Reading

Harry Potter

JK Rowling has just tweeted...

Parents, teachers and carers working to keep children amused and interested might need a bit of magic, so I’m delighted to launch http://harrypotterathome.com 

Audiobooks from Audible:

Audible have hundreds of audiobooks available to listen to online, there is often a free trial but you may need to pay a subscription.  To log in please visit: https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

Love Reading 4 Kids:

This website has extracts from hundreds of newly released books. They are split into age groups. 

https://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/

David Walliams website:

https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/

Storynory have audio stories including fairy tales, classic authors, myths and poetry:

https://www.storynory.com/

Scholastic have video stories, online books and puzzles to solve:

https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-1-2.html

and 

https://bookflix.digital.scholastic.com/home?authCtx=U.794217314

Choose from catagories such as 'Animals and Nature', 'Adventure' and 'Music and Rhyme'.

Funbrain has books such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid and The Brilliant World of Tom Gates:

https://www.funbrain.com/books

Epic allows you to sign up free for 30 days and has 40,000 digital books including many popuar titles, as well as videos and quizzes:

https://www.getepic.com/

World Stories have 150 illustrated online books in 30 different languages:

https://worldstories.org.uk/

Agenda Web have audio and video stories and comprehension tasks:

https://agendaweb.org/short-audio-stories.html

Phonics

Phonics:

Phonics Play have made their online games and resources free to all parents.  The username and password are on the homepage of their website.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

There is a mobile version of the website:  https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/ .

You can also access decodable comics linked to each phase: https://www.phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/

Writing

Pobble 365

Pobble share a different picture everyday to inspire discussion and writing. There are story starters and grammar and sentence improving activities linked to each image. 

http://www.pobble365.com/

Spelling

ZType:

Children can practice the core words for Years 3&4 and Years 5&6 whilst developing their typing skills in this fun online game.

https://bit.ly/2C9eIi1 - Year 3/4 words

https://bit.ly/2VL6wMy - Year 5/6 words