in every curriculum area.
www.bfi.org.uk
Contains useful documents, planning and resources for film and media literacy.
www.bgfl.org.uk
Bolton’s virtual teaching and learning centre. Contains links to other websites.
www.bibliomania.com
Provides useful summaries, character studies and valuable brief biographies of authors, plus classic texts that can be downloaded for use.
www.booktrust.org.uk/
Contains reader recommendations, resources form around the world, suggestions for reading clubs, book lists, profiles of authors, etc.
www.booktrusted.co.uk
A good website for children’s book-related information of all kinds.
www.byteachers.org.uk
Contains free teaching resources and materials. The ‘Virtual School’ provides a range of online lessons.
www.channel4.com/learning/main/secondary
Provides access to online learning for the classroom. Just click on ‘English’.
www.ebicom.net/-tct/history.htm
Contains information on all aspects of drama history, providing the essential points about theatre design, platwrights and plays for each era.
www.edexcel.org.uk
Contains information on the Edexcel exam specifications.
www.eduseek.com
A general education site, providing a focus on English Language and Literature.
www.e-gfl.org/
The award-winning Essex Grid for Learning website. Contains teaching resources and links to relevant Key Stage 3 National Strategy sites.
www.embc.org.uk
Access to the East Midlands Broadband Consortium, which delivers the Northamptonshire eLearning Portal – www.northamptonshire.gov.uk
www.english1.org.uk
Has links to hundreds of sites and helpful information and resources.
www.englishandmedia.co.uk
Contains details of published materials and some exemplar units of work.
www.englishbiz.co.uk
A GCSE English Language and Literature revision site.
www.englishonline.co.uk
Offers a range of web-delivered, whole-school interactive activities to use in the English classroom and ICT suite. Suitable for all Key Stages. Includes the collapser tool: www.englishonline.co.uk/freesite_tour/resource/wordlab/collapser.html
www.englishplus.com
A site designed to help with grammar and punctuation.
www.englishresources.co.uk
Excellent on GCSE. Some good resources for work on the anthology.
www.english-teaching.co.uk
Range of resources, ready to print worksheets, some better than others. Will need to pay a subscription to access further resources.
www.filmeducation.org.uk
Provides information on films. Click on the ‘Secondary Resources’ menu to compare text and film scenarios. Also register for free CDs containing latest film trailers.
www.childdrama.com
Provides drama lesson plans and playlets.
www.guardiancentury.co.uk
This ‘Guardian’ newspaper archive provides a wealth of news reports from 1899 to 1999. Ideal for studying the language, style and layout newspaper reports.
www.heinemann.co.uk
“UK’s leading educational publisher.” Use this site to find out about their latest products, view sample pages and discover free resources.
www.hi8us.co.uk
An ambitious still-developing site. The Edrama project encourages pupils to create their own dramas and scripts, using virtual characters and actors.
www.jubileebooks.co.uk
A company designed to offer a wide choice of books and resources from all relevant publishers and to offer expert and impartial advice on choosing them. This site also provides information about book boxes, book fairs and school visits.
www.kidsreview.org.uk
Contains a database of book reviews written by children for children. After being supplied with a password, children can add their own book reviews to the site.
www.learn.co.uk
The Guardian education page. Access to subscription sites available through this site.
www.learningdiscovery.co.uk
The website for Northamptonshire’s Learning Discovery Centre. Contains, among other things, exciting details and developments as a result of the NIAS/LDC ICT/e-learning in English Project, including useful free downloads for use in the classroom.
www.leics.gov.uk/education
Contains examples of KS3 units of work and advice on whole school literacy.
www.literacytrust.org.uk/readingconnects
A National Literacy trust initiative designed to “provide the way in to the resources, links and ideas schools need to help them develop a reading ethos.” Provides links to a variety of organisations and resources, a guide to storytellers and authors, funding advice, websites to inspire teenagers to read and research, statistics and case studies about reading.
www.nate.org.uk
National Association for the Teaching of English. Contains information on current issues, units of work (including group and guided reading) and details of published resources.
www.ncaction.org.uk/subjects/english
Uses pupils’ work and case study materials to show what the National Curriculum in English looks like in practice.
www.ncbc.co.uk
Norfolk Children’s Book Centre site – provides information on storytellers, authors, conferences, INSET and mail order purchases.
