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Literacy/English Key Stage 2
Last updated: 29/8/08

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(All the literacy on The Lighthouse for Education including latest Literacy News)

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General

  1. The Discovery Centre - a virtual representation of the Discovery Centre in Cleethorpes consisting of images and text about animals, insects and the beach.
    This is part of the Clicker Lighthouse tlfe.org.uk/clicker
  2. http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/index.htm (All sorts of interactive activities for Literacy)
  3. http://www.biblomania.com/ (Hundreds of searchable full text works of classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries - excellent resource)
  4. http://www.candlelightstories.com (Lots of Literacy material and links to other sites)
  5. http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html (The Children’s Literature Web Guide)
  6. http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/%7Ejlynch/Lit/ (Literacy sites)
  7. http://www.bartleby.com/quotations/ (Famous quotations)
  8. http://www.bartleby.com/ (Literature, reference and verse)
  9. http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ - Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.
  10. http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/Curriculum/Literacy.htm (Good Resources for Durham)
  11. http://www.northwood.org.uk/literacy.htm (Spelling activities)

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Books and Stories

  1. The Fun Fiction Factory - writing is fun and very useful too! On this blog you can have a go at writing stories and poems for other people to read. So come on you budding authors get blogging! http://funfiction.edublogs.org/
    (If you can't watch the videos on the pages, then check out the videos on the blogroll)
  2. http://www.legendworld.co.uk/ (The web site of the book A Dragon in Cleethorpes - click on 'Latest News' or 'Lost Dragons' to see work from pupils in N.E.Lincs.)
  3. http://www.northpole.com/ (Father Christmas)
  4. http://www.emailsanta.com/ (Write to Father Christmas and the reply appears before your eyes!)
  5. http://www.roalddahl.com/ (The official Roald Dahl web site)
  6. http://www.narnia.com (find out all about the world of the Narnia books)
  7. http://www.oup.co.uk/ort/ (The Oxford Reading Tree)
  8. http://www.lynnechapman.co.uk/ (Lynn Chapman,writer and illustrator of children's books web site)
  9. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/paulandemmarogers/ (Paul and Emma Rogers web site)
  10. http://www.annefine.co.uk/ (Anne Fine's web site)
  11. http://www.myhomelibrary.org ('My Home Library' - download lots of different bookplates)

Book Reviews

  1. http://www.kidsatrandomhouse.co.uk/ (Book Reviews and more about books)
  2. http://www.achuka.co.uk (Book Reviews and more about books)

Poetry

  1. http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/%7Etpl/lit/poetry.html (Enormous list of poetry web sites)
  2. http://www.pmpoetry.com/ (List of poetry web sites)
  3. http://www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk/index2.htm (Poetry Zone - lots of poems, ideas and links to poets web sites)
  4. http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/ (The Poetry Society - information about poetry)
  5. http://www.poetryclass.net/ (A joint venture between the Poetry Society and the DfES to provide online workshops to help the teaching of poetry)
  6. http://www.pottypoets.com/ (A collection of 'Potty Poetry'!)

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Harry Potter

  1. http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/home.asp (Harry Potter - the official site)
  2. http://harrypotter.warnerbros.com/ (Harry Potter - the official film site)
  3. http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/harrypotter/ (More Harry Potter from Bloomsbury books)
  4. http://www.harrypotterguide.co.uk/ (The unofficial Harry Potter site)
  5. http://www.harrypotterfans.net/potterica/ (Encyclopedia for Harry Potter)
  6. http://www.kidsreads.com/harrypotter/ (Information about Harry Potter)
  7. http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/ (The Harry Potter Lexicon - reference)

Shakespeare

  1. http://www.folger.edu/education/teaching.htm (For everything Shakespeare including lesson plans!)
  2. http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/ (The complete works of Shakespeare)
  3. http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/ (Search the works of Shakespeare)
  4. http://www.rdg.ac.uk/globe/ (About Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre)

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Words

  1. http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html (Make anagrams)
  2. http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ (Wacky stories – fill in the gaps)
  3. http://www.pencils.com/ (All about pencils)

Ideas

  1. http://www.cricksoft.com/ (Ideas & downloads for Clicker 3, 4 and more)

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General
Books and Stories
Book Reviews
Poetry
Harry Potter sites
Shakespeare
Words
Ideas
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