English Resources

Useful sites

• Digital learning for Wales

• Commuicating ideas using newspapers

• Elements of a story using Cinderella

• Folk Legends Japan

• Grammar Ninja

• Grammaropolis

• Into the Book

• Harry Potter Site (Scholastic)

• Share What You Are Reading 

• Starfall

• Story Map (at Read Write Think)

• Story Starters (at Meddybemps)

• Today's Front Pages 

• Tumble Book Library

• Wacky Web Tales

News from around the World

• BBC CBBC Newsround

• TRTÉ news2day

Infants

• Berenstain Bears

• Bobinogs (at BBC)

• British Council (Games for Learning English) 

• Building Language for Literacy(Scholastic) 

• Infant Explorer

• Roy the Zebra

Poetry

• Giggle Poetry

• Humorous Cat Peoms

• Poetry Idea Machine (at Scholastic) 

• Poems (at Read Write Think) 

Resources

• Flashcards

• Homonym List

• Idiom List

• Little Explorers English Picture Dictionary

• Micrositas Virtual Picturebooks 

• Puzzlemaker

Whole Class Activities

• BBC Magic Keys (Literacy Activities)

• Big Brown Bear Software

• CBeebies Games (at BBC)

• Encyclopaedia Britannica Games Collection

• Fís book club

• Fun English Games 

• Interactive wordplays

• Kids Spell

• Kidpsych Interactive Games

• Knoword (dictionary game)

• KS1 Bitesize Literacy Activities (at BBC) 

• KS2 Bitesize English Activities (at BBC) 

• Learning Chocolate Vocabulary Games 

• Literacy Center Education Network 

• Primary Games Arena (English Games) 

• Primary Interactive

• Reading Planet Games

• Road To Grammar 

• Spelling City 

• Spelling Match Game

• The Cat in the Hat Games (at PBS Games) 

• Vocabulary Building

• Sadlier Phonics Activities 

• Solve Mall (Word Games)  

• Student Interactives (at Read Write Think)  

• Toy Theater - Reading  

• Vocabulary Learning Fun 

• Word Central Games

Online Books /  E-Books

• The Aesop for Children (Library of Congress) 

• Children's Storybooks Online  

• Fantastic Fiction 

• International Children's Digital Library 

• Read.Gov - Classic Books (at Library of Congress) 

• Salariya Web Books

• World of Tales

English Dictionaries

• Define It Fast

• Dictionarist (Talking Dictionary) 

• Dictionary.Com 

• Google (Put Define: before word in Google search) 

• Graph Words (Visual Thesaurus) 

• Little Explorers Dictionary 

• Meaning of Names 

• Memidex 

• Snappy Words (Visual Dictionary) 

• Synonyms For 

• Thesaurus.Com 

• Visual Dictionary Online 

• Word Central 

• Wordsmyth (Illustrated Dictionary for Kids) 

• Your Dictionary