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Ssssssnake Hotel

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

7-11 year olds
Teachers

Wonderful Words, Creative Stories about Space

improve two simple sentences by adding descriptive words. Observe how your choices affect the animated images. Use your sentences as inspiration for a story about space. A good site for demonstrating how to write more interesting sentences.

7-9 year olds
Pupils

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

Wonderful Words, Creative Stories Beach Theme

An animated game where you can see how to add adjectives to make boring sentences into more interesting ones.

7-9 year olds
Pupils

Riddle of the Black Panther

Track down a black panther reported to be prowling around a town. Interview witnesses and gather information from sources such as a website, an advertisement and a newspaper article. A good guide to writing a report.

10-11 year olds
Pupils

GCSE Bitesize Revision - English

Taking GCSE English? Here are some useful aids to revision. The site looks at a wide variety of aspects such as composing essays, to work on set texts. There is a section on Standard Grade English if you are in Scotland.

14-16 year olds
Pupils

Discovering Ancient Egypt

Subjects covered include Pyramids and Temples, Kings and Queens, hieroglyphic writing and Egyptian mathematics.

11-18 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Tips on doing a book review

Just what the title says. This step-by-step guide will help you know what to include when you write a book review.

5-7 year olds
Pupils

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.

5-11 year olds
Pupils

Over 300 Words to Use Instead of Said

A brilliant list of alternative words to use as an alternative to said. There is a desktop version with examples of the words in sentences and also a useful mobile version of the site. Words are arranged according to emotions.

7-14 year olds
Pupils
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