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This BBC website has lots of interesting stories for young children: Beebie and the caterpillar, The Rupee tree, Beebie and the tortoise, Kevin the spaceman, Blue cow in the playground, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Lion and the Mouse for Key Stage 1 children, plus Tweenies Storytime, and Fimbles Comfy Corner Stories as well. |
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Explore Rainbow Edge - Nursery Rhyme characters and their origins. Simple stories based on the nursery rhymes. Comprehension work for Y2 to Y4 |
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Three interactive talking storybooks from the Little
Animals Activity Centre - activities linked to BBC programme for KS1.
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Topsy and Tim storybooks on screen. fun and games includes phonics, links in with people who help us. Different levels of games with teacher notes aimed at Foundation and Key Stage 1 |
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The nest: Online Big book Recommended for KS1 |
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Little Animals Activity Centre. Word activities for KS1: Matching; Rhymes; First Letters |
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When I grow up (USA) Online Big book: Rhyming Text. Suitable for Key Stage 1. |
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How about a picnic? (USA) Online big book: Rhyming Text suitable for Key Stage 1. |
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Shall we make a mad dash? (USA) Rhyming Text suitable for Key Stage 1. |
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Star Light, Star Bright (USA) Online big book suitable for Key stage 1 children. |
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The Cow Girl Princess (USA) Online storybook suitable for Key Stage 1children. |
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Online activities linked to Literacy Strategy and National curriculum guidelines. Activities include: alphabetical order and CVC words for KS1 to plurals, apostrophes and speech marks for KS2. worth visiting |
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BBC words and Pictures: Phonics Year 2; CVC words; Consonant clusters; Long vowel sounds; High Frequency Words.Includes printable resources |
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Excellent resource site for Literacy. covers activities in every year group from Reception to Year 6 |
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The Adventures of Steven Seagull. An exciting interactive story, produced by LGfL, about a seagull's trip to Morecambe. Good links to Geography topic about different localities. Suitable for Key Stage 1 |
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Fairy Tale Land: Brilliant Site, part of LGfL. Activites have NLS links for Reception, Year1 and Year 2 plus teachers notes.Activities for Little Red Riding Hood, The Gingerbread Man, Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Ugly Duckling. Definitely worth a visit. Move your mouse over the picture to show where the links to the stories are. |
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On-line exercise: Add capital letters and full stops to these sentences then write some of your own. |
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Activities
Linked to "Developing Early Writing" and "Progression in
Phonics" National Literacy Strategy -DfES Raising Standards Documents |
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Matching and rhyming word games with three levels for Key stage 1 and possibily Lower Key Stage 2 |
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Visit Pooh Country!! Literacy Activities for children to carry out while they explore Pooh's countryside. |
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Robbie Bear Goes to Lapland: Children can read or listen to this online book read by the Reception children of St Laurence C.E Primary School, Chorley |
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Six big books by Sebastian Swan. Includes details for teachers on how to view pages off-line. Pages of the books contain questions; to find the answer simply click on the question mark. The pages also contain more detailed definitions for older Key Stage 1 children; click on the words that are underlined to find these. |
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Shall we make a mad dash? (USA) Online Big book: rhyming Text. Suitable for Key Stage 1 |
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BBC: Listen and Write Writing activities, audio poems, a gallery of children's work and much, much more! Listen and write activities for ages 9-11 to support the radio programme but can also be used on their own. |
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Antelope Publishing Ongoing Tales: Forever changing each month but has a fairy tale or folk tale, a poem, A chapter from a children's old time story book, A chapter from a Bible story. |
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How about a picnic? (USA). Online Big book. Rhyming Text - suitable for Key Stage 2: |
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A Martian Halloween: (USA) Online Big book. Find out what happens when a martian visits Earth at Halloween. suitable for Key stage 2. Rhyming Text. |
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Aesops Fables: Online Collection Over 655 fables. Suitable for Key Stage 2 |
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Myths about gods of olden cultures: Myths about Roman, Egyptian, Saxon and Viking Gods. Useful for Key Stage 2 Literacy and History. |
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BBC Revisewise: Literacy. Revision site for Key Stage 2 SAT's. contains online activities which may be also suitable for some Year 5 pupils. |
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BBC Wordmaster: Literacy activities for 9 to 11 Year Olds. |
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CBBC Newsround: contains articles related to current news |
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Lycos Rhymezone: Rhyming dictionaries. (e.g.. for use in NLS Year 4 Term 1 for composing jingles). |
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Rhyming dictionaries. (e.g.. for use in NLS Year 4 Term 1 for composing jingles) |
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A visual thesaurus. Wait for the program to load then click to launch. Type in your word and follow the threads of meaning. |
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Idioms: Children can choose to read various idioms and see them used in context. Year 5 Term 1. Also Fluency through Fables: To aid comprehension. |
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Words that imply gender, including the 'ess' suffix. NLS Year 4 Term 2. |
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Speech Marks: Add speech marks to this online text activity. |
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LITTLE EXPLORERS (USA) makes surfing the Internet very easy. A picture-dictionary format is used to link to hundreds of carefully-chosen child-friendly sites around the world. Since the pictures are links, even pre-readers can surf with a minimum of help and guidance from their favourite adult. Older children can use Little Explorers as a school reference. |
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Myths and legends from all cultures. The text can be accessed at three levels; beginner, intermediate and advanced. |
