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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
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
This website has extracts from hundreds of newly released books. They are split into age groups.
Storynory have audio stories including fairy tales, classic authors, myths and poetry:
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:
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:
World Stories have 150 illustrated online books in 30 different languages:
Agenda Web have audio and video stories and comprehension tasks:
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/
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.
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