Minecraft Education
Education Edition is an open-world game that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive environment. Also learn to code in Minecraft.
Spell Block Academy
A fun spelling game with a wizard theme. Use the provided words or create your own spelling list of words in the Spells book.
Amazing Words
Amazing Words is all about prepositions. It explains what prepositions are and includes activities where you can identify the prepositions in sentences.
Alphabetical Ordering
This is a game for practising ordering words into the order they appear in the alphabet. The 6 levels extend from using the first letter of the words, to ordering words where the fourth letter determines the order.
Sighties
A delightful game where you find the sight words. This game is based on the first 100 high frequency words used in reading and writing.
Violet's Vowel Suffix
A spelling game with two parts: a demonstration mode and a game mode. It teaches important suffixes such as ing, ed, ey and er. It is great for teaching when to double consonants when adding suffixes.
Plural Pirates
A useful spelling tutorial and game about adding s or es to a word to make it into a plural. It also covers plurals of words ending in y.
Fizzy Funny Fuzzy Poetry for Kids
Funny poems for children on lots of different subjects. The author is Gareth Lancaster. You can print out the poems and email them to a friend if you want.
GCSE Bitesize Revision - English
Taking GCSE English? Here are some useful aids to revision. The site looks at a wide variety of aspects such as composing essays, to work on set texts. There is a section on Standard Grade English if you are in Scotland.
Key Stage 3 Bitesize - English
Brush up your Shakespeare, fiction and non-fiction literacy skills with KS3 Bitesize. Useful advice on improving your letter writing, descriptions, narratives and persuasive articles.