Literacy+Links

=Interactive......=

Interactive Books [|Looky Book] [|Children's Library]

[|DigiLearn] [|Time Magazine for Kids] [|Dust Echoes]- Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories - Video

=**Interactive Web Games **= [|Parts of Speech Games] [|Worksheet Works] - Great for creating your own worksheets for drill and practise (e.g. parts of speech)

Adverbs
[|**Alien Word Mine**] **-** (iknowthat.com) choose adverbs [|Rags to Riches] (similar to Who Wants to be a Millionaire) [|Adverb Battleships] [|Supernova Sentence Puzzles] - (iknowthat.com) choose adverbs [|Rocket Word Tag] - (iknowthat.com) choose adverbs [|Learn at Global] - Adjectives & Adverbs Grammar Show [|Using Adverbs] - includes whiteboard lessons for interactive whiteboard - good teaching focus! [|BBC Bitesize Adjectives & Adverbs] - revision bite & quiz

Alliteration
[|Guess the alliteration]

Apostrophes
[|Apostrophes] - BBC skillwise - factsheets, games & quizes [|Contractions] - quia [|Match the contraction] - match the cards to make a contraction

Collective Nouns
[|Collect Nouns]- wonderful illustrations - click on the collective noun (fun school) [|**Crickweb**]

Comma
[|Using Commas] - bbc Skill Wise - factsheets, games & quizes

**Compound Words**
[|BBC Bite Size] - Compound & Complex sentences [|Compound Words] - Cricketweb

Common Errors/Confusing Words
[|BBC Skill Wise Confusing words] (factsheet, game & quiz)

**Conjunctions**

 * [|Conjunctions quiz]**

Double Consonants
[[[|http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar4.htm#|Fish] 'em Up]] - game - choose the correct spelling (ed, ing, y) [|Spelling Quiz] - adding ed & ing

**Double Negatives**
[|Double Negatives] - bbc factsheet, game & quiz)

Grammar & Punctuation Activities
– lots of different grammar/punctuation activities [|Woodlands Junior] [|Games Aquarium] [|Reading Links] - Loads of activities for reading [|Grammar Ninja] - if you know your grammar you will love this game [|Verbs] - present, past & future verbs by Cricketweb - drag the word to the correct place [|Changing Nouns to Singular Plural] - Cricketweb
 * [|My Monster]** – Using similes, adjectives, etc to develop figurative poetry.

Homophones/Homographs
[|Homophone Dictionary] - a definition and a list of homophones in alphabetical order [|BBC Skill Wise] - factsheets and activities about homophones [|Super Match Game] - match the correct Homophone (good game)

Nouns
[|Alien Word Mine] Nouns (Iknowthat.com) [|Rats Common & Proper Nouns] (Learning Planet) [|Grammar Blast] - check sentences for proper & common nouns (Eduplace) [|Plural Girls] (Funbrain)

Poetry
[|My Monster] Using Similes & adjectives in a poem. [|Giggle Poetry] - read and rate funny poetry

Reading Strategies
[|Fact & Opinion] (BBC Schools Skillswise) [|Fact & Opinion](Teaching & Learning Resource) [|Summarising] (BBC Schools Skillwise) [|PROBE] [|Authors Purpose] (a Video from YouTube explaining the different reasons for writing) [|Authors Purpose Quiz] (read passage and choose the correct answer- by Reading Skills Rocket)

Sentences
[|Is this a sentence] - BBC SkillWise [|Putting Sentences Together] - BBC SkillWise, factsheets, games & quizzes [|Penguins On Ice] - easy game where you drag words to make sentences [|Sentence Structure Review] (simple, complex & compound) [|Simple, Compound & Complex Sentences]

Similes
[|Similes Matching Game] (English Grammar)

Spelling
[|Look, Cover, Say, Type & Check] - an EXCELLENT site for practicing your spelling by Crickweb [|Prefixes & Suffixes]- BBC Bitesize Revision [|Word Selector] -helps you to remember the medium frequecy words [|Gater Smash]- smash the words that are spelt incorrectly

=Suffixes= [|Suffix Matching Game] - Match the words to make a suffix [|Sadlier Suffixes] - Choose from a list of suffixes. Has an audio component. Great for Speech. [|Maggie Earth's Adventure] s - match the suffixes & the prefixes (good game) [|BBC Suffix Quiz] - test what you know about Suffixes. You can also play a game and check out the fact sheets!

**Synonyms & Antonyms**
[|Using English] [|Learning Planet Crossword] crossword! Use a thesaurus (word) to help you – it’s a little tricky [|Sadlier Oxford] antonyms click on the antonyms __Synonyms[|Manatee]__ [|Same Different]

[|Oz Speller] - Online Spelling Tutor [|Eight Letters in Search of a Word]

=Plurals= [|BBC - Plurals Rule Game]

=**Portmanteau Words**=

Portmanteau Words
[|Quia] - book illustrating portmanteau words Quia - [|Play hangman] once you have read the 'portmanteau words book'!

Pronouns
[|Supernova Sentence Puzzles] - (iknowthat.com) choose prepositions [|BBC Personal Pronouns] (skillwise) [|Pronoun Choices] (by Quia)

Proofreading
[|Eduplace Proofreading Flash]

Prefixes
[|Race to Ramses] - cool game where you have to beat robbers in a toom [|QUIA] - select the correct meaning for the prefix word. [|Building Prefixes] – building prefixes ~ match meanings to prefix words [|BBC Skills Wise - Prefixes] - - BBC Skill Wise – revision and activities about prefixes [|English On Line] - game where you need to pick the right prefix to build a tower.

Prepositions
[|Supernova Sentence Puzzles] - (iknowthat.com) choose prepositions [|Alien Word Mine] - (iknowthat.com) choose prepositions

Punctuation
[|Spelling & Grammar Punctuation Quiz] - BBC Schools Bitesize [|Punctuate the sentences] - add full stops, capital letters to the sentences [|The Magic Key] - BBC Full Stop Game [|Dragon Land] - BBC Question Marks [|Commas] - BBC skillwise [|Insert Speech marks] - insert speechmarks into the text [|Don't Use Said] - speech marks

Silent Letters
[|Silent Invaders by Skill Wise] - factsheets, quizes, games & worksheets [|Rags to Riches] - similar to Who wants to be a millionaire

Spellling Look, Cover, Say, Type & Check - BRILLIANT site for spelling practise

Tense
[|Getting the right tense] - BBC skillwise factsheets, quizes, games & worksheets

Writing
[|Story Sequencer] - sequencing and storyboarding activity (story structure and summarising key events in stories) - Cricketweb [|Edit Dan's Copy] - Edit Dan's report by looking for the correct punctuation, etc [|Sequencing Events in Instruction Texts] [|Planning a Story] - BBC Bitesize revision [|Writing a Story - Beginnings & Endings] - BBC Bitesize revision. [|Writing letters] - BBC Bitesize revision [|Writing Leaflets] - BBC Bitesize revision [|Writing Instructions] - BBC Bitesize revision [|Writing an Argument] - BBC Bitesize revision [|Writing Fun] - Jenny Eather's web site