Links Literacy
Here are some links to use to improve your literacy skills. If you find some more, please leave a comment with the URL so they can be added in here.
Spelling
- Spelling City – click on your teacher’s name
- Wordtwist – online game like Boggle
- BBC skillwise spelling
- BBC skillwise vocabulary
- Spelling games – from Woodlands School, Wordgirl, Copacabana,
- Improve your vocab – weboword, word games, mustpop, plurals,
- Word of the day widget for your blog
- Check your misspelled words here
- fantastic choice of vocab games from K-12
Writing
- Myths and legends – write your own
- BBC skillwise writing
- KS3 Bitesize writing
- Writing formats – from Woodlands School, writing fun, model banks,
- Book reports or reviews – using technology, newspaper clipping,
- Story starters – grade K-6, random ideas, great ideas, more K-6 ideas, weekly prompt,
- Writing books – using photos, visual stories, myths and legends, Big Universe, book builder,
- Authors giving help – writing, prompt competition,
- Poetry – instant poems, create a song, theme poem, Shakespeare style, Catch a word, poetry engine,
- Writing – beginning to end, using comics, random words grabbag,
- Choose your own adventure stories to read and write
- Write a mystery here
- The Brainstormer - spin the wheel to get clues for your story
Reading
- BBC skillwise reading
- KS3 Bitesize reading
- Insideadog – great for lists of books to read and competitions
- Games – reading skills,
- Reading planet – includes games and activities
- Book reviews – for children, by children
- National Geographic – book reviews by students
- Big Universe – read books written by students
- Children’s International Digital Library
- Shelfari widget for blog
- Stories in sign language
Grammar and punctuation
- BBC Skillwise grammar
- Grammar and punctuation games – from Woodlands School, grammar ninja, Copacabana, Odysseus, Curriculum bits, grammaropolis,
- Quizzes – road to grammar,
Listening and speaking
- Storynory – listen to stories read aloud
- Interactive stories to listen to
- BBC skillwise listening
- KS3 Bitesize listen,speak, drama
- Storyline - actors reading stories
- Behind the News – ABC news for students
Odds and ends
- Shakespeare – scenes, summaries,
- Maths, Science and English needed to play these games
- College level – all subjects – games and skills
- Read/write/think interactives
- Lots of thinking games
- Check out the word games on this site
References like dictionary and thesaurus
Writing your bibliography
- Clues to write a bibliography
