19 Literacy Links
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Spelling and Grammar Rules
Sound Training have a free demo with a video and some pdf downloads illustrating how their online teaching system.
Story Time For Me
A range of narrated stories for children up to 8 years old.
More than 30 free books and plans to add 1-2 new books each month. It's like Starfall in that it's free to the public and no registration is required.
Sunflower
Find out what happens when Bonny plants a sunflower seed. Animated story with little text to encourage observation skills.
Myths and Legends
Create your own stories using the characters, props and backgrounds provided.
Or upload your own images to create your own legend.
Using the E2BN Story Creator.
Lug And The Giant Storks
Can you use capital letters?
From the BBC’s Magic Key series.
The Wooden Horse
An animated and narrated retelling of the classic Greek myth.
Apostrophes
A set of resources exploring the correct use of apostrophes.
Explaining both contraction and possession.
Sentence Maker
Place the jigsaw words to make sentences about the toys.
Word Play
Click on the word and see it in action.
Make A Word
Make words with the long e sound.
Use the pictures to help make the correct word.
Alphabet
Watch letters being formed and listen to the sounds they make.
Who Am I?
Build a description and picture of yourself with narration.
Spellbound
The spelling activities are integrated into 3 games, making learning fun and providing motivation for the children to complete all the activities. Once in the site, the children should be able to work independently through the activities as there are support functions built into the games.
Compound Words
This set of resources provides a range of activities to explain and reinforce the meaning of compound words.
Sentence Types
Choose which type of sentence from a list of four.
My Shadow
An animated and narrated version of the Robert Louis Stevenson poem.
Anagrams
Can you solve the anagrams before you run out of time?
Vowel Sounds
A multiple choice quiz based on identifying the correct vowel sound for a given word.
Collaborative writing
Children can read stories they have written, stories written by other children, and stories written by us.
Children can write their own stories, linking up with other children in producing fantastic three-part stories.