www.ngfl.gov.uk
National Grid for Learning – the gateway to educational resources on the internet. See www.tre.ngfl.gov.uk for the teacher resource exchange, in which teachers share and evaluate resources for English teaching and learning.
www.northants-ecl.gov.uk/apps/LIS/LRE/HME.asp
Northamptonshire’s Learning Resources for Education website. Contains links to sites for a variety of authors, poets and illustrators, as well as ‘Text Talk’ (a themed book reviewing site) and a ‘Literacy Support Page’, which links to all major children’s book awards and shortlists.
www.novelguide.com
Provides useful summaries, quotes, character studies and valuable brief biographies of authors.
www.ocr.org.uk
Contains information on the OCR exam specifications.
www.poetryclass.net
Contains resources and lessons re: teaching of poetry in KS1 - 4.
www.qca.org.uk
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority website – contains details about National tests and research/case studies re: assessment, learning, etc.
www.randomhouse.co.uk
This publisher’s site contains extracts of their latest texts.
www.readingclub.org.uk
Education Extra’s website, containing information on reading clubs and programmes, reading games and activities, suitable texts, etc.
www.rhymezone.com
Enter a word and the online rhyming dictionary comes up with a range of alternatives.
www.schoolsnet.com
Provides online teaching resources for all subjects.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess
Hosts advertising used across different decades for a range of products/services.
www.shakespeare.org.uk
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust site includes information about the centre and a short developing collection of A-level essays.
www.shakespeare-online.com
A vast resource for students and teachers - includes essays.
www.shared-visions.com/explore/english
This site reminds students about the basics of grammar.
www.univeralteacher.org.uk
Andrew Moore’s teaching resources website. Contains resources for teachers and students of English Language, Literature and Drama and basic information about how to acquire skills in ICT and internet technologies.
www.sln.org.uk
Staffordshire County Council’s website. The ‘web projects’ contains information on teaching resources to support English.
www.smartgroups.com/groups/english.teaching
Provides an opportunity for you to share information and network with other people – an online community.
www.spelling.hemscott.net
Provides plenty of reference, exercises and puzzles and advice for parents.
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/keystage3
Contains National Strategy materials and updates. Access the Primary web by substituting ‘literacy’ for ‘keystage3’.
www.teachernet.gov.uk
Provides access to lesson plans, learning links with the local community and comprehensive directories for Community Learning Grids, teaching unions and other affiliated bodies.
www.teacherxpress.com
“The education web – all in one place – for busy teachers”. It contains links to many new sites in all subject areas.
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Schemes of work and printable resources provided by teachers. You can pay a subscription for access to extra resources.
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Like the newspaper, this contains updates on current issues, job advertisements, teaching materials, etc
www.theatrehistory.com
Provides information about theatre, plays and playwrights.
www.thegrid.org.uk/learning
Hertfordshire’s website (a KS3 National Strategy Pilot Authority) – contains tips and resources for teachers on approaches to reading (shared and guided), writing, speaking and listening and the new KS3 SATs.
www.the-times.co.uk
‘The Times’ online – contains details of the latest news stories as well as feature articles. See also www.mirror.co.uk
for a tabloid version
www.wrx.zen.co.uk/britnews.htm
Gives links to all online British newspapers and some magazines - local, national and regional.
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Essentials for English teachers National Association for Teaching of English The organisation that represents English teachers. Read about the wider issues and get involved with your community. Edit
English & Media Centre
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Andrew Moore's English site free resources for English teachers.
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The English Gallery A website created by an English Teacher for English teachers! It contains whole schemes of work for both KS3 and KS4. Each scheme also has high quality resources included as well as simple and clear lesson plans to guide teachers through each activity. Some schemes and resources have also been differentiated for G&T/SEN/EAL pupils. Edit
Literary Connections links, books and resources for secondary English - mainly but not exclusively for literature. Edit
Language in Use resources for the study of language.
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The English Language List (email discussion group for A/AS Lang.)
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Geoff Barton including resources for whole school literacy.
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The English Association
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emagazine and
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The English Review from Philip Allan Updates - magazines for A/AS students.
