English+Literacy

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** Storyline Online **
Streaming video program featuring famous people reading children's books aloud. []

====** Tar Heel Readers - ** a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches. ==== []

**Dr Seuss - Let's Write** - Al lows students to create their own story book complete with characters, music and settings [|www.seussville.com/games/storymaker/story_maker.html]

**Power Talk Automated Speech for PowerPoint** **-** Free downloadable program speaks the texts written in PowerPoint, uses a synthesized computer voice.
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 * BBC CBeebies Fairy Tales - ** Stories for a range of age froups and levels, includes well known fairy tales.

**SillyBooks.net** - includes some books that are read and a range of different levels.
[|www.sillybooks.net]

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 * Spelling City ** - Free spelling learning activities and games. Allows you to enter your student's word lists and creates vocabulary, spelling and puncutation games based on these list words.

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 * Starfall ** - A free website to teach children to read with phonics. For preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Exciting phonics games and online interactive books.

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 * Punctuation Paintball ** - An engaging and fun game that helps students to learn how to punctuate properly

[|www.bosnsw-k6.nsw.edu.au/files/english/k6engmodules_syl.pdf]
 * K-6 English modules ** - Contains syllbus outcomes and modules for NSW Primary School English curriculum.

**Literacy Planet** - Developing English literacy skills in a motivating and rewarding digital learning environment. [|www.literacyplanet.com/]

**Wordle** - is a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. [|www.wordle.net/]

** Storybird - **Children can create their own digital stories [|www.storybird.com]

**Billy Bear Writing** - create your own worksheets, suitable for younger students [|www.billybear4kids.com/worksheets/start-writing.html]

**Trove** - Thousands of Australian and online resources:books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more. []

**bubbl.us** - A mind mapping site that can be used on computer, IWB and printed out for theme-based learning activities, prior and post knowledge assessments. [] []
 * CLI Sites2See ** - a site powered by the NSW Curriculum and Learning Innovation Centre. Contains links to a variety of other sites on a range of topics.

**epals** - students and teachers can connect and collaborate globally in a protected, project-based learning network. [|www.epals.com/]

**Wiki Spaces for Educators** - free to create and allows teachers and students rto share text, images, web links and audio-visual content. [|www.wikispaces.com/content/for/teachers/]

**Digital Storytelling** - uses digital tools to tell a story. Stories use a mixture of computer-based, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Used to introduce projects, reinforce concepts and appeal to a variety of learning types. This web link contains over 30 digital storytelling sites for students. [|www.ilearntechnology.com/?p=3190]

[|www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/onlinestory.htm]
 * Talking Stories **

[|www.beenleigs.qld.edu.au/requested_sites/storiesontheweb/storiesontheweb.htm]
 * Stories 2 read **

[|www.storylineonline.net/]
 * Online Stories **

[|www.espresso.co.uk/index.htm]
 * Espresso Education - ** an extensive library of high quality, video-rich broadband teaching resources and student activities that motivates pupils and supports teachers.

[|www.petewells.co.uk]
 * Free Sensory Stories ** - a compliation of free sensory stories

**Literacy Zone** - interactive English games and activities suitable for Primary aged students []