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.
Hamiliton Trust Literacy and Numeracy Planning
A useful site with quality literacy and numeracy plans for primary teachers. The charitable trust now requests a small subscription to access the resources.
The National Literacy Trust
The Trust maintains an online database, and provides information and support to all those interested in enhancing literacy standards. It organises seminars and conferences.
Letter Formation
This site has excellent animations which provide a good model for learners starting to write letters. They indicate the starting points and proper strokes required. Works well on an interactive whiteboard.
Karate Cats
A Key Stage 1 English game where you need to complete sentences, find the correct spellings and choose the correct places for full stops.
Noun Explorer
A game where you need to click on the fish with the noun to feed a worm to the fish.
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.
Guided Reading and Reading Games with Roy the Zebra
A wonderful guided reading story with accompanying printable worksheets and guided reading discussion sheets. There are 80 interactive literacy games, stories and songs for use in school or at home. Well worth a look!
Look, Cover, Write, Check
A brilliant version of the spelling site where you can test yourself on high frequency words to test your knowledge.
The Alphabet Song
A catchy song which can help you learn the order of the letters of the alphabet. It uses capital letters rather than lower case letters.
