This site was created to support anyone involved in the education and training of English teachers. The creation of this website was been undertaken by the National Association for the Teaching of English and the United Kingdom Literacy Association in association with Christ Church Canterbury University College and is funded by the Training and Development Agency for Schools.
Sponsors of the UKLA Books Awards. MLS use engaging technologies to foster a reading and information culture that promotes independent motivated readers and learners for life.
http://www.microlib.co.uk/home/default.aspx
http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1741-4350
https://www.education.gov.uk/schools/toolsandinitiatives/nationalstrategies
http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/CCC_FirstPage.jsp
http://wales.gov.uk/topics/educationandskills/?lang=en
http://www.early-education.org.uk
http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/
http://www.cilip.org.uk/default.cilip
http://www.english.heacademy.ac.uk/
http://www.literacyeurope.org/IDEC/
http://www.nawe.co.uk/metadot/index.pl?op=show&iid=2383
http://www.nationaldrama.co.uk/
Beanstalk is a national charity that recruits, vets, trains and supports volunteers to work in primary schools with children who have fallen behind with their reading.
http://www.beanstalkcharity.org.uk
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/research/groups/csnl
http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/
http://www.readingagency.org.uk/
http://www.literacy.lancaster.ac.uk
Beanstalk is a national charity that recruits, vets, trains and supports volunteers to work in primary schools with children who have fallen behind with their reading.
http://www.beanstalkcharity.org.uk
The Council for Leaning Outside the Classroom are a registered charity existing to champion learning outside the classroom (LOtC) and encourage young people (0-19yrs) to get out and about because research shows that children learn best through real world, hands on experiences. The Council took over responsibility for the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto in April 2009.
http://www.justimaginestorycentre.co.uk/
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk
http://www.yearofreading.org.uk/
http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/
http://www.scottishbooktrust.com
http://www.subjectassociation.org.uk
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/education-building-blocks/literacy/
An animated adventure into the worlds of some of the best children’s books as celebrity presenters explore the stories they hold dear.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rkywl
Beanstalk is a national charity that recruits, vets, trains and supports volunteers to work in primary schools with children who have fallen behind with their reading.
http://www.beanstalkcharity.org.uk
Thousands of book reviews from the children's book magazine on-line.
http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/reviews
http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk
- site for poetry and writing ideas.
- contains reports and research tools on the project, which studied digital literacy practices of 0-6 year-olds.
http://www.digitalbeginnings.shef.ac.uk/
A website offering free foundation stage and key stage 1 teaching resources.
http://www.earlylearninghq.org.uk
Enjoying Reading is an important new initiative to help every child love reading by encouraging schools and libraries to work in partnership. The website demonstrates how libraries can support schools and provides practical resources for joint work. Enjoying Reading is a partnership project funded by the DCSF and led by The Reading Agency, the independent charity working to get more people reading more.
http://readingagency.org.uk/children/enjoy-reading/
- writing ideas for teachers, by teachers.
http://www.everybodywrites.org.uk/
http://freestuffandsamples.com/newestsamplesblog/free-educational-games-kids/
Writers including Michael Morpurgo, Philip Pullman and Caroline Bird reveal the source of their inspiration and their writing techniques in an inspirational series of short films for the classroom.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019h5z6
John Richmond was a teacher in London from 1974 before being part of the National Writing project and the Language in the National Curriculum Project until 1992. He then worked in educational broadcasting. He has gathered together his writing from throughout his professional life and has now made it available on-line.
http://www.languageandlearning.net/
- provides advice for parents and carers on supporting children’s reading
http://www.kidsandreading.co.uk/
- the website for teaching about film, media and film-making with children, young people and adults
Media Smart is a not for profit company that develops and provides free of charge educational materials to primary schools, which teach children to think critically about advertising in the context of their daily lives.
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
http://www.rsc.org.uk/education/resources/bank/
Over the course of six short films, Simon Armitage goes behind the scenes of all his poems featured in the GCSE AQA anthology to help viewers understand and visualise the building blocks that create them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01d7m18
The new Spellathon makes spelling fun to learn and easy to teach. It's aimed at primary and secondary schools and will undoubtedly help improve spelling and literacy skills. Pupils play spelling games at school and at home and pledge to spell as many words correctly as they can. In the process, they raise funds for Mencap and their school.
Although this site is no longer live the link will signpost to other resources
http://www.teachers.tv/video/browser/892
- library of online resources for secondary English teachers
With the support of JISC (part of the Higher Education Funding Council of England) www.theFaculties.org has made approximately 300 films of lecturers speaking on themes and topics from the A-level curriculum. More than 30 of those themes are on English.
http://www.theenglishfaculty.org
A step-by-step guide of how to write a good script for television dramas such as EastEnders and E20.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jcd9n/clips
http://digitalbeginnings.blogspot.com/
http://www.digital-literacies.com/
http://www.victoriacarrington.blogspot.com/
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