Subjects

Reading Scheme Links

The home of Peter and Jane… yes they are still about! – good stuff on the pages that are linked from this one too.

The BBC series, magic key, stems from this… designed to be less “sexist and dry” according to one page, than a certain scheme you probably learnt with!

Jolly Learning

Lots of schools use Jolly Phonics and it is advocated by at least one Montessori Site too.

Reading a-z

Hooked on Phonics

Startreading

The book Teach your child to read in 100 Easy Lessons, the DISTAR reading scheme, is described here.

Cambridge Reading

Another reading scheme – not one i know a lot about to be honest!

Letterland

Lots of people love this – each letter is represented by a character drawn around it. There are vast quantities of learning merchandise to accompany it too.

Bricks and Mortar

An online, downloadable reading scheme

Wiggleworks

BOB Books

Really unusual – i love these!

Ladybird – understanding reading

us govt site

kidsource

http://www.learntoreadandspell.com/

all about eve

bbc games

motherwise

educate

A school psychologists view on reading failure

http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/res/teach/

http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/reading/ericE565.html

http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/reading/ldrp_chard_guidelines.html

Alphabet

Owl and Mouse

Downloadable software for learning letters and sounds. If you follow the links into the rest of the site, there is some really good stuff there too!

Preschool Learning

Games, animated Flash letters and colouring pages.

abcteach

A whole load of scripts to choose, printables, colourables and some good further links too. One of my favourite current sites. I like the DeskTop Strips – what an image!

The Virtual Alphabet

Now this is nice – songs for every letter and various other things too – each page attractively presented.

KiddyHouse – Teachers Page

Some good looking phonics stuff here.

DTLK

Colouring pages, tracer pages, sentence work and more.

Preschool Education

This sites alphabet page.

Mrs Alphabet

I haven’t really been through this yet but it looks quite cool!

Childfun – alphabets

Again, a huge site. The alphabet section has a list of links and ideas for every letter.

Online Activities

Yellowstone Alphabet

A really brilliant site with animals from the Yellowstone National Park for every letter. What a lot of learning opportunities.

A is for Angelfish

A pretty online gallery of things beginning with different letters.

Learning Planet

A simple online game for letters and picture recognition – not phonic pronunciation though…

About – fridgedoor game

Quite fun – choose a letter and get a series of fridge doors where yuo find something that corresponds to the letter you chose.

Learning Planet

An online alphabet order game.

Colouring Pages

Learning Planet

Colouring pages that go with the above game

Hedgies – Alphabet

These are beautiful colouring pages with script practise built into them. There are various styles of writing built into the pages as choices.

Alphabet Colouring Book

From the site above, a really attractive DIY colouring book.

Link Pages

Nanana

A big list of games and links related to the alphabet.

ABC Books

An online list of alphabet books.

Other Stuff

Moving Alphabet

Now this is funny – moving gifs of every letter to download. I shall try to add some to the page when I get a chance.

Teach a Child To Read

An informative site suggesting ways to go about teaching your child to read.

Rhyming and Word play

This is a simple but clever little page that intoduces some of the oddities of the English Language into games. If your child is interested in endings that rhyme and why dear and deer sound the same, visit and enjoy!

Nature Walks

I’m afraid this page is unashamedly English in content – I really wanted to collate some resources for finding places to go but there was only any point in doing ones relevant to me – however, if anyone ever wants to supply sites that are useful for other countries, I will happily give them webspace. The links below are all related to places to go in the UK or peculiar to UK species and environment. What I would like is a guide on how to hellp children and parents get the best from a nature walk.

English Nature – One of the UKs main Societies relating to our countryside.

The National Trust – as the above but also with a lot of stately homes and gardens

Woodland Trust –

CountryLovers

Ramblers Association – Urban Walks

A Walk on the Wildside – a snapshot of nature walks

The GetOutGuide – erm…. self explanatory i hope!

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds – finding nature reserves and information on birds

Trees & Leaves

Desperate Plea – i haven’t really found what I wanted at all for this page – i wanted outlines of UK trees in different seasons with pictures of their leaves, flowers and fruit, all in fairly simple line drawings. If you know of some, please let me know! I have only used these pages fairly briefly so please let me know which ones deserve a golden egg!