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Literacy
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How can parents help with their children's reading:

• Parents' web page

The best Internet resources for word study:

• Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Guides - all their books are online now!
• Wordcentral - excellent games, puzzles and a cipher machine - Great!
• Rhyming Dictionary - perfect poetry - you'll never be stuck for ideas again!
• Websters Dictionary - fast and accurate resource.
• Wordsmyth English Dictionary - superb
• Roget's Online Thesaurus - massive database of words - Excellent.
• Connected Thesaurus - extremely powerful but complicated.

Newspaper Archives to read online:

• Guardian Century - The last 100 years news as reported by the Guardian Newspaper - Essential site for History or language study.

Online Literacy activities / sites of interest:

• Listen & Write - excellent BBC site - try their challenges and send in your work!.
• Everything you wanted to know about Haiku - don't make any without reading this first!
• 200+ Proverbs - Good!
• Wacky Web Tales - make up a silly story here.
• Kids News - online writing site - superb
• Crazy Story Maker - another story machine on the web - try it out. It's great!
• Sunshine - very good literacy resources.
• National Year of reading & Authors Online - try their challenges.
• The Literacy Trust - activites and ideas.
• Literacy activities - by Ginn and Heineman - educational publishers.
• Kids on the net - fun writing activites.
• Guess the word - ace word definition game.
• Online Picture Dictionary - letters, pictures & Internet links - great!
• Childrens Literature Website - many great ideas and links.
• Online Books Database - read hundreds of books on the Internet.
• The Readin! - fantastic reading ideas - links around the world!
• Nikolai's Bookshelf - lots of online writing activities.
• Babelfish - European Languages translator - explore sentence construction, spelling and common sounds in French, German, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese! Awesome!
• Stories from the age of fairy tales
• Aesop's Fables
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Bedtime stories
• Story books online
• Deep in the bush - stories from Africa
• Disney stories

Authors and Publishers Online:

• Complete poetical works by Wordsworth - loads of local influence here!
• Authors on the web
• Harry Potter books by Scholastic - information about this popular series.
• "Dr Seuss" - popular site with many games and activities.
• The Enid Blyton Website - information and activities.
• "Treasure Island" - read the story online - with activities!
• Roald Dahl Pages - all about this popular children's writer.
• Winnie the Pooh - ever popular - excellent site!
• Beatrix Potter - discover Peter Rabbit Online! or try peterrabbit.com
• "Goosebumps" - online
• Eric Carle - the author of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
• Oxford Reading Tree - a popular series of books
• Puffin Books - reviews and info.
• Penguin Books
• Scholastic - they organise our Book Club!
• ACHUKA - UK Educational Book Reviews - Comprehensive resource.

Language lessons & reference:

• Conjunctions - joining words.
• Spelling Rules - superb resource.
• English Grammar - the rules of sentence construction.
• Grammar information - excellent collection.