English

=Writing= [|Lesson Writer] Create comprehensive literacy lesson plans and student materials from any content in minutes. LessonWriter is completely free,[| register] now!  [|WritingFun] by Jenny Eather [|Non-fiction Writing] PPTs and Templates [|Telescopict Text] Very useful for teaching about extending a sentence for good creating writing and expression [|Choosing Adjectives] A drag and drop activity where you have to drag suitable adjectives into the spaces in a text-a teaching tool [|Super Action-Comic Maker] [|Stories, Rhymes and Games] [|Phrase Builder] Pick a level, then see and listen to a phrase. Then the words are scrambled, and one has to place the words in the correct order as one listens to it again. [] Online comic strip creator [|Story Starters] Story Starters is a bank of writing prompts. Student spins the lever to get a writing prompt. To allow for even greater creativity, the student can spin wheels to change any part of the prompt. [|Story Maker] Photo Peach [| Demo here]

Grammar
[|Word Frog] and [|Furious Frog] provide practice in antonyms, synonyms and homonyms [|Blending Bingo] Blending using the word spinner [|Blends] [|Punctuation Paintball] [|Learning English Online] English Grammar Exerises [|The Magic E machine] [|Adjectives]

[|Poetry]magnetic poetry suitable for first class up [|Poetry for Kids] [|Erin's Children's Poetry Page]

Reading
[] [|Comprehension Exercises] interactive reading activities [|Children's Storybooks online] [] Screen Actors Guild of America recording of actors reading 23 stories - all about 5- 12 minutes long and mostly themed with friendship, moral or human rights story lines. The stories are read by the actors, illustrationsare from the books themselves and are very simple with some animation, the words of the story appear as subtitles on each page.

[|Crossword Puzzle Maker]

[|Lexipedia] Visual online thesaurus

[|Vocabulary Builder] Vocabulary building through games [|The Little Red Ship] []

Spelling :
Video tutorial for Spelling Sites []

[] Create online spelling lists to use on your IWB, or for students to access at home. The website automatically generates games and activities to help children learn their spellings as well as the meanings of the words. []

[|Spellit] BBC Schools

[|Word Builder] is an excellent spelling, vocabulary, and phonics site from Houghton Mifflin. Students are told a word, in the context of a sentence, and then have to spell it. It’s appropriate for classroom use 1st-6th and SEN. Audio and text support is provided.

[|WordBuilder]

[|Word Master] You’re shown a sentence with a word missing (indicated by a blank). Then you have to click on an on-screen keyboard to type the correct word “hangman” style. You can ask for clues, and you’re competing against the clock. You can also choose various levels of difficulty, and the game has thousands of words.

[|Spin and Spell]

[|Magnetic Board]

[|Coconut Vowels] provides practice in spelling. Coconuts with words in them fall to the beach. The student must match letters to make the correct word coconut.

[|Spelling- Bees] Spelling Bees is a multi-player game for spelling words. Students must spell correctly to build their beehives.

[|Fun City] -click on the words that are incorrectly spelled.

[|Tut Pup]

[|Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee]

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