Castle Hill Public School

 

ESL RESOURCES - USEFUL WEBSITES

 

Dear All

I have compiled a list of websites that I have used over the past 5 years. They are mainly directed at K-6. I am sorry there is not much information about each one but it would be too big a job.  Most of them are suitable for students to use at home and many have whiteboard activities. It is always wise to ask parents to supervise their child’s use of the computer.

 

Happy browsing!

 

Thanks

Dawne Furze

 

 

Smart Boards - plus those from lists below

www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/

www.education.smarttech.com  -  Smart lessons sharing site. Click on NOTEBOOK ACTIVITIES and then Australia for lots of activities

http://technology.usd259.org/resources  -  Click on Smart Board, Airliner and Senteo Activities, Click on ELEMENTARY.  Lots of SMART BOARD info here  -  Good

www.netrover.com/~kingskid/108.html  -  Games, especially for the Smartboard

www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html  -  Good lesson ideas and activity sheets, but some access requires membership.

www.funbrain.com

www.puzzle-maker.com/  -  Good for making crosswords and word searches

www.austmus.gov.au/  -  Australian Museum Online –  information site, with easy to read info at students’ level, good to use for research skills

www.spellingcity.com  –  Enter your own spelling words

www.emints.org  Click on   ethemes   and scroll down to  How does ethemes work?

www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk  -  Lots of things

www.tale.edu.au/  -  DET site with search tool

www.copacabana-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/index.html  -  help to plan/teach units of work and for interactive games

www.bargo-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/Worksheets%20Menu.htm  –  used to have lots of maths worksheets but couldn’t find them

http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/default2.htm  -  DET site.

http://www.primarygames.com/  -  Fun games

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/  -  Interactive whiteboard activities

http://primaryschool.com.au/advsearch.php?showall=search&term=whiteboard

www.prongo.com  -  English, Maths and Quizzes

www.globalclassroom.org  -  Excellent links

http://www.worldofteaching.com/mathspowerpoints.html  -  English also – maybe some use

www.illuminations.nctm.org  -  Click on Weblinks    LOTS OF MATHS ACTIVITIES  

www.teacher.ash.org.au  -  Australian site Homework Contracts on Laws, Inventions, Movies, Body, Space

Click on HIPPO HELPER and then Using ICTs - Scroll down to Making your first IWS lesson with Smartboard Notebook. Could be of some use.

www.mathplayground.com  -  Click on math videos

www.lcfclubs.com/englishzone  -  Click on Practice Zone, Phonics Zone, Grammar Zone and Picture Zone      Good ES1/S1/ESL

www.curriculumbits.com  - Click on English and find “Making a Speech” quite good if students have to give a talk.  Also click on Cool Colons and Semi Colons: Apostrophe. 

www.smartkiddies.com  -  Sign in for free-smartboard activities and some good basic worksheets videos - hard to understand.

www.iknowthat.com  -  free registration interactive maths, language, science

www.communication4all.co.uk  -  Enter, click on Literacy, click on Story Writing and scroll down to Creative Writing in Key Stage 2- a good powerpoint presentation.

 

Research Sites – useful for students and teachers

www.emints.org   -  On home page, click on ethemes. Scroll down to  How does ethemes work?  Then look at alphabetical list of themes.  It is 32 pages long and covers LOTS!  Take a look!  American site. 

www.kidcyber.com.au  -  A great Australian site, basic facts on Australia, Planet Earth, Sports, People and Places, Space, Technology and Inventions, Animals and Food and my Body. Excellent

www.enchantedlearning.com

www.abc.net.au/schoolstv/animals  -  Suitable for teachers /students.  This site provides very simple information on Australian animals which are found “In the Air”, “On the Ground” and “Under the Water” – very user friendly for Phase 1/2

www.teachthis.com.au -  Excellent site for all topics - you need to join

http://www.austmus.gov.au/wild_kids/

http://australian-animals.net  -  Good basic information on lots of animals

www.learningpage.com   -  Lots of things - click on Themes : Space, Oceans, Zoos others  

