Literacy+Links

=__ Click onto a link for fun learning! __= English Interactives accompanied with comprehensive lesson plans to support them. ||= || [|Wordsmith] A dictionary site that is integrated with a thesaurus and also helps you to generate vocabulary sheets and quizes. ||= || Find out about almost any author for children from this database. ||= || [|Stories from the Web] Designed for 7-11 yr olds. Read stories and poems online and do other literacy related activities. The site was created for a library. ||= || A very well presented site with a large bank of poems. There is also some information about poets. ||= || [|The Spellits] From the BBC and designed for seven to 10 year olds. ||= || Again there are a huge number of resources in this section. ||= || [|Read to Feed] Part of an organisation where children can participate in readathon type events to help buy animals for people in third world countries. This link leads you to games and activities on their website as well as real stories of the children helped by the project. ||= || An awesome resource that explores eight reading strategies for children to use. Very engaging and with a great teacher section as well. ||= || [|Writing with Writers] A site by Scholastic on how to write in various genres with advice from real authors. ||= || A site built around a Fairground theme where childen can practise their English skills. ||= || [|Scholastic Games] A large number of aciivities for kids. Many are based around specific texts from Scholastic but they can often stand alone as a good activity. ||= || An excellent site with great interactive activities to help children learn about features of each of these texts and have a go at designing their own. ||= || [|Using Similes to Enhance Writing] Scroll down to the interactive links at the bottom of the page - excellent quality lesson resource. ||= || Find out about ever genre of writing and use the text organisers (which you can print) to organise your ideas. An excellent resource for the teaching of writing!! ||= || [|BookBox] Find out about authors, get tips from them on how to write, read some stories and texts online, and play some word games. || || This free online tool enables you to enter a word and see all a visual map of associated words and concepts. It also shows you parts of speech and the types of lines connecting ideas show you the type of connection. ||= || [|Literacy Matters] Year Three Unit Plans for Literacy. Year 4 plans can be reached using the navigation bar to the left of the page. || || ||   ||   ||   || = = = =
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 * [|ReadWriteThink]
 * [|Authors Index from Scholatic]
 * [|Children's Poetry Archive]
 * [|Woodlands School Literacy Activities]
 * [|Into the Book]
 * [|Faiground Spells]
 * [|Communicating your Ideas with Newspapers, Comics and Posters]
 * [|Writing Fun]
 * [|Visuwords]