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Sunshine
Online
A resource where pupils are taught to use their knowledge,
understanding and skills to enhance their literacy.
Waning
Moon
An introduction to writing haiku poems and the history and nature of
haiku poetry.
Legends
Exploring the history, literature and lore surrounding Robin Hood,
King Arthur and other swashbuckling characters of balladry, fiction
and film.
The
Martin Amis Web
Profiling the work of the author Martin Amis
Vocabulary
Stretching Games
Stretch your brain and improve your vocabulary
Stone
Soup
The international magazine by young writers and artists.
Bookworm
Site of the popular BBC programme.
National
Poetry Day
Read (and hear) the nation's favourite comic poems.
BBC
Education Archive
Always something new to learn. Choose a subject and expand the sum of
your human knowledge.
Aesop's
Fables
Traditional and modern versions of the much-loved tales.
A
Celebration of Women Writers
Promoting awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing.
Online
English Grammar
Don't know the difference between possessive and reflexive pronouns?
Step this way.
Index
of Poets
Information on hundreds of poets and poems. Search by poet, poem
title, first line, date or keywords.
Yahoo
News
Today's top news stories and headlines courtesy of Reuters and Yahoo.
Writing
and Resistance
A valuable research tool covering African-American literature.
World
Book Day
Includes an animated history of books.
World
Wide Words
Devoted to the English language and its history, quirks, curiosities
and evolution.
Words
R Us
The fun way to supercharge your vocabulary.
Word
Detective
A custom seek and find word search game that can be played both
online or away from the computer.
Wild
Word of Words
Spelling, decoding, word building and word meanings.
The
Write Site
A multimedia language arts curriculum that makes the process of
telling a story fun.
The
Internet Public Library
The first public library of, and for, the Internet.
Tales
of Wonder
Folk and fairy tales from around the world.
Surfing
with the Bard
The Shakespeare classroom on the World Wide Web.
Spelling
Skill Builders
Spelling strategies and word lists to help pupils become better
spellers.
Argosphere
A collection of resources and activities that can be downloaded and
used offline.
Fake
Out!
The definition guessing game.
Reading
Room
Stories, poetry and more from the Cyberkids web site.
Spellaroo
Unfortunately, Spellaroo can hop better than he can spell. Help him
spell twenty words correctly to travel to the Land of the Joeys.
Shakespeare
4 Kidz
Information, news, interactive features and everything you need to
know about putting on your very own Shakespeare extravaganza.
The
Internet Poetry Archive
Includes poets' comments on their works and audio clips of several
poems.
The
Royal Shakespeare Company
Full of fascinating interviews, plot summaries and interpretation
games - all designed to give an insight into their productions.
Inkspot
The writer's resource for budding authors.
Crayon
Create your own newspaper on the web - and it's free!
Bohemian
Ink
The underground literary review.
Poems
by Carol Ann Duffy
Includes reviews of her poetry and an interview.
Classic
Short Stories
Updated each month, this site is dedicated to the short story and to
those who love reading light prose.
Caribbean
Literature
Information and links to Caribbean authors and their works.
India
World
Dedicated entirely to Indian poetry - in English and in translation.
The
Book Case
Promoting books and the pleasure of reading.
The
Young Writers Club
Encourages children of all ages to enjoy writing as a creative
pastime by getting them to share their work and help each other
improve their writing abilities.
Kid
News
A free news and writing service for pupils and teachers around the
world.
InSites
An alphabetical listing of links to individual poets' web sites.
English
Teaching in the UK
A forum for teachers of English with plenty of links to resources.
The
Quotations Page
Originally developed as a catalogue of quotation resources, and now
evolved into a large-scale searchable quotation site with many
original resources.
Peter
Finch Archive
Extensive site constructed by the poet himself. Also includes
information on how to publish your own poetry.
The
English Server
A comprehensive and diverse body of scholarship, art, journals,
novels and collection of texts - you can contribute your own work too.
The
National Literacy Trust
Working towards enhancing literacy standards throughout the United
Kingdom.
Newswise
A free educational resource specially designed to improve literacy.
Based on topical stories selected or adapted from the national press.
OK
UK Books
OKUK Books is the best place to choose children's books - not only do
they feature details of books and their front covers, but many of the
books will have reviews written by children.
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