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NCTE US version of NATE and of course bigger. Useful but very busy discussion lists - join and be prepared for hundreds of mails! Edit
Teacher's Pet Text Tool for Teachers The Teacher's Pet Text Tool is a free add-on for Microsoft Word that can help you transform any text into a fun classroom activity. Developed by a teacher, here are just some of the things the tool can do: Crosswords Flashcards Bingo Cards Jumbles Gap-fill / Cloze tests Edit
English Department, The Association of Teacher Websites
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Competitions Christopher Tower Poetry Competition organised by ChristChurch, Oxford University.
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Are you running a competition you think we should know about? Drop us a mail!
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The Trollope Short Story Competition for secondary students between the ages of fifteen and nineteen and based on a work of Trollope. Edit
Scriblist..com Internet collaborative writing project. Become a published author in 6 months.
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Debating competition
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Write Here, Write Now writing competition for years 4 and 5.
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National Poetry Competition from the Poetry Society and
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TES Write Away Competition Win cash prizes and laptop computers with this competition aimed at encouraging young people's writing (aged 11-14). Winning entries are published and a downloadable resource booklet available on the site. Edit
Parliamentary Press Gallery Essay Contest for years 10 to 13.
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Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award
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Newsday Can your school produce a newspaper and/or a news website in a single day?
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Exam boards SQA
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OCR
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Edexcel
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CCEA (Northern Ireland)
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AQA
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WJEC (CBAC)
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Educational organisations Year of reading organisation a site for teachers, parents, libraries, businesses etc. Includes suggestions on how to get involved. Edit
National Literacy Trust includes details about a range of initiatives: The National Reading Campaign, Reading Champions (celebrating positive role models for young male readers) and Reading is Fundamental which provides free books for children, interviews with famous readers and competitions. Children can also publish their own book reviews or participate in online writing projects. Edit
Book Trust funded by the Arts Council, this simple site is easily navigable and fulfils its aim of 'bringing books and people together' by offering recommended reads for children organised by age group and reading ability, best books of the year, bestsellers and awards. Edit
Becta Schools site the agency which supports all four UK education departments in their strategic ICT developments. Edit
My Home Library encourage young readers to build their own collection of favourite books ..
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ACCAC Welsh version of the above.
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Ofsted as above, but more so.
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QCA confusing structure means you have to dig around to find essential info about SATs etc.
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Teachernet a portal for teachers. Will take you to other .gov sites and other resources.
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TDA The Training and Development Agency for Schools (formerly TTA) - for trainers and trainees. Edit
DfES not exactly entertaining, but possibly useful.
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National Grid for Learning this site focuses on IT in learning. Recommended - a trip to the Virtual Teacher Centre holding classroom materials and essential links. Worth a look, though can be difficult to navigate. Edit
National Curriculum online searchable, downloadable information on the new NC.
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The Standards site a user friendly site (the best of the government's educational offering) with information on the new schemes of work. Edit
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Unions NASUWT
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ATL
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NUT
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Teaching portals English Teaching in the UK a good starting point for your research...
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Association of Teacher Websites loads of free resources from teacher built web sites.
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Online Teachers Net another teachers' portal, including jobs and curriculum links.
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TEEM 'Teachers Evaluating Educational Materials' - worth a look if you're considering buying software or for their growing list of evaluated web sites (note, though, that sites have to pay to be evaluated) Edit
Topmarks a very useful but increasingly unwieldy choice of teaching resources on the web.
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Schoolzone a comprehensive site for teachers, including news, information, an online staffroom and classroom resources. Edit
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The media - Educational / literary London Review of Books Online
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Radio 4 site Hours could be usefully spent browsing here.
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The Times Literary Supplement
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BBC includes the Bitesize Revision section, and the fantastic
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Channel4 Learning includes Netnotes, free online resources linked to programme output and videos. Edit
Times Educational Supplement an online version.
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The media - News - Broadcast ITN
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Channel 4 news
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CNN
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BBC News Check out their daily email of customisable news which could be enormously valuable as part of a classroom project. Or, for a genuine newsroom feel, why not download a 'News Ticker', a toolbar which sits on your screen and is constantly updated with headlines? Edit
BBC Newsround Pupil friendly online news.
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The media - News - Broadsheets The Guardian
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The Telegraph
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The Independent
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The media - News - Tabloids The Mirror
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The Sun
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The Daily Express
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The media - News - International The Paperboy Visit this site for access to news from around the world.
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The New York Times
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The Washington Post
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Publishing companies Virago Features: Reading guides.
