Literacy Resources

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Reading is fundamental to children's literacy and phonological awareness. Literacy is a key part learning. Time to teach provides literacy hour resources for all teachers to enjoy, use and share. Our literacy teaching resources were created especially for teachers, children and homeschooling. Time to teach has been recommended by education services around the world.

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English literacy for more reading resources.

English Language for students where English is their second language.

Great typing games - You can teach a whole class of children typing for free on line.

Click here for loads of great free literacy and numeracy games.

You can also click here to play a scrabble like game.
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Camelsdale school :- Loads of exciting links, but you need to go to the site to see them (for Reception (age 4 – Year 2) Click Here

Kent National Grid for learning - Click here

Download the PowerPoint presentations (allow up to 4 minutes each!) Click here

'Hey Diddle Diddle', with additional slides featuring the children's ideas Click here

Interactive comprehension - Children see a slide containing information about tigers. Then they are asked questions about the text. Click here

Interactive Quiz : Children are quizzed on the meaning of adjectives, verbs and nouns and are told whether their choices are correct or incorrect. Click here

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Active and passive help explain active and passive verbs and the difference between them. Click here

Alphabetical order A neat little MS Powerpoint presentation about putting words into alphabetical order by the first, second and third letters. Click here

B - words - The resource is intended for use in Reception/Key Stage 1 as a short reinforcement activity in recognising the spelling some common words with B as the beginning sound with animations and sound effects. Click here

ch_sh_th This one deals with recognising words that begin with the three sounds ch, sh, th. Click here

cvc words presentation Consonant - Vowel – Consonant. Great for reinforcing those phonemes! Click here

cvcs - CVC words are illustrated and animated letter by letter. Click here

Final phonemes - What is the last letter .... Click here

CVC words - Each picture is followed by the word letter by letter. - Click here

Spelling1: uses as a way of revising the typical spelling patterns that commonly appear in the KS2 Sats. Click here

ADDING -ing deals with adding -ing. - Click here

The Highwayman The ppt includes the text of the narrative poem "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes, an activity for learning the more challenging words from the text and identifies metaphors, similes and onomatopoeias within the text. - Click here

Direct speech - to help children get to grips with the correct use of speech marks and their associated punctuation. Click here

Technology assisting literacy knowledge – (TALK) Click here

Elements of a story - Students will use this activity to analyze the elements of a story. Click here

Inferencing - In this online activity students will read a story about a frog named Sniffy and a fish named Fluffy. Used as a whole group activity teacher can prompt students to use appropriate comprehension strategies while they are reading. Click here

Sequencing events - Students will use this activity to sequence the events of a story. Click here

In the news - Current events provide interesting and engaging topics for discussion and reading. In this lesson you may opt to use the site, View of the News, in a variety of ways. Click here

Drippy the Raindrop - In this lesson students will be reading a story about Drippy the Raindrop and his adventures through the water cycle. Click here

Story Teller - Read or listen to a story and retell the story and provide authentic illustrations as the story is told. Click here

Spring Story - Read a PowerPoint book about spring then use the Kidspiration Activity to show how you use your five senses to observe spring. Click here

Turkey Turkey - Retell or write a story and provide authentic illustrations as the story is told. Click here

Ferl First - Click here

Loads of exciting Literacy resources- Tooter 4 Kids! Click here

World of Teaching - has lots of English presentations for everyone (KS1 - KS4).

Lee Summit District

Jefferson County Schools - too many to list as the list keeps changing, and going out of date.

Sample Haikus Click here

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