Literacy Hour Activities

Call my Bluff - challenging word definition game.

Spelling Test 1 - their / there / they're quiz.

Spelling Test 2 - spot the easily misspelled words in this story.

Spelling Test 3 - are / our / hour quiz.

Literacy Quiz - do your best with this challenging test.

Plurals Quiz - test your spelling with this tricky quiz.

Story Maker - try the interactive story generator.

Some sources of literary information

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

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.
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.
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!
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.