The "Elements of a Story" interactive takes the story of Cinderella and explores the different 'ingredients' that make up a story.

An interactive graphic organizer which can helps students to develop an outline for one of three types of comparison essays: whole-to-whole, similarities-to-differences, or point-to-point. There is a guide which explains the compare and contrast genre.

A good site with tips for different types of writing. It provides structures indicating what to include for different genres such as reports, letter writing, persuasive writing and the like. It gives examples for different ages.

A teacher demonstration tool which can be used to demonstrate handwriting, letter or number formation.

This website shows you how to design effective posters, newspapers and comics by going through the important elements of each. Later you can try out your own designs. A brilliant teaching tool.

An interactive whiteboard teaching tool for introducing elements of persuasive texts. Suitable for upper key stage 2.

A road is going to be built through Badger Wood. Children need to read all about it and then try to save the wood. A good stimulus for persuasive writing.

Aimed at year 3 pupils, this website explores the features of written instructions. It looks at the use of time words to show the order and of verbs. Super illustrations.

Create a character and give him or her crazy features, including Madagascar parts, if you wish. You can print off your character if you wish. Great for describing your character or writing a story.

A teaching aid to help children understand the use of similies in their writing.

A good teaching resource for helping children to produce descriptive, persuasive writing. Suitable for Year 6.

A great teaching resource for looking at alternatives to the word 'said' in written work. Useful for teaching speech marks.

This website is designed to support teachers and pupils in writing a descriptive piece of writing in preparation for WJEC English GCSE but sections could be used successfully with younger children. There are accompanying worksheets.

An animation of words to use as an alternative to 'said'. Children set the task of searching narratives for the alternatives came up with the words and they are featured in an interesting way. Not interactive but pupils could see how many words they can remember.