Homework help: English

BBC: Literacy

Games and activities designed to support literacy hour for the under 12s.

BBC Little Animals Activity Centre

A fun way for 4-8 year olds to learn through play when you enter the world of Foxy Dancer and Digby Mole. Literacy and numeracy activities.

BBC ReviseWise: English

Activities and tests for 4-11 year olds. Includes reading, writing, spelling and grammar. There's also a games zone for when you need a break from revising.

BBC Starship: English

Different literacy games and activities for 6-7 year olds which help with writing the beginnings of stories, reading, punctuation and spelling. The activities are also printable.

BBC Words and Pictures

A really good interactive site with poems, games and a gallery to showcase work, all to help with reading and writing. Aimed at 5-7 year olds.

Listen and write

Another site from the BBC, this one has writing activities, audio poems, a gallery of work and more.

Word Central

Online dictionary that lets you look up words quickly, build up your own dictionary and sign up for the daily buzzword.

Writing Fun

A useful site for helping with the writing process. It shows you different structures so you know what to include. Includes different examples for different ages.

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