Traditional Tale Characteristics
This site looks at a story and how it is written with a beginning, middle and end. It explains what each section is for.
Story Maker
You can make your own story here by choosing the characters and setting. Make either a fairy story, horror story or science-fiction story. After you have made your story you can read it online or print it out. For 6 - 8 year olds.
How to Support a Pupil with Dyslexia
A concise page which explains what Dyslexia is and strategies teachers can use to help to identify and support pupils with Dyslexia.
Playing Shakespeare from the Globe Education
Globe Education offers a collection of free online resources, aimed to support the study of Shakespeare in schools mainly at KS3 but resources could be used at different levels. Free Globe tickets for London schools too!
Apostrophe for Contractions
A contractions matching game.
Spellingframe
A spelling game with some free spellings taken from the spelling curriculum in England. Each word is read aloud, included in a sentence and broken into syllables.
Word Collapse
A clever word game which requires logical thinking to find the solutions.
Poop Deck Pirates
A phonics game which can help you to build words. Read the words and decide if they are real words or not. The game links to phases 3, 4 and 5 of the 'Letters and Sounds' programme. It works well on an interactive whiteboard.
Phoneme Patterns
Quickly find readable words associated with YR, Y1 and Y2 phonemes from Letters & Sounds in this sound buttons and phoneme family resource.
Blending Bingo
Play Bingo in a class situation or just use on an individual basis to practise your blending skills. The words match those in Letters and Sounds.