*COGS Unit Links  This is the link for English programming starters that are linked to all the COGs units. They cover all the parts of the English syllabus and are very good. Within det intranet
https://portalsrvs.det.nsw.edu.au/f5-w-H68747470733a2f2f6465747777772e6465742e6e73772e6564752e6175$$/curr_support/english_prog/progstart.htm

www.teachers.ash.org.au  -  Australian site Homework Contracts on Laws, Inventions, Movies, Body, Space

Click ON   HIPPO HELPER  and then Using ICTs.  Scroll down to Making your first IWS lesson with Smartboard Notebook. Could be of some use.

www.itdmoss.det.nsw.edu.au/sites/lsi/ns/default.aspx  -  Use @edu to login, receive emails from colleagues regarding setting up video conferencing, sharing flipcharts, check resources tab etc

or- http://itdmoss.det.nsw.edu.au/sites/lsi/default.aspx

 

Some Websites for Students/Smartboards

Maths

www.tutpup.com

http://resources.oswego.org/games  -  Excellent interactive games - go to Maths Magic - Stop the Clock, Sum Sense, Speed Grid and Dog Bone.   

www.edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/ekowalcz/math/  -  Excellent. Choose topic from index on LHS.   

www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise   -  Click on Number - Facts  Sheets, Games, Quiz  and Worksheets 

www.multiplication.com  -  Click on Interactive Games. There are many games to choose from. Scroll down to QUICKFLASH and FUN FLASH. These activities are purely testing tables without all of the animation which slows things down. 

www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk  -  Click on Interactive Activities and then Maths. The sections are Number Skills, Shape and Space, Data and Probability, Measure skills and Maths investigations.

www.iknowthat.com  -  Free registration maths/science/language interactive games

www.bbc.co.uk/schools   -  Click on Numeracy

www.crickweb.co.uk  -  Good. Click on a Key stage and choose area.

www.beenleigss.eq.edu.au/wcmss or just google: beenleigh state school.  Click on Maths and select from there.

www.primarygames.com  -  Click on Maths

www.teachingtables.co.uk  -  This site used to be very practical until you had to subscribe. If you can ignore the EVALUATION ONLY text that is on the screen, the activities Table Mountain, Time Table, Multiplying Monkeys are quite good. The worksheets were excellent as well but I think they have EVALUATION as well.

Scroll down to bottom of the page to

teachingtime.co.uk  - The activities are practical but now it does have the text across the page.

teachingfractions.co.uk  -  Also has text across the page

www.aaamath.com  

www.rainforestmaths.com  -  You now have to subscribe

www.coolmath.com  -  Click on math4kids or go to

www.coolmath4kids.com  - Good

www.primaryschool.com.au  -  Click on Maths  lots of things

www.copacabana-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/Get_Smart_Pages/Get_Smart.htm  - Or Google copacabana public school Click on Get Smart

www.mathplayground.com  - Click on Computation and then choose from basic facts, fractions and percent for good practical online exercises.

www.topmarks.co.uk  -  Click on maths

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/  -  Click on Numeracy

www.ictgames.com  -  Click on Number

www.netrover.com/~kingskid/108.html  -  Games, especially for the Smartboard

www.funbrain.com

www.nlvm.usu.edu  -  click on Number and Operations. There are a lot of good activities. Click on Numbers and operation Grades 3-5 and click on Base 10 Subtraction and Addition - good visuals

www.counton.org

www.learningplanet.com  -  Try their free activities

www.users.on.net/~wayne_r/maths/k_2_maths_sites.htm  -  Has a list of more good sites

www.firstschoolyears.com  -  Click on numeracy

www.pppst.com

www.camelsdale.w-sussex.sch.uk/teach_with_ict1.asp

www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/  - Online games

www.globalclassroom.org   -  Excellent links

www.math-drills.com  -  Worksheets ok

www.teachers.ash.org.au/suel/maths/applets.html   -  You could find things here - maybe for advanced students

www.mathplayground.com

www.ixl.com  -  Some free  exercises - have to join for others

www.smartkiddies.com   -  Sign in for free-smartboard activities and some good basic worksheets videos hard to understand.

