http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/home/today/ The BBC Education site – type literacy into the search box and away you go! http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/look and read/ BBC interactive literacy activities:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/lookandread/lar/index.htm My favourite – an interactive spy adventure and

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/parents/dynamo/spelling/index.htm simple spelling, but the kids love it!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/laac/words/dgi.html This is great reminds me of my old BBC!

http://www.globebyte.co.uk/teachers.nsf The premier teachers site – full of static, black and white (old fashioned?) resources for the whole curriculum. A must visit site.

www.tfict.org.uk/pri/ The Bolton Curriculum ICT Centre – a must visit site – here is an LEA offering some excellent resources – and they’re cheap too!

www.sunshine.co.nz This is a useful site, especially for KS1. Lots of tips and ideas. You need to join/subscribe, but it only takes a day. There is also a site for UK (www.sunshine.co.uk),

http://nikolai.com/BOOKSHELF/default.htm This excellent site has many interactive reading and writing activities. Interactive stories, poems and E mail.

http://www.carolhurst.com/ Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site, American, but has some useful advice on good literature and activities for using it.

http://www.becta.org.uk/ncet-info/links/primary.html Part of the Becta site – lots of resources generally – if you can find your way around.

http://www.stockportmbc.gov.uk/pages/links/curricul/english/eng1.htm A wonderful site from Stockport LEA. All LEAs should have one! Loads of links to great educational sites. A must – must see! My favourite located here is http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour/Torthare/torthare1.html – a super story – well told – and not too slow!

http://www.actden.com WritingDEN is a commercial site, with lots of quality resources.

http://www.portables1.ngfl.gov.uk/kesmedley/cybersam/ Gives links for primary pupils to explore the web. Some of these are excellent – not specifically literacy, (though lots of non-fiction activities) but definitely a resource for your Favourites folder.

http://www.argosphere.net/members/index.htm This used to be a great site, now it seems to be mainly pay to view, but some good literacy resources anyway – check out the Pooh activities – I like them! http://www.argosphere.net/members/Pooh/title.htm

http://www.eyesoftime.com/teacher/ukpage.htm "Schools UK" I think – lots of resources – mainly secondary based – I think.

http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/infant/ Meet Sebastian Swan and his interactive big book – a super site, from Kent LEA with KS1 activities on a new theme each term.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/ Lots of resources fort teachers.

http://www.poetrysoc.com/ The poetry society. Not a lot here now – but lots to come I expect.

http://home.sol.no/~keitoy/haiku.html Haiku – perfect poetry medium for kids – well I like ‘em – a super site, just full of the stuff.

http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~dm/eire.html Irish Poetry Page

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/poechild.htm Poetry for children:

http://www.fernhse.demon.co.uk/eastword/ This is a great resource for poetry writers, I particularly like the e-mail idea.

http://www.issue.demon.co.uk/poetry/hegley/hegley.htm John Hegley - a great poet – for kids. (Did I ever tell you about the time I stole his KitKat?)

www.fernhse.demon.co.uk/eastword/ Good poetry site for children.

http://home.earthlink.net/~hcp97/gedde.htm A selection of children’s poems for children . A good user friendly site.

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/treasure/ Treasure Island - A superb site – well almost – lots here for children to reference while reading this classic.

http://www.unibg.it/rls/rls.htm The R L Stevenson Home Page

http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/wonderland/index.htm Alice in Wonderland - An Interactive Adventure! There’s a whole terms work here. Great book, great site.

http://www.nd.edu/~khoward1/dahl/index.html The Roald Dahl Home Page

http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/stevensn/island/index.html R L Stevenson - Treasure Island text

http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~khlee/willows/contents.html A full e-text of Wind in the Willows

http://place.scholastic.com/goosebumps/high/pro/index.htm If you’re into Goosebumps, you’ll love this. A good, interactive site.

http://www.annefrank.com/ An essential site for any child reading the diary. Educational activities should be on-line soon.

http://www.enidblyton.co.uk Excellent site devoted to Enid Blyton.

http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/relipper/tolkien/rootpage.html#onlinetext The J.R.R. Tolkien Information Page

http://www.eric-carle.com/ Children can read, play with and even e-mail the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/ A large site, full of fables and the associated morals,

http://www.peterrabbit.co.uk/index2.html The world of Beatrix Potter tells us about the life of the author and the characters in her books. Suitable for upper KS1 and KS2.

