When Two Vowels Go Walking
The song in the video explains the rule: "When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking." Words that appear include: boat, meat, train, pail, rain, brain, soap, say, neat, beat, dream, pain, and plain.
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.
Spelling Practice Sheets
Eighteen spelling practice sheets to help with revision for the Key Stage 2 SATs spelling test. The words are usefully arranged in sets with similar spelling patterns. This is a PDF document so you need Acrobat Reader.
Easter Wordsearch
Can you find all the Easter words in the wordsearch? There are different size wordsearches to try.
Farm Africa
Farm Africa is a charity working with poor African farmers. The site details problems faced in poor rural communities. The schools area has lots of information on farming in countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Kenya and South Africa.
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.
Road Safety Scotland
Road Safety Scotland produces a range of educational resources aimed for use with pre-school, primary and secondary pupils and pupils with additional learning needs.
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.
Child's Progress Checker
These progress checkers will provide short questions you can answer to see how your baby or child is getting on with their talking and understanding of words.
Homeostasis - The Kidneys and Water Balance
An excellent interactive site which explains the structure and function of the kidneys. It also looks at how kidneys work, at problems which can arise and at dialysis.