 

Online stories

www.kindersite.org/Directory  -  Choice of Stories, Games and Songs

Google beenleigh state school and click on online stories, ESL

www.starfall.com  -  Click on Stories and Props and then choose a level. Some are being updated.

www.storyplace.org

www.literactive.com  -  It is free but you have to sign in with password

www.storylineonline.net  

Google  Chi Chi the Chimpanzee   GOOD! GOOD!

Literacy

www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.sch.uk  -  Click on Literacy and the choices Words and Spellings; Grammar and Punctuation; and Writing Text come up. If you click on any activity within those topics the full range comes up.

www.ictgames.com  -  Click on Literacy

www.literactive.com   -  It is free but you have to sign in with password

www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise  -  Click on Words- Facts Sheets, Games, Quiz  and Worksheets

www.bbc.co.uk/schools  -  Click on Literacy

http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/108.html  -  Games, especially for the Smartboard

www.spellcity.com  -  On homepage, go to Start Here and type in personal spelling words to be learnt. Then Click on Test Me and Teach Me.  Click on Play Games for interactive games

http://www.funbrain.com

www.primaryschool.com.au 

www.myenglishlessons.net

www.topmarks.co.uk  -  Click on English

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/literacy/

www.crickweb.co.uk  

www.firstschoolyears.com  -  Click on Literacy

www.pppst.com

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/  -  Online games

www.globalclassroom.org  -  Excellent links

www.roythezebra.com   -  Guided reading stories, interactive reading games, literacy worksheets about Roy

www.busyteacherscafe.com  -  Click on Free Printables. Click on WRITING and then Monthly Journals - gives some good ideas for daily journal writing.

 

Other Sites

www.teachthis.com.au  -  Excellent for resources - have to join 

www.communication4all.co.uk                                                  

www.bogglesworldesl.com  -  Worksheets and flashcards    

www.sparklebox.co.uk  -  Excellent for teacher resources   

www.eslkidslab.com   -  Worksheets and flashcards

www.english-4kids.com  -  Quizzes

www.esltower.com

www.a4esl.org  -  Crosswords and grammar exercises

www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish    

www.eslbears.homestead.com  -  Picture/word matching

www.vocabulary.co.il  -  Picture/word matching   

www.uptoten.com/  -  Simple free games – good for early/stage 1

www.primaryschool.com.au     

www.worldofteaching.com -  Powerpoint presentations on many topics

www.makinglearningfun.com  -  Resources

www.internet4classrooms.com/skills

www.armoredpenguin.com/wordsearch  -  Students can make and add image for findaword. Save on a WORD document

 

Suitable for ESL Teachers and Students

Flashcards

www.bogglesworldesl.com  -  Lots of good things for ESL and mainstream. Check out worksheets/flashcards

www.carlscorner.us/  -  Good site for teachers for worksheets.

It has hundreds of free printable worksheets. There is an index on LHS. Because there are so many useful things on this website I suggest you print a copy as you go and write on it from where it has come eg. “Antonym Alley” as it is very easy to forget.

www.dltk-cards.com/  -  Suitable for teachers for treating same vocab but using different activities. flashcards

Topics include the Body, Clothes and Household. Click on “Bingo” and follow prompts to make the game. I found 3x3 was big enough for NA.You can also click on “Dominos” to cover the same topics. You can also click on “Memory Cards” to cover the same topics. Maybe click on “Bookmarks” for Mother’s Day.

www.kizclub.com  -  Great site for ESL teachers of NA/ Phase 1 for resources and worksheets and flashcards

This site has a lot of useful printable worksheets. Click on Stories and Props, Topics,. ABC then ABC links for connecting websites for online activities for students    Investigate the entire site !!!

www.edhelper.com  -  Useful for teachers    There are lots of free printables. There is a membership fee to access the whole site. Maybe school could join for the minimum time and you print off all that you need.

www.teachchildrenesl.com  -  useful for teachers flashcards

Download pictures for flashcards to paste onto cardboard and laminate.

