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Vikings

Five learner guides and 16 class clip videos on the Vikings from the BBC.

7-11 year olds
Pupils

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.

7-14 year olds
Pupils

The Children's Poetry Archive

A superb selection of poems arranged by themes, style or author. You can listen to an audio track of each poem being read by the author.

5-11 year olds
Pupils

Words for Life

Words for Life’s aim is to inspire more people to read, more regularly, for both pleasure and personal advancement. Useful booklists especially chosen to appeal to less confident readers. Free resources matched to books.

3-11 year olds
Parents

Teach Your Monster to Read

A free game for young children to practise the first steps of reading. The game is built on the principles of synthetic phonics and follows the teaching sequence of the Letters and Sounds programme.

5-7 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

The Literacy Shed

The Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources with teaching ideas suitable for use in the primary classroom. There are some fabulous animations to use as stimulus for writing.

5-11 year olds
Teachers

BookTrust

BookTrust is the UK's largest children's reading charity and they provide free books, resources and support to promote reading. Well worth a visit.

0-14 year olds
Teachers, Parents

Google Slides

Create presentations with Google Slides. Also lends itself to collaborative work and making ebooks.

7-18 year olds
Pupils

Poetry

Search the CLPE extensive bank of poems for children, poetry teaching resources, videos of poet performances and interviews to support the teaching of poetry.

7-11 year olds
Pupils

Ssssssnake Hotel

A great blog with lots of fabulous teaching ideas for reading/writing/performing poetry.

7-11 year olds
Teachers
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