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Alphabet timeline

Fascinating moving timeline showing the development of our alphabet.

BBC Schools - Parents

Search for english activities, worksheets or games, by age.

BBC Skillswise

Grammar, spelling, reading, writing and vocabulary activities from Skillswise.

British Library

Explore literary treasures, everyday ephemera, and the complex history of the English language, with unique texts from the British Library collection.

Can I Have A Word?

Can I Have A Word? has been developed by Barbican Education, providing ideas to inspire creative writing.

Chambers

Free worksheets from Chambers - for age ranges 7-11, 9-14 and 10-14.

Dancemat Typing

Great site from the BBC, with 12 stages to work through teaching kids to touch type.

English Basics

Original grammar worksheets for teachers and parent-teachers to copy for their kids. Use them for teaching, reinforcement, and review.

English Resources

Hundreds of free resources to download for teaching and revising English Language and Literature.

ESL Mania

Although a site aimed at teachers teaching english as a second language, it has a good range of vocab, grammar and english skills resources that can be used to teach english grammar.

Every Object Tells A Story

Every Object Tells A Story is a collection of stories about objects, written by people like you about objects you care about. Every Object Tells A Story has devised a series of classroom activities that will help teachers to explore museum objects with their pupils in order to: develop their questioning skills; consider the significance of objects in people's everyday lives; and understand people from different time periods or cultures.

Guardian Weekly Worksheets

Lesson plans for ELT and ESL featuring contemporary cultural happenings. The worksheets include teacher's notes and activities based around a recent news article from the Guardian Weekly. The activities focus on vocabulary and speaking.

Guided reading with Roy the Zebra

Roy: Tale of a Singing Zebra is a nine part online story about following your dreams, making friends and seeking adventure. The site has resources to go with the story, and interactive literacy games.

Handwriting for Kids

Tracing guides, letter practice, basic words worksheets.

Handwriting Practice Pages

Print the Handwriting Practice Pages to make a handwriting book for each letter of the alphabet. For each letter, there are 5 different printable pages for 2 styles of writing. The first five are Zaner Bloser style, the next five are D'Nealian style.

KidPub Children's Publishing

Kidpub claims to be the largest collection of stories by children on the Internet (and maybe in the real world, too). They've been on the web since 1995, and their database holds just over 46,000 stories written by and for children.

Kids' Place

Kids' games and activities for reading, language arts, social studies, and more.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

The updated edition of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English CD-ROM includes Teacher’s Lesson Plans, some of which are available here on line, together with other worksheets.

Quizville

Thirteen different Spelling Games - Hangman, Crossword Puzzles, Bing Bang Boom etc. Use pre-made spelling lists from Houghton-Mifflin, Scott Foresman, Hampton-Brown, Dolch Site Words etc.

Reading A-Z

30 free books to download for learning reading.

RHL School

Featuring free reading comprehension worksheets for teachers and parents to copy for their kids. They include original stories, poems, essays, and articles. They a re most appropriate for upper elementary through middle school years.

Sheppard Software

Online word games and vocabulary games.

Spelling It Right

Free Printable Worksheets from Spelling it Right.

Storytelling

Includes: "A Day in the Life.." tales in Ancient History", Everything you need to put a Storytelling Lesson together, Using images to create a newspaper article (templates provided), Basic Apostrophe Presentation, All singing, all dancing Apostrophe Presentation, Complete Commas, Colons and Semi-colons Presentation, Planning sheet on how to encourage students to put together a short "talk", and Introduce the concept of how text can change an image using this Powerpoint Presentation.

Turning the Pages

Turning the Pages™ uses the Shockwave plug-in, which can be downloaded from the Adobe website, to simulate the action of turning the pages of a real book. Read through 15 great books and magnify the details.

Your Dictionary

So you like word games, do you? Well, you have come to the right place. They have the richest assortment of crossword puzzles on the planet: anagram puzzles, cryptic puzzles, Roman and Arabic numeral puzzles, study puzzles for geography, physics, astronomy, Spanish and the Bible, puzzles with holiday messages, with graphics and web links. Now they have crossword puzzles for kids and encrypted word puzzles and a new invention: fill-in crossword puzzles!