http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/ If you like The Cat in the Hat – then this is a must, based on the books of Dr. Seuss, with lots of good activities.

http://www.standards.dfee.gov.uk/literacy/activity

http://www.sherston.com/literacy/index.html The software company’s literacy site – some good ideas on using ICT in literacy.

http://www.merseyworld.com/educate/literacy_database.htm A literacy planning database – looks interesting

http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/ On-line information and links to support literacy.

http://www.thekids.com/ "Explore illustrated stories from around the world: rhymes, fables, adventure stories, folk & fairy tales"

http://www.yearofreading.org.uk/ The national year of reading home page –

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html An excellent Canadian web-site which centres on literacy for children. Links to authors and other good resources.

http://www.warner.clara.net/english.htm Lots of reading, writing and speaking / listening activities – a little formal - not all very inspiring – but a useful resource.

http://www.gosford-hill.oxon.sch.uk/etuk/etuk.htm English teaching in the United Kingdom (KS3/KS4)

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/7175/index.html

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/7175/index.html

http://www.readingonline.org International Reading Association:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library/documents7/interchg.pdf

http://www.mlckew.edu.au/english/ The English Teachers' Web Site (secondary level)

http://comenius.com/ The Virtual English Language Centre:

http://mantex.co.uk/ CAL program for English language studies:

http://www.dsoe.com/explore/english/ Grammar and literature resources:

http://www.kidnews.com/ Lots of kid’s writing and some interesting e-mail ideas.

www.mystworld.com/youngwriter This site has a lot of children’s writing, linked to a comercial publication. It comes highly recommended.

http://www.inkspot.com/ an American site for on-line young writers.

http://www.achuka.co.uk/index.html This is a general children’s book site, well presented with lots of good links.

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html CLWG Children's Literature Web Guide – lots of good links to other sites.

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/rteacher.html – this is the teacher’s resource area.

http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour/ IPL Story Hour – more on-line stories for younger readers.

http://www.dolanhcg.demon.co.uk/penny/dozen.html/ Book titles for junior readers (Federation of Children’s Bookgroups)

http://wondersociety.com/ The Realistic Wonder Society: (downloadable children’s literature):

http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html Children's Storybooks Online – Virtual literature – great stuff too – divided into different age groups – this site is definitely worth including in your Favourites folder.

 http://www.magickeys.com/books/count/page8.html – this is a counting activity / story – lovely.

http://www.pacificnet.net/~cmoore/lk/index.htm – this is a story with a King Arthur link for older children.

http://www.ipl.org/ An Internet Library – mainly KS3/4

http://www.dkonline.com/dkcom/ The Dorling Kindersley site.

http://www1.oup.co.uk/oup/oxed/ort The Oxford Reading Tree site.

http://www.penguin.co.uk On line reviews, booklists and other resources for teachers and children.

http://www.ucalgary.ca.~dkbrown/ Children’s Literature Guide:

http://www.waterstones.co.uk/ Waterstones book shop

http://www.users.interport.net/~fairrosa/ Another library site - Fairrosa Cyber Library home page – particularly interesting list of resources for a topic on dragons.

http://www.users.interport.net/~fairrosa/stacks.html Extensive resource of children’s books in full text format.

http://www.bibliomania.com/index.html A "Network Library". Mainly adult (Lady Chatterley!), but some children’s titles. The site is split into fiction, non-fiction and poetry sections and displays the whole text of the selected books. Very useful for copying selected extracts.

http://www.nie.northcliffe.co.uk/ Northcliffe Newspapers in Education:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Electronic Daily Telegraph: Create your own newspaper (and more):

http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sapere/ The SAPERE site is aimed at upper primary / secondary

http://skillsfactory.com/index.html Don’t know what’s here – I got bored and moved on.

http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts/SSI/p4c/gop4c.html Philosophy for Children server, a community of inquiry in cyberspace:

www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/groups/literacy/index.html – reportedly a useful site, but I couldn’t open it.

http://teleschool.org.uk/ I haven’t seen this site, but it comes recommended.