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EdWordle

Wordle is a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. It gives more prominence to words that appear more frequently. You can tweak the clouds with different fonts, layouts and colour schemes. Print out your clouds.

5-14 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

GCSE Bitesize

All GCSE Bitesize revision guides from the BBC are featured on this site.

14-16 year olds
Pupils

10 Tips on Hearing your Child Read

Tips for parents on how best to help and encourage your child with reading by Topmarks.

3-7 year olds
Parents

Poetryclass

Poetryclass can help teachers wanting to bring poetry alive in the classroom. It has good ideas for teaching poetry.

7-16 year olds
Teachers

World Book Day

Packed with teaching resources, information, ideas and inspiration you’ll find everything here to make your World Book Day celebrations a success and encourage reading for pleasure all year round.

3-18 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

BBC School Radio

Podcasts of radio broadcasts, downloads, audio, video clips, sound stimulus library and learning resources for primary schools.

3-11 year olds
Teachers

I'm Reading

Online illustrated story books with audio to help young children read. Children can click on the words to hear what they say. They include traditional tales, myths, fables, comics and plays.

5-7 year olds
Pupils

PhonicsPlay.co.uk

Phonics reading games linked to the 'Letters and Sounds' programme in England. Some are free on this subscription site.

5-7 year olds
Teachers, Parents

The Poetry Zone

An inspirational poetry site with all sorts. If you are between 4 and 18 you can send in your poems to be published. There are ideas for teachers on how to teach poetry. Read interviews with poets and find contact details for poets who visit schools.

5-16 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Online Audio Stories

Enjoy free online fairy tales, classic books and poems for children. There are also lots of stories to read too.

5-11 year olds
Pupils, Parents
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