Literacy
    Save The Children - School Link

An exciting new way to find out about children in other countries.

    Poetry4Kids

Numerous poems by Kenn Nesbitt including a newest poem and the Funny forty.

    Dictionary

An online dictionary.

    Thesaurus

An online thesaurus.

    Spywatch

A comic strip adventure, with literacy activities for 7 to 9 year olds. Based on the popular BBC Schools television series of the same name.

    Literacy Time (BECTa)

There has been much said recently about standards in writing, and there are a number of articles and activities on the site which focus on raising standards in writing using ICT.

    The National Literacy Trust

The National Literacy Trust's website and online database is provided on a free access basis to help everyone concerned with promoting literacy in the UK to work collaboratively.

    Rebus Rhymes - Mother Goose and others

Rebus Rhymes is designed for children who are learning how to read. Pre-schoolers and Kindergartners enjoy picking out the words they can read in their favourite nursery rhymes.

    Grandad's Animal Book

This interactive book has a poem and a picture for each of the letters of the English alphabet.

    Dr. Seuss's Seussville!

The Cat in the Hat, Sam-I-Am, Horton and the Who's, and the rest of the Seuss characters welcome you to Seussville, Dr. Seuss's playground in cyberspace.

    Little Explorers

Little Explorers makes surfing the Internet very easy. A picture-dictionary format is used to link to hundreds of carefully-chosen child-friendly sites around the world.

    Classic Literature

Many popular books written by famous writers in text format.

    Literacy (DfEE)

This site supports teachers and others working to improve literacy in schools.

    Wacky Web Tales

An alternative and amusing way to reinforce sentence construction.

    Gaggle!

Gaggle is a fun game that teaches the special words used for groups of animals.