Archive for the ‘Literacy’ Category

Bo Solos’ Friendship Quiz

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Bo Solo’s Friendship Quiz is an online comic about Bo, who finds it hard to make friends. As well as PHSCE it contains lots of speaking & Listening opportunities.

TalkDog Comic Online

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

TalkDog is a popular character who will help children discover the secrets to better communication. This site contains games and activities that will help children to become more confident speakers and listeners. The website covers PHSCE and Speaking & Listening.

Further resources from the same BT Education site, K Zone, cover PHSCE, Speaking & Listening, Bullying, and Internet Safety.

Bizzikid

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Bizzikid is a great site for children. It has lots of interesting pages collected together, with info about PSHCE, sport and almost all of the school subjects.

BBC Schools - Literacy

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

5-11 yrs

Digger and the Gang Literacy
Digger and the Gang Literacy
Get set for adventure! Nash, Flick and Sprat’s antics will help you get your English skills on track. Activities designed to test KS1 and KS2 programmes of study.
Teachers

5-9 yrs

Dynamo
Dynamo
Drop into the den for some dynamazing literacy games, including Spellbound and Who’s Spooking Who? ‘Dynamo’ is designed for home use. Have fun with your kids!
Parents

7-11 yrs

Spelling with the Spellits
Spelling with the Spellits
A, B, C’s as easy as 1, 2, 3 when you have the Spellits on hand to help you. Spellits covers the word objectives of years 3 - 6 of the National Literacy Strategy.

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TeachersParents

7-11 yrs

KS2 Revisewise Challenge - English
KS2 Revisewise Challenge - English
Get in training for your tests in May. ‘ReviseWise Challenge’ provides tests for children preparing for their National Tests.

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TeachersParents

7-11 yrs

Revisewise English
Revisewise English
Wise-up to SATs with our interactive revision / test sections and keep an online record of your scores. ‘ReviseWise’ activities are designed to prepare children for the National Tests.

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Espresso

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Espresso aims to stimulate children´s learning through providing a rich cross-curricular resource to help teachers plan and create exciting lessons that meet National Curriculum objectives and cover QCA Schemes of Work. Espresso looks and works like a website but you won´t find it on the Web. It lives on a computer at your school, which means you can access it quickly and reliably whenever you want. What´s more, you get instant access to high-quality full screen video as well as sophisticated multimedia activities that would take forever to download across the Internet.

New resources are automatically added every week to ensure content is always topical. In addition there is also a huge archive of print based resources. Espresso is a self-contained site - there´s no links to the World Wide Web which means safe surfing is guaranteed. Espresso is the proud winner of two BETT 2004 awards for Best Online Learning Resource and Best Primary software. Espresso web site.