Writing Prompts

Are you looking for inspiration for a story or a philosophy lesson?

This is the perfect site. The site will need to be unblocked to work in school.

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Literacy Shed

The Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources chosen to inspire the children with their writing. A lot of the content comes from Vimeo or You Tube, so teachers much check they have access through the schools web filtering.

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Hold Yer Front Page

The history of the world told in a tabloid style. Really fun to read and lots of interesting Historical Facts. If you love Horrible Histories you will love this site.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/hold_ye_front_page/

Microsoft Photosynth

Microsoft Photosynth allows you to view photos in 360 degrees. A great website for scene setting for use in story writing.

http://photosynth.net/default.aspx

ICT Magic

ICT magic is a fabulous site for finding out about new websites that can be used in lessons. The site sends out tweets about new sites about 20 times a day so well worth a follow as you often come across hidden gems. The list to the sub-menus is on the right hand side of the site of the page.  The site author brings out a useful PDF document every so often called *ICTmagic Show.

http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/

Cool Tools for Schools

This site is mentioned in the Bristol Scheme of Work for ICT and may be useful to fill in some of the gaps when  completing units you don't have the software for.

Let me know if you find any really useful ones on this site and I will mention them in this post.

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Home

Story Bird

One of the best sites I have seen.  The children select an artist and then create a story based around the images they have chosen.  Once the story has been created it can be shared or printed.  The books look really professional.

http://storybird.com/

Crickweb

A good selection of teaching resources.

The sites are categorised for easy navigation.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/

Bristol Zoo - Animal Maker

This fun site allows you to use your imagination to create a unique animal.  Learn about the animals at the same time.

http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/animaker/

http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/animaker/

Tagxedo

Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud.

http://www.tagxedo.com/

Times - Spelling Bee

The children will love this spelling site, lots of fun games including Head to Head, Family Battles and Brain Buzz Games.

http://www.timesspellingbee.co.uk/Training/Default.aspx

Oxford Dictionary, Translation Tools - Free Online

This site provides more than just a dictionary it also contains:
an English Dictionary
a Thesaurus
a French Dictionary
a Spanish Dictionary
a German Dictionary
an Italian Dictionary
a Scrabble Dictionary

 and a translation tool that can translate into over 50 languages.

• Click on the link to access the site:

http://collinslanguage.com/wordlist.aspx?startingwith=a

Writing Fun

Writing Fun is a great site , it explains all the different types of writing, explains how to create your own masterpieces and gives examples that are age related.

http://www.writingfun.com/

TUTPUP

Welcome to Tutpup, where you can compete in fun, educational games against other kids from all over the World!

You have a minute to answer as many Maths questions or Spellings as you can against an online opponent.  The spellings require headphones or speakers.

No login is necessary, the login allows the user to record their activity and gives you a ranking on the world leaderboard.  My son love this competitiveness and is aiming to be number 1 in the world.  The login in done in a safe anonomous environment.  No chat facilities.

http://www.tutpup.com/

We Are Multicolured.

There is nobody like you. You're one in seven billion

Create you own flag that is personal and symbolises who you are and what you are about.


http://www.wearemulticolored.com/

Word Detective

This program was created along side the Online Picture Dictionary.  Pupils can search for words by sounds, or for words that "sound like" or simply browse for words by their letter.

https://www.worddetective.swgfl.org.uk/search.aspx

Online Primary Dictionary

This dictinary was created by i-board and has a really simple interface.  You can hear how words sound, add word to a word list and then play games with the words, such as word searches or test your spelling.

http://preview.dictionary.iboard.co.uk/

Free iWork Templates

This site is dedicated to bringing you high quality free iwork templates. We found some on the internet, we've created some, and we also have some that users have submitted. Take a look around we're sure that you'll find Pages templates, Keynote templates and Numbers templates that you'll love

Click Here - To go to iWork resources

Literacy Zone

Interactive Literacy activities.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy/index.htm

Free poem book online until May!

My Hippo has the Hiccups and other poems.

Free online book, great poems for KS1, and KS2 to utilise on your IWB's!

Click Here - to get the book of poems.

(You will need Flash 10 installed to view the ebook)