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sites with instructions for creating and making a variety
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Children's CBBC site, makes and creates, plenty
of factsheets with seasonal activities. Also links to
Blue Peters Make and bakes, The Make Shift and SmArt.
Activities can be viewed on screen or printed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/create/makes/index.shtml
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Art Attack. Ideas from CITV's art and craft
programme
http://www.artattack.co.uk/menu_artattacks.html
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Recounts
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Time Witness:
Notes from their grandparents on life from 50 years
ago. This also includes a 'Panel of Elders' of many nations
that you may put your questions to. You can find a list
of stories here and also Quicktime movie clips of some
of the stories here
http://timewitnesses.org/ |
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The Chat Back Trust
The Internet at its best - the Chatback Trust was set
up with the specific purpose of putting children in
touch with older people, using the treasure trove which
their memories represent. There are stories which can
be downloaded, and the facility to e-mail the sources
for history topics and Literacy.
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/chatback/
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| Newspapers
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Links to Children's News programme, Newsround, BBC
News and some of the other Daily Papers.
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Google.co.uk a search engine the link below
indexes all the major News publication web sites.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/News_and_Media/Newspapers/?tc=1
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Newsround: Children's BBC News programme
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/
BBC News Site, up to date News, as it progresses
during the day and access to immediate images.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
NEWSWISE is an online educational resource based
on topical news stories. It is designed to improve the
literacy and thinking skills of children and young people
aged between 8 and 18
http://www.dialogueworks.co.uk/newswise/
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| Other
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Adverts and enticing descriptions from Holiday brochures,
commercial companies and Online Estate Agents
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Kuoni:
Travel agents, the site allows you to find out about
destinations around the world as well as accommodation
http://www.kuoni.co.uk |
Ski-ing
Holiday brochures
http://www.thomson-ski.co.uk/ski/index.html |
Thomson
Holidays
http://www.thomson-holidays.com |
Sainsburys:
Good for adverts and Recipes
http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/ |
Tescos:
Links to many adverts
http://www.tesco.com/ |
Yell.com:
Yellow pages online
http://www.yell.com
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Explanatory Texts, Information
Texts and Movies
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History Based
Snaith Primary School: Cross curricular texts
and topics. A super stating point for Non-fiction reading
and writing.
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/theatre.htm
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BBC Landmarks: Includes, Rivers and coasts,
environmental change and Ancient Greece
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/landmarks/
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BBC Primary
History links to topics such as Vikings, Romans and
WW2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/schools/4_11/index.shtml?history
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BBC: Index of education materials aged 11-16
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/schools/11_16/index.shtml
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Mape: The historical Internet treasure hunts
in the Kids Mape section are a good starting point for
skimming and scanning texts for particular information
http://www.mape.org.uk/
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British Museum: For stunning Egyptian images
and explanatory text.
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/
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Sainsburys Virtual Museum: Although this is
a history website, many of the activities have been
designed to support years 5 and 6 Literacy Hour work.
The activities encourage pupils to locate information,
select and evaluate texts, produce CVs, develop the
skills of biographical writing and produce history newsletters.
http://www.sainsburysvirtualmuseum.org.uk
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Nettlesworth
Primary School History Section: links to a wealth
of child orientated texts on a variety of historical topics
http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/time.html |
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Tudor History: Information on the Tudors, Henry
The 8th and his wives.
http://tudorhistory.org
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Science Based
Nature Grid- Canterbury Environmental Education
Centre: Provides online environmental activities, simple
explanatory texts and information pages.
http://www.naturegrid.org.uk
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Brainpop:
American site for reinforcing scientific concepts.
Plays small movies an opportunity to take notes and listen
to a variety of Science topics
http://www.brainpop.com
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Starchild: Text about the space can be viewed
at different levels
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html
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Geography, Current Affairs
Oxfams Cool Planet, links to Amazing World to explore
current Issues, e.g. Afganistan
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/
For younger Children there is Wake Up World comparison
of children's lives indifferent localities around the
world a staring point for discussion and writing about
their lives and comparisons.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/world/wakeup/index.htm
A big book on coastal environments with associated
activities.
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/coasts/index.html
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How stuff
Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/ |
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Enchanted Learning: resource covering many curriculum
areas
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
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Poetry
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Poetry for children- A collection of amusing
poems by Ken Nesbit, with tips on writing your own poetry.
This site also provides links to other poetry sites.