Click on “Flashcards” Topics included are “Vegetables”, “Fruit”, “Around the House-Bedroom, Kitchen, Bathroom”, “Wild Animals”, “Shapes”, “Farm Animals”, “Clothing, “Dolch Words”, “Number”, “Family”, “Alphabet”, “St Patrick’s Day”, “Halloween” and “Christmas”.

www.havefunteaching.com  -  flashcards;  OK some girlie ads

www.esl-kids.com  -  Teachers/ students flashcards                                                                                  **

Mainly suitable items for teachers to make coloured flashcards and worksheets- on about 30 common topics.
Look at Flashcards, Games, Flashcards etc

www.lessonsense.com  -  Flashcards and activities Body, Animals, Colours, Fruit, Dictionary etc-adapt printing size *

www.eslflashcards.com  -  Flashcards

www.childcareland.com  - Suitable for teachers   Some colourful flashcards 

Print off and laminate colour flashcards Click on LHS “Free Printables” and then scroll down.Check out “Hearts”-Days of the Week, Months “Feelings Faces”-happy, sad, sleepy, mad, surprised, scared and sick“Summer Learning Friends” Days of the Week and Months of the Year

www.mes-english.com  - Great for vocabulary and worksheet handouts Excellent site for ESL teachers

Click on “Flashcards. Select from the index on LHS, about 30-40 topics, and print off “Handout” which gives you the overall content on one page. Check out the rest of the site as there are worksheets.

www.britishcouncil.org/kids-flashcards.htm  -  For teachers.  There are better sites.

www.1-language.com/eslflashcards/index.htm  -  Flashcards

www.semanda.com  -  Printable PDF Mandarin flashcards for Chinese students and parents. Quizzes   GOOD

www.learningesl.com  -  Flashcards

www.eslkidslab.com  

www.english-4kids.com  -  Some great flashcards (print 2 per page) and clear, simple worksheets.

 

Others

 

www.communication4all.co.uk  -  Excellent site for ESL teachers.

www.magicvocabulary.net  -  You have to join the site but it seems to cover many topics.

www.teacherresourcesgalore.com  -  useful for teachers 

Check out the site. Many of the activities are WORD documents so you can change them to suit yourself.

I found the “Assessment” proforma really useful as I am not very skilled on the computer.

Click on “Maths”

Click on “Assessments”

Click on “Number recognition Level 2”

A WORD document comes up. Delete everything on it except the header and “Save” it to your File and use it as your Master. I am not clever at smiley faces/shadow boxes etc and so I have found this very useful. Every time you need a new assessment sheet you can just highlight the words, alter the font, the outcomes  and text to suit yourself. You can either type in the task or paste on a photocopied BLM. 

www.crickweb.co.uk  -  This is a good site for students at school and at home. Lots of interactive activities.

www.britishcouncil.org/kids  -  Suitable for teachers 

Click on “Topics”,  go to “Goldilocks”, listen to the story. Print the sequencing activity. Download the masks, cut them out, paste onto black cardboard/paper and cut around the head shape leaving a “ruler-like handle” and laminate for story recount.  “Little Red Riding Hood” Print off “Finger Puppets”. I was able to enlarge them and they were more effective. Use other activities on this site. “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”, “Rainforest" worksheets.

