Encylopedia Mythica
Alphabetically arranged information on myths and legends from a wide range of different ancient cultures.
My Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Here are pages on Mary Shelley's life, family, friends and novels. There is a summary of Frankenstein, a description of the main characters, the full text and an explanation of the subtitle 'The Modern Prometheus'.
King Lear Study Guide
A study guide from LitCharts which examines the plot summary and analysis, the themes, quotes, characters and historical context.
Shakespeare Schools Foundation
SSF is a biennial festival open to every secondary school, working with 11-16 year olds and their teachers throughout the UK. This unique arts-education initiative enables young people to perform Shakespeare's most famous plays in their local theatres.
Spelling Bee
The spelling activities on this US site are for children aged 5 in September (Grade 1) up to age 17 in September (Grade 10). The primary age activities are good exercises for KS1 and KS2 spelling SATs in England as they follow a similar format.
Teaching Ideas
Lots of brilliant lesson ideas, plans, activities and resources to use in the primary classroom.
Oxford Owl
Oxford Owl is a free website built to help parents with their child’s reading. This is an excellent resource packed with free ebooks from the Oxford Reading Tree reading scheme, games and activities.
Short Vowel Word Machines
Can you read the three letter (CVC) words on these animated word machines?
Aesop's Fables
An online collection of hundreds of fables by Aesop and Hans Christian Anderson.
Coconut Vowels
A fun spelling game where you need to think quickly or it's game over. Fill in the gaps in the words to make a real words. There are different levels of difficulty. For teachers' information the game focuses on vowel digraphs.