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Heinemann Features: sample free resources, eg practice tests for years 7 and 8 and sample modules for A2 AQA specifications. Schemes of work for New Windmills novels. Edit
Random House Features: ebooks*, Toni Morrison.
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Scholastic.com: Harry Potter is the star of this Publisher's site, but it also includes the Goosebump series, with areas for teachers, kids and parents. Edit
Penguin Classics Features: featured articles, for example Elaine Showalter on Zola, teachers' guides (mainly Shakespeare). Edit
Macmillan Education
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Penguin Features: ebooks* such as Stone Cold and English Passengers.
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Oxford University Press Features: children's fiction section with tips for creative writing from Gillian Cross and recommended books. Edit
Cambridge University Press Features: interactive English Basics exercises.
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Faber and Faber Features: author interviews, eg Ishiguro, Heaney.
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Bloomsbury Features: beautiful, interactive Harry Potter sub site, writers' area, reviews, first chapters and a free online database of reference works. Edit
Longman Features: useful teaching tips and some classroom resources.
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Hodder Literature Features: a selection of novels for the Key Stage 3 classroom from authors such as David Almond, along with free resource material including lesson plans and photocopiable worksheets. Edit
Collins Education Features: details on all Collins titles for frameworking, fiction, poetry, drama etc and a number of free downloads. Edit
Harper Collins Features: author pages including Tolkein, Lessing and Woolf, extracts, author clips and reading guides for a range of books. Edit
Harcourt Part of Heinemann, this link takes you to free resources for a variety of KS3 , 4 and 5 texts. Edit
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Generally literary ibiblio another vast e-library.
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Bibliomania.com a very easy to use library of classic e-texts, searchable and downloadable. Now also includes study guides. Edit
Bartleby Great Books Online a database of the classic texts.
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Page by page books classic (US) texts online.
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Centurions A BBC site containing information on the greatest writers, painters, architects, film-makers, designers, sculptors and poets of our century. Edit
19th Century British and Irish Authors a massive gateway site to all the known websites on 19th century British and Irish authors; a good starting point for anyone carrying out research into 19th century writers. Also includes links to other, earlier, writers. Edit
eserver.org vast amount of online Arts materials.
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Bookhooks illustrated book reports online.
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Thesaurus.com lots of useful info and activities for playing around with words.
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Humbul Humanities Hub aims to be UK higher and further education's first choice for accessing online humanities resources. Edit
About's Arts Index and another!
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Books Unlimited from the Guardian - really useful research starting point - includes information about authors, reviews, first chapters, top tens. Edit
The Poetry Archive Aims to be 'the world's largest and best equipped collection of poets reading their own work'. Unique recordings - and teaching materials too. Edit
Save the Children's Back to School Site a new site to raise awareness of displaced children around the world, and to help teachers with the citizenship component of the national curriculum, containing structured lesson plans in Art, English, Drama and PSHE. Edit
National Poetry Day (9th October 2003). This year's theme is Britain. Take part in the Poetry Landmarks initiative - a project to map poetry related things on an interactive map, use the teacher's toolkit for help with planning an event, how to order a poster and a selection of lesson plans, or submit your own three lines to Roger McGough's patchwork poem. Edit
National Children's Book Week Visit to find out about organising your own event or to order / download lovely resources. Edit
BBC Arts Web guide try the publishers section. Handy.
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Art in Time Literary history with an artistic twist.
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Talking to .. Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Orwell, William Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf. Edit
Young Writer Magazine a platform for writers aged 18 and under, including lots of ideas, competitions etc. A useful teacher resource although aimed primarily at young people. Edit
Heath Anthology of American Literature
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The Poetry Book Society
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Luminarium v. useful for Literary research.
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Living Words Education at the British Library.
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Novel Guide another good place to start your literary research.
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Spark Notes from Harvard. Solid stuff for learning about a range of texts (including Shakespeare, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Beloved, Of Mice and Men, The Handmaid's Tale ...) Edit
4literature.net a free etext library of classic texts.
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http://www.lovereading4schools reluctant readers survey The National Literacy Trust and Lovereading4schools want your help in choosing books for reluctant readers. Edit
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ICT Eduforum ICT tutorials, forums, review and more ...
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Google.co.uk probably the best search engine?
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Half Baked Software use this free tool to create your own educational interactive exercises. (We'll even publish them here at Teachit if you like!) Edit
Question Tools or, use this one!
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