Check out other topics- you can save them to your “Favourites” and always have them on hand.

http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/worksheets.htm  -  ESL teachers - Language Arts and there are many well-presented worksheets

http://home.nordnet.fr/%7Ermaufroid/pupitre/  -  For teacher/students.  Certainly worth a look. Lots of activities if you want to look for them.

www.uptoten.com/  -  Can be viewed in French or English - Choose language on Homepage - student activities.

www.abc.net.au/children/games  - A selection of activities for students

www.abc.net.au/schoolstv/animals  -  Suitable for teachers /students

This site provides very simple information on Australian animals which are found “In the Air”, “On the Ground” and “Under the Water” –very user friendly for Phase 1/2

http://iteslj.org/cw/  -  For students - lots of grammar, crosswords and vocabulary exercises   GOOD FOR ESL

www.graphicgarden.com - For teachers - Scroll down to “free printables”. You might find bookmarks, birthday invitations if you are doing a birthday theme to teach name, address and phone number, blank recipe cards for cooking activities.

www.eslbears.homestead.com  -  Suitable for teachers/students.  Well worth exploring. There are many vocabulary online exercises for all students. There are many matching word to pictures of  school animals fruit etc

www.2flashgames.com/learning_english_games.htm  - For students.  Good - simple memory games (with sound) covering “Touch Typing, School, Animals, Body, Weather, Family and Feelings, Occupations, School, Play, Fruit, Sweets, Food, face, Body and Animals.”

www.2flashgames.com/f/f-635.htm  -  For students

www.firstschoolyears.com  -  Excellent for teachers – BLMs / students interactive activities.  Click on “Literacy” then “Word Level” and then “Sentence Level”.  There are lots of good quality worksheets on this site. IOA - are Interactive Online Activities suitable for students.

www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise  -  A very suitable site for teachers  / students.  This site has skills fact sheets, online activities and follow-up printable worksheets on such topics as Adverbs, Apostrophes, Personal Pronouns, Verb Subject Agreement, Describing People, Places and Things, Using Commas, Making Sentences, Putting Sentences Together, Tense, Double Negative, Instructions (PROCEDURES). The activities are very student-friendly.  You can go straight to “Games”, which are on the above topics. It also treats Numbers.

Google:  Chi Chi the chimpanzee  -  Phase 1/K-2 students enjoy it.  This unit was written by the students of Cleveland High School.  Chi Chi is a new chimp at Taronga Zoo and it is a simple story about him. I usually turn the sound off to make the students read the story. There are then some progressive online, self-corrective activities and some writing activities 1: Choose a word, 2: Crossword, 3: Unscramble Words, 4: Opposites, 5 :T/F, 6: Comprehension, 7 :Sequencing, 8 : Guided Writing, 9 : Cloze and 9 : Independent Writing.

www.vocabulary.co.il/  -  User friendly site for young  ESL students  NA/ES1

Click on “Match Game” for introduction of vocab and then memory games on basic topics.

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures  -  Suitable for students.  Online activities covering “Phonics Year 2”, “CVC words”, “Consonant Clusters”, “Long Vowel Sounds” and “High Frequency Words” In  “Phonics Year 2” click on “Sandcastle Quiz”.

www.funbrain.com  -  A selection of activities

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac  -  For ages 4-11.  Check these out

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/index.shtml

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english

www.bbc.co.uk.schools/spellits/ad_menuflash.shtml

http://skyblues67.chez-alice.fr/prepositions/prepos1.htm   -  For students - preposition activity online

www.funwithspot.com   -  For students.  Simple activities on “Party, Beach, Park and Farm”

www.pumpkinandcompany.com/PAC/kids-activities-grammar_prep_quiz.htm  -  For students - Prepositions

www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/prepositions/index.htm  -  For students.  3 good Preposition online activities - “Choose the preposition”, “Spot the preposition” and “Where is the mouse?”.

www.wordmania.org   -  For students.  Some good activities for NA/Phase 1.  Go to “kidsarea” on LHS.

www.kindersite.org/Directory/Stories.htm  -  Great for students.  Many stories to read, games to play and songs for students – a composition of sites such as Starfall and BBC “Games, Music and Songs and Stories”

www.dositey.com  -  For students.  Click on K-2 Language Arts. Memory games for Contractions, Synonyms and Antonyms.

