Literacy+Resources+&+Links

 __** Literacy Resources & Links **__

__ Some Useful Links..... __ **Story Starters -** //very fun// way of coming up with a story idea: [] **Spelling City** - the place to go if you have spelling words to practice: [] **Writing Fun** - An excellent site for looking at different writing styles [] **Poetry 4 Kids** - A selection of poetry samples for kids: [ [] ] [ [] ] [] **Dust Echoes** - A collection of amazing Dreamtime stories: [] **International Reading Association** - with links for teachers and students: []
 * Rhyme Zone** - A rhyming dictionary to help children plan poetry:
 * Read Write Think** - Another great poetry site:

The best Internet resources for word study: 
 * 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.
 * [|Dictionary .com]
 * [|Thesaurus.com]

Language lessons & reference: 
 *  [|Conjunctions] - joining words.
 *  [|Spelling Rules] - superb resource.
 *  [|English Grammar] - the rules of sentence construction.
 *  [|Grammar information] - excellent collection.

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