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Learn.co.uk  is one of the largest learning resources on the web. Use it for homework, revision, or preparing lessons. 
The lessons and tests link provides comprehensive coverage of the core subjects at key stage 4/GCSE (15-16) and key stage 3 (11-14). These materials, though targeted at the national curriculum for England and Wales, also provide support for teachers and learners in Scotland and Northern Ireland
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Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers


Teachers Ideas root  Quirky but useful. This page is in three sections.... 
(1) Miscellaneous links to sites other than specific schools, 
(2) links to schools, 
(3) teaching ideas from site editor, Tom Boyd.


Teachit Teachit aims to be the best resource on the web for English teachers and is the result of our own frustrated efforts to find useful teaching materials on the internet! Visit the online library for teaching ideas and materials providing everything you need for planning tomorrow's first lesson or (for the very efficient) next term's scheme of work ..these are downloadable and photocopiable - all you have to do is find a suitable topic and a photocopier! The library also provides links to other useful web sites which we have found in our travels around the internet.


RHL School - Free Worksheets and More Your place to get an enormous supply of free quality worksheets for teaching, reinforcement, and review. Looking for lesson plans? Many of these worksheets can serve as the basis for lessons.


Penguin Classics Teachers' Guides comprise a variety of activities and discussion questions to stimulate your students' reactions and responses to the classic literature they are studying.

  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  • Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
  • A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen
  • A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Odyssey by Homer
  • Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
  • King Lear by William Shakespeare
  • Macbeth by William Shakespeare
  • Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
  • Othello by William Shakespeare
  • Richard III by William Shakespeare
  • The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
  • The Tempest by William Shakespeare
  • The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Marc's Lesson Plans Page



Site of the Week msn English links
English Online A subscription site, but there is high quality taster material
Innovative Classroom  Resources and Lesson Plans - US
Learn.co.uk - learning resources for the UK national curriculum, online lessons, GCSE revision, exam support, and much more ...From "The Guardian" Learn.co.uk is the leading educational website for students, teachers and parents. Use it for homework, revision, or preparing lessons. It is one of the largest learning resources on the web, with more than 4,000 pages of curriculum material and building daily. The online lesson and test links provide comprehensive coverage of the core subjects at key stage 4/GCSE (15-16) and key stage 3 (11-14). Primary resources will follow soon.
Open2.NET: The home of Open University
broadcasts on the BBC.

 

RSPB Obvious environmental interest, but also includes English worksheets., and assembly materials.


English Basics - Free Grammar and Writing Worksheets


Module Maker Includes Maths and Science


Reading Comprehension - Free Worksheets


Library of Congress Learning Page: Lesson Framework Using primary sources in research papers and projects is a time-honoured way to engage students with primary historical materials. Yet primary sources can be incorporated into all phases of instruction. This framework will help you use primary sources throughout your teaching.


Primary schemes of work
DfEE standards site - clear and helpful.


Teachers Ideas root Quirky but useful. This page is in three sections.... (1) Miscellaneous links to sites other than specific schools, (2) links to schools, (3) teaching ideas from site editor, Tom Boyd.


Clickteaching.com : free worksheets, lesson plans, teaching resources and activity ideas for schools and teachers. Online resource database for primary education. All of the teaching resources available on this site have been produced by
teachers who use the ideas everyday in their own classrooms.

EDSITEment  Subject-based access to top humanities sites, EDSITEment lesson plans and at-home activities, and additional learning activities. US