Key Stage 2
www.nesbitt.com/poetry
Rhyme Zone
http://www.rhymezone.com/
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Narrative
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Links
to Author Sites
http://www.wokingham.gov.uk/literacy/links.htm |
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Online Books
The Sea Stealers
http://www.argosphere.net/Sea/intro.htm
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Nature Grid
Developed by Kent as part of their NGFL strategy, Infant
Explorer provides access to on screen Big books and
Key Stage 1 Literacy resources
http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/infant/bigbook.html
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Fable Vision: Story telling: A lovely resources
of online stories, click on story to go straight to
the texts.
http://www.fablevision.com/
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| This set of MAPE
Big Books is ideal for the Literacy Hour. You can
set the font style and size - http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/bigbooks/index.htm |
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Interactive story building activities
http://goodnightstories.com/stories.htm
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Stories
from the Web
http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org/
Encourages children to write stories; publishes children’s
stories |
An excellent
Canadian website which centres on literacy for children.
Links to authors and other good resources.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html |
Wacky
Web Tales, an interesting way to create on line stories.
Key Stage 2
www.eduplace.com/tales/index.html |
BBC
Read and Write resources
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/bookcase/readandwrite/ |
Ask the
Author Ask questions of well known children's authors…linked
to their home pages - Key Stage 2
www.ipl.org/youth/AskAuthor/Biographies.html |
Internet
Public Library story hour Selection of online stories…
- Key Stage 1
www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour |
Mrs Mad's
book-a-rama- A Collection of book reviews, resources,
jokes and games - Key Stage 2
http://www.mrsmad.com/ |
American
Scholastic Site Literature resources and links
http://teacher.scholastic.com/ilp/index.asp?SubjectID=1
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Fairy Tales, Myths and
Legends
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Scholastic
Site: Myths Folktales and Fairy Tales
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/ |
Grimms
Fairy Tales: This site contains 209 tales collected
by the brothers Gird. Very simple site Text only
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/ |
Grimms
at The National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/index2.html |
Children's
Story: For fairy tales and fables
www.childrenstory.com/tales/ |
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Other Genre
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Ghost
stories and strange folktales of the American South,
told by the region's most celebrated storytellers. Some
unsuitable for younger children.
http://www.themoonlitroad.com/ |
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Big Myth: Creation stories from round the world.
Each story is animated and narrated. Interaction encouraged.
http://www.bigmyth.com
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Bibliomania: Links to texts
http://www.bibliomania.com
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Supporting Literacy , Downloadable
lesson plans resources and files
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Stockport
LEA Literacy Web links
http://www.stockportmbc.gov.uk/curriculum/english/eng2.htm#speaking
For computer based resources and activities also go to:
http://www.train.stockton.gov.uk/learningtrack/page.asp?z=z&next=showcat&uniqcat=31 |
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Digital Brain: Follow teacher and QCA schemes
for online whiteboard lessons
http://www.digitalbrain.co.uk
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GOOGLE:
Internet search Engine. Easy to use and find lots of resources
http://www.google.co.uk |
Teachers
Resource Centre: Lots of ideas, plans, and shared
resources for literacy and other subject areas.
http://tre.ngfl.gov.uk/ |
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BECTA: ICT in the English Curriculum, links are
mostly KS3
http://curriculum.becta.org.uk/docserver.php?temid=84
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National
Association of English Teacher
http://www.nate.org.uk/ |
NACCE
and RM report on ICT in Literacy. Example lesson plans
of using ICT in Literacy
http://www.naace.org.uk/lit/index.html |
Literacy
Time aims to support teachers in the use of ICT to
develop literacy at Key Stages 1 and 2. It's focus is
on integrating ICT into the Literacy Hour includes a wealth
of literacy strategy ideas and resources
http://curriculum.becta.org.uk/literacy/index.html
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Kevins
Playroom: Complete list of Literacy Links
http://www.kevinsplayroom.co.uk/english.htm
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The Standards Site: Literacy Area
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/literacy/teaching_resources/?nls=res
Year 5 and 6 Booster Classes downloadable resources.
Including Texts
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/literacy/teaching_resources/?nls=fres&root_top_id=876
The National Literacy Framework. Download Teaching
examples, planning grids and Worksheets
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/literacy/publications/?pub_id=135&top_id=327&atcl_id=2100
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Schoolzone:
Lesson plans and activities
http://www.schoolzone.co.uk/ |
Primary
Resources: Literacy Lesson plans, ideas, resources,
factual and fiction writing Key Stage 1-2
www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/english.htm |
Scholastics'
American teacher resource area provides teacher with lesson
plans and literacy resources Key stage 1-3
www.teacher.scholastic.com/index |
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Hamilton Trust charity based In Oxford: Medium
term and weekly plans with resource sheets. You have
to use their suggested texts and their phonics programme:
http://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk
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The
National Curriculum
http://www.nc.uk.net/home.html |