www.bonus.comstudents  -  In “search bonus .com” box, type in “fun and games” maybe some games here - didn’t really look.

www.abc.net.au/children/  -   For students.  Could be activities for students

www.abc.net.au/countusin/   -  For students.  15 simple number games for NA/ES1 students. You can download simple activities

www.abc.net.au/learn  -  For students.  Access to “Count Us In” and “The Navigators” which is about early European exploration of Australia. Information on BTN

www.netrover.com/~kingskid/108.html  -  For teacher /students  online activities and some things to print before you join. Click on “free teacher stuff” have a look through here for BLM generators for maths addition, multiplication. Only a few samples and then you have to join.

www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com  -  An alphabetical list of maths terms for students to access information and definitions

www.schoolhousetech.com/  -  For teacher.  Not much but you can click on Downloads and then sample worksheets

http://www.eslkidstuff.com  -  For teacher.  Have a browse - you may be able to print a few free activities or songs. You have to join to have full access.

www.virtualteacher.com.au  -  For teachers - not a lot

www.pdictionary.com  -  For students.  Students can do some vocab exercises - not much

www.english-zone.com/reading/health.html  -  For students.  You have to be a member for most things on this site but there are a few things that you can do/print. On main page scroll down to “Basic Skills Zone” and click on “Health” and there is an exercise there on “What’s the Matter?”  You can print off a copy. Saved the exercise to “Favourites”

www.internet4classrooms.com/  -  For teacher and students.  Click on “Grade Level help K-8”. There are some site and activities in there

www.primaryschool.com.au  -  For teachers. You may get some ideas from here.

http://funschool.kaboose.com/students  -  Scroll down to the bottom of main page to K-2, 3-4, 5-6 and choose from a large selection of activities.

www.eslall.com/learn_english_723.html  -  For teacher - 133 colour flashcards-animals, food etc

www.1-language.com/  -  For students - matching games covering topics such as Animals, Body, Face, School, Occupations, Family and Feelings and music.

www.askblake.com.au  -  Check the Free Downloads weekly  -  For teachers.  Click on “Free downloads” for units of work on “Friends”, “Minibeasts”, “Antarctica”, “ Problem Solving Maths”, “Rainforests” and quite a good one for “Water Week” in October. I have downloaded some good grammar quizzes from this site before but could not find them so the free downloads could change.

www.esljunction.com/esl-efl-flashcards teacher /  -  For students.  There could be some useful flashcard handouts for students on these topics-Alphabet, Occupations, Toys, Transport, Fruit, Vegetables, Meat, Farm Animals, Pets, Zoo Animals, Weather, Birds, Body, Internal Organs, Flowers, Bugs and Insects, Make-Up, Trees, Clothes, Musical Instruments, furniture, City Buildings, Classroom Objects, People in School, Food-Snacks

www.englishforamerica.com/student  -  on-line quizzes for Phase1/2

www.iknowthat.com/  Click on “Language arts and English” – online activities for students.

http://www.primaryresources  -  For teachers.  You could find some worksheets here - not well presented

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/kids/archive/themesarchive.html  -  For students.  Phase 1 - 49 topics including circus, clothes, looking after yourself, robots, human body, life on earth, monkeys, monsters, pets etc-activities and worksheets. Some worksheets you can highlight the writing and change it eg. “Jobs” you can change the names from Gary Gummer, Mabel Meacher to whatever you choose.

