Published by Marc Brown, USA.
This site contains many great interactive activities that don’t take too long to download. It is a bright, colourful and fun website that uses the characters of the TV show to introduce activities. It incorporates child friendly educational material quite well.
Activities include Poetry Club where children read write and publish poems, the Effective Detective, a description game, About Face where children decide how the character is feeling after hearing the story, Letters To where children can send letters to different characters, You’ve Got to be Kidding where children can work out the problem from the scenario, and Story Scrambler where children put the story in the correct order. This is an easy to use site suitable for lower and middle primary.
Published by BBC Arts, UK
The website contains activities for both students and parents. Activities include improving English language skills, learning phonics, improving spelling and more.
Published by WGBH Educational Foundation, USA.
This website contains interactive games that are varied and educational and are complete with notes for teachers and parents. However some words use American spelling such as ‘mom’.
Activities include reading different stories and playing interactive games such as finding words in the bigger word, clicking on words with different sounding vowels, watching words in action, making up sentences using spoken words and clicking to hear the sentence, matching the written word with the spoken word, filling in the missing letter of the alphabet, unscrambling the word, matching book titles of the same topic, and choosing the missing letter. Suitable for lower primary.
Published by The Discovery Channel, USA.
This is a very useful site for teachers and students as it is a puzzle generation tool where you can construct word searches, maths puzzles and crosswords. It has a high degree of interactivity, lots of variety and is applicable across a range of learning areas. Suitable for middle primary, upper primary and lower secondary.
Published by Sesame Workshop/Columbia TriStar Television, USA.
This bright and colourful website uses dragon characters to lead the students through the site. One interesting activity is an interactive story that incorporates Spanish language.
Activities enable the dragon or child to read the story in English, which incorporates different sentences and words in Spanish, into the story and the background scene. Students can click on words in the scene or the text to hear them spoken in Spanish. It is very different to other sites in that it cleverly incorporates another language. Suitable to middle primary.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, USA.
This is a fantastic website with a wide range of wonderful and interactive activities and games for students to try. It contains interactive find-a-word, proofreading and definitions activities. There are fill-in-the word activities to practice grammar. There is also a spelling and vocabulary section and ideas for writing.
There are also tips for evaluating and revising narrative essay stories and report drafts, with book reviews and a “meet the authors and illustrators” section. Most activities allow for instant feedback and have incentives with lots of variety. It is child friendly and very interactive and is suitable for lower, middle and upper primary.
Published by Kids Konnect.com, USA.
This site contains a comprehensive list of specially selected and scrutinised links to websites, for children to use for research purposes.
Students can select the topic they want to research and find a list of useful websites for that topic. The websites are comprehensive and each one examined as thoroughly as possible for child safety on the net. It is suitable for middle and upper primary, lower secondary but is probably most useful for high school students.
Published by Kindersite.org©
This site has links to a multitude of games, songs and stories for young children. Each activity has a suggested suitable age ranging from pre-school to lower primary.
Published by M.A & Laurie’s stories, Inc.
This site contains interactive stories, rhymes, songs and poems with a specific literacy focus, which incorporate characters and different voices to create interest. These are changed regularly for variety.
Activities include interactive stories, rhymes, songs and poems to read or hear and children can fill in the missing letters, choose the correct word for the meaning and choose the incorrect words in amongst the correct ones. Children can relate to it and they have the opportunity to provide feedback. Suitable for early primary ages.
Published by Enchanted Learning Software, USA.
This “dictionary with a difference” encourages children to select a letter, find an interesting word and then explore further. It has a variety across a range of learning areas, showing the usefulness of dictionaries. This site has a home page which directs the reader to a huge variety of poems, nursery rhymes, information about animals, plants, oceans, etc. Suitable for lower and middle primary.
Published by WGBH Education Foundation, USA.
This is a site that is based on a TV series called “Mystery!”; it contains interactive mysteries for older students to solve. The black and white format adds to the mystery and requires sharp observation skills.
Activities include solving the crimes that have been committed by interviewing suspects, examining the scene, looking for clues and evaluating suspect descriptions. Students can take a virtual tour of a television studio which uses problem solving and observation skills. Suitable for upper primary and secondary.
Published by Nottingham Trent University, UK.
NAACE is a professional association for teachers of ICT leased in the UK that provides encouragement, advice and assistance to teachers.
This site contains books to read or you can make your own books using digital photos and film clips. It also contains ready made cloze activities or you can make your own. There are also several numeracy activities and is suitable to lower, middle and upper primary.
Published by Public Broadcasting Service, USA.
This website is partially funded by the US Educational Department and is kid safe and friendly. It is colourful, fun and the whole site is based on interactive activities specially selected from sites dedicated to a variety of television shows. These websites contain at least one interactive game or activity each and can be entered through PBS or by a direct link.
Activities include stories, games, and online experiments and enable students to watch videos and find out how a television show is created and who is responsible for it. It is child friendly and is suitable for lower and middle primary.
Published by Primary Games.com
This is an excellent site for interactive games that contain great feedback. There are games for all year levels. Some activities may take a while to download but are worth the wait. Children are able to make words out of letters and contain letter rip which is similar to boggle word. Children can click and drag letters to make words to match pictures, contraction games and much more.
The site is easy to use, is fun and is interactive and allows for instant feedback. It is colourful with lots of variety and is suitable for kindergarten to upper primary.
Published by International Reading Association, National Council for Teachers of English, Marco Polo Education Foundation, USA.
This site offers a collection of online student materials to support literacy learning. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills. Click on the name of each interactive activity for a brief description of the tool and a list of the ReadWriteThink lessons that use the tool. It is suitable for early childhood, primary and secondary school students.
Published by Scholastic Inc. TM ® & ©
This site has scholastic literacy games for early childhood. There are fun interactive games that ask students to identify letters, sounds and words. The games include concentration, make a word, letter match and sound match. Interactive storybooks are available on this site. Flash Plug-in required. Interactive activities for lower, middle and upper primary can be accessed from this site.
Published by BBC, UK.
This home-page site directs teachers and parents to a comprehensive set of exciting activities for children from kindergarten to Grade 6. There are lots of activities including word games, rhymes, stories, codes and mysteries to solve. It is child friendly, interactive and has a variety of games and stories. Suitable for lower, middle and upper primary.
Published by Merriam Webster
This website is a fun, interesting, attractive and a user friendly way to learn about words. It enables students to look up their meanings, history and spelling and manipulate word and text structure.
Activities include finding out word meanings and pronunciations; decoding and coding messages and using many different code types such as Morse code, finding words to rhyme with a word, building your own word bank looking up a daily buzz word and guess its history.
It is Net Nanny Approved and is suitable for lower and upper primary.