This site is part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s site, with familiar games including characters from B1 and B2, Rattus, Mixy, Feral TV, the Couch Potato game and more. If you hold your mouse pointer over the button on the games page, the wheel in the middle indicates the age appropriateness of the game or activity.
Alfy has various reading activities, word, spelling and maths games at this site. Simply select a game to play and click on the "Educational Value" button on the navigation bar to read a description about what specific literacy and/or numeracy learning outcomes that the game or puzzle provides.
This BBC activity is fun and will have the users trying different levels and racing against the clock. It includes sounds and keeps track of answers. At the end of the game displays the original request, attempted work and the correct answer. Also has an information page about apostrophes.
The Australia Post education site has some fun activities. You can write letters, design stamps, find out some interesting facts about the history of Australia's postal system and its high-tech operations and much more.
BBC Schools 
Many great literacy activities are available from this BBC site.
- Literacy links direct
- Maths games
Matching games, counting games, snakes and ladders are all here (and many more for 4-7 year olds.
- Games, Activities and Worksheets
Games, Activities and Worksheets that are enjoyable and available for different ages in many subject areas including maths and literacy.
- English and literacy activities
This site includes reading comprehension, phonics development, phonemes, prefixes …. And lots more! for 7 – 11 year olds are here.
- Escape Route
Users have to rearrange the lines of a poem to help the gang escape. This site has sounds and activity pages to print.
Want to write a biography of someone you admire? This site for upper primary and secondary students leads you through the steps to construct a biography of someone of your choice.
This is a US educational site which aims to teach children about their currency and provide practice in calculating how much change you would expect from a given transaction. Make sure you click on the Australian flag, unless you want to practice for an overseas holiday! The site has four levels of difficulty, from easy, through to superbrain (for the big spenders!). Good for mental gymnastics and fully GST ready!
This is a fantasy site for preschool children. According to the site’s homepage, Chateau Meddybemps provides guidance and playful activities for parents and educators to use with preschoolers.
The online story book and activity centre with phonics fun games for early readers.
What to do to create a comic … then drop in to the comic creator. Here you can build your own comic with characters, speech bubbles and background settings.
This is a British site of the UK Mathematics Trust. This site includes maths challenges (for older students) and games and activities for younger children, including ‘Numberland’, where you can find out all sorts of irrelevant facts about lots of different numbers from the magic number square. Click on ‘links’ on the navigation bar, then select ‘games’, or 'puzzles and problems’ for a huge selection of other sites (with star-ratings) to visit to test your maths ability.
This appears to be a well constructed site, with good explanations and rationale, including plenty of information for parents and a frequently asked questions (FAQ) section. The site is sponsored by Kraft. It is aimed at preschool and lower primary children and offers plenty of opportunities to develop mathematical skill.
By Daily-Update Publishers
The Junior Contest is for individual students aged 13-15 and the Senior Contest is for those aged 16-18. Students who win a cash prize or receive an honourable mention also have their work published by Daily-Update Publishers.
Besides contest details, there are many helpful hints on how to write well.
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Learn about many parts of speech including nouns and verbs at the beginner level and prepositions, pronouns and more at the advanced level.
Poetry Form Finder
Create a poem. Use the Instant Poetry Form Finder. Type in your words and create your own poems. Write rhyming poems, poems about feelings, poems about me and many, many more!
Into the Book
A great site for developing comprehension activities like developing questioning skills, developing summarising skills and inferring from the online stories.
You’ll find lots of board-type games, including mastermind, solitaire, reversi, connect 4 and mastermind at this site. Some of these are better than others – you’ll soon find the ones which appeal to you.
John’s Word Search Puzzles – click on the Kids’ button to go to 1001 Wonderwords type puzzles, some with movie themes, others with everyday themes, like camping, pets, etc. If you like Wonderwords, you’ll love this site. You can also invent your own and send it in for construction!
The Lovatts Homepage is the site of the famous crossword family, producers of many of Australia's best known crosswords and puzzles, including Colossus, Mega and Big. It includes a teacher reference page and plenty of sample puzzles, suited to all ages.
Try out the Maths fun activities in the collection of games. Users have own password to move through the collection.
There are lots of different activities for phonics and word study at this site at many different levels. Some are short games, some are longer.
The Scrabble Homepage provides access to the world of Scrabble, plus a games page for kids! The games page includes Scrabble Hangman (suitable for upper primary), Scrabble Invader (suitable for lower primary students with good hand eye coordination), which is good to assist letter recognition and Scrabble Snake.
The online home of Dr Seuss fun! With matching games, and puzzles and lots more. For early readers.
Specific Language activities:
- Apostrophes
This is the online quiz (with timer) also investigate the apostrophe fact pages and further information in the tabs. Then investigate the other grammar pages at www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/
- Eduplace
This site has fun games and activities for kids to crate including creating wacky web tales games for correcting word definitions and even some teasers changed weekly!
- Homophones
What are Homophones? Find out and see how well you know them at homophones.
- Spelling Patterns
Practise Spelling Pattern
- Spelling
More Spelling fun!
- What are Nouns?
Investigate nouns with this online activity.
- What is a sentence?
This online quiz will let kids explore sentence structure and test themselves too.
- Writing Fun
This page does just that explore writing in a fun way with lots of links to pages that explain (with samples) the different text types and then provides writing experience.
Storyline Online
This site has professional actors reading kids books. Great demonstration of book reading! Also has activities.