www.e-worksheets.com  -  For teachers  You could find something here - French Vocab, musical instruments, phonics - not much

http://users.skynet.be/providence/vocabulaire/anglais/menu.htm  -  For students - picture/word matching activities

http://www.phonicsworld.com  -  For students

http://readwritethink.org/materials/wordbuild/index.html

http://readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch/index.html  -  Online activities for students

http://www.daycareresource.com/freegames.htmlstuden  -  Lots of user-friendly sites for NA/phase 1

http://www.bradleys-english-school.com/  -  For students online activities and quizzes for NA/Phase 1.  Some useful worksheets but some did not print clearly

http://www.thekidzpage.com/learninggames/learningonline.htm  -  Online activities for students

http://skyblues67.chez-alice.fr/prepositions/prepos1.htm  -  For students.  Position Word - online activity - matching 20 position sentences to a picture eg. The dog is between the hat and the ball.

http://pumpkinandcompany.com  -  For students.  Click on “Online Activities” - There are grammar exercises. Could be worth a browse.

http://www.geocities.com/pccprep/  -  For students.  Worth a look - lots of basic online quizzes covering topics such as Occupations, Colours, Clothes, Human Body, Cars, Family, Food….. 

www.literactive.com  - Great site for Kindergarten/Year1 students.  There are lots and lots of child-friendly reading games to play, stories to read or listen to.  I think you have to register. You do not have to pay but well worth it for simple, colourful activities for younger or struggling students.

http://www.smart-central.com  - For teachers.  Has lots of songs on it.

www.beenleigss.qld.edu.au   -  For students - worth a look.  Click on “Phonics”, then go to any “Look, Cover, Write and Check”. You can write your own words in the rectangles if you like.  Click on “Reading Machine”- an interactive CVC activity and print off the 5 CVC worksheets.  Click on “Stories Online” - you can get to “Starfall” via here.  Have a browse around the site.

www.starfall.com   - Good for ESL/ES1 teachers.  Click on “Learn To Read”.  When reading stories such as “Zac the Rat” and “Peg, the Hen” always click on the characters as they become animated. There are worksheets to match these stories.  On Main Page click on “It’s Fun To Read” When viewing at “Who Am I?” try all of the alternatives eg hair colour, skin colour. The character you make in this story will carry on through the rest of the stories in the set-“Where Do I Sleep?”, “What is my Pet?” Click in the toybox  for “Body” and “Rooms in the House”.

www.storylineonline.net/  - For students - about 25 stories, read by actors. However the voices are “computerised” and sound odd.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/stories/gingerbread.htm  - For students.  Good, NAP/Phase 1.  Click on “topmarks” on RHS and there are lots of suitable online activities and sites.  I have printed off  “The Gingerbread Man”, cut the illustrations from the words, laminated both sections and used it for sequencing activities. I usually give a few pictures to each student and they talk amongst themselves and sequence the pictures and then give out the sentences.

www.classbrain.com  - Click on “Fun and Games” for a selection of activities for students.

www.computerlab.com  -  Click on  What Can I Do in Lab  on LHS.

www.gigglepotz.com  -  Australian site - you have to be a member.

www.englishlearner.com  -  Click on  Learn English online.   GOOD BASIC EXERCISES FOR STUDENTS

www.eslgold.com   -  Click on vocabulary.  Vocab exercises with sound

www.kididdles.com/lyrics   -  Lots of early traditional songs with sound and song sheets

www.mrsalphabet.com   -   A couple of activities

www.tlsbooks.com  -  OK

www.internet4classrooms.com/skills   -  Activities

www.english-4kids.com   -  Activities, worksheets

www.superteacherworksheets.com    -   Simple worksheets.   Maybe report comments

www.britishcouncil.org/kids.htm   -  Click on Topics A-Z , Stories etc

www.manythings.org  -  Crossword puzzles.

www.graphicgarden.com  -  Click on free printables - BOOKMARKS, copy/paste to WORD and adjust size to 4 per A4 page and give to students as awards. I put 4 different ones per page and then copy and paste them.

www.lcfclubs.com/englishzone  -  Click on Practice Zone, Phonics Zone, Grammar Zone and Picture Zone.   Good ES1/S1/ESL

www.ego4u.com  -  English exercises OK   girlie pictures/ads

www.usingenglish.com  -  Phases2/3  lots of quizzes and online exercises

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