Useful links: Literacy
We have collected together links to some really great websites for many different subject areas, which you can explore in the other pages in this section.
On this page we have links to websites for both Key Stage 1 and 2, to help with their literacy.
If you come across any links that aren't working, please let Mr Morrison know.
Key Stage 1
- Stories from other countries - Stories to read from around the world
- First school years - worksheets, online activities
- Sight words - online activities - graded
- Early Years Resources - NGFL Wales
- Key Stage 1 Resources - NGFL Wales
- The Little Red Ship - story and activities for Reception and Year 1
- Animal Stories - BBC CBeebies stories
- Fairy Tales - BBC CBeebies stories,click on the book to hear and see it
- Story Book Web - listen to stories read by the authors and do the activities
- Look, Cover, Write and Check - the Ambleside one
- Writing invitations - using ICT
- Writing lists and instructions - using ICT
- Alphabetical order - put in the missing letter
- The Adventure of Steven Seagull - he's visiting Morecambe
- Oxford Tree Database - create your own using Biff, Chip and friends
- Capital letters and full stops - complete the activities
- The Magic Key - games to play using the characters from the Oxford Reading Tree
- Starship English - sentences spinning in space, make your own as well
- Junior I Spy - reading and comprehension
- Digger and the gang - BBC online activities, reading, sorting and comprehension
- Little Animal Activity centre - BBC online activities, with end sounds, first sounds and rhymes
Key Stage 2
- Beginning to Write Instructions - Y3 for use with white board
- Literacy - Children's University of Manchester
- The Bride of Frankenstein - writing drama
- Creating a story and a poem - interactive whiteboard
- Writing a haiku - information and activities
- Diamante Poetry - explanations and then write your own
- Writing a newspaper report - interactive activity
- Newspapers and persuasive writing - interactive activity
- Creating poetry and stories - interactive activity
- World Book Day
- The Mole- lots of facts from the BBC, with pictures
- Homophones - click on the quiz to test your knowledge
- Digger and the gang - (lower juniors) in a haunted house
- Digger and the gang - (upper juniors) on a holiday and finding a stolen statue
- Spellits - BBC schools site. Improve your spelling here
- BBC Bitesize - challenge
- Literacy - Lots of interactive games for you to try to improve spelling and more, really KS3 work
- Bookbox - authors and their books, plus games
- War of the Worlds - pages about the Radio Play
- Giggle Poetry - great site for reading and writing poetry
- Fizzy Funny poetry - great site