General Resources For Teachers
ABC Teach - Thousands of English teaching resources at your fingertips
Busy Teachers Cafe - An excellent resources of lesson plans, worksheets, websites and other ideas for the primary classroom
English Biz - An absolutely magnificent site providing information on reading, writing and analysing non-fiction and fiction texts
English Zone - Heaps of worksheets covering all aspects of teaching English
The Standards Site - UK Governments Official Site for English Curriculum
Free Printables for Teachers - This website is a collection of FREE printables for teachers, spelling challenge, anagram challenge, just vowels, home math, spot the anagram, math worksheets, colouring pictures, clip arts and software for teachers
English Resources - One of the best free English resources sites on the net with thousands of lesson plans, units of work and worksheets free for you to download.
InstructorWeb - Access to hundreds of lesson plans for English teacher. Become a free member.
School Express - Over 11 000 worksheets for free download
Teachit - An excellent site full of English teaching resources for a variety of different texts and themes
TeacherNet - Probably one of the most useful sites on the net for teachers of English
Teachers' TV - A collection of videos from Teachers' TV Channel giving advice on a variety of English resources
The Blue
Book of Grammar and Punctuation - Some free online punctuation
activities.
School Express - A Great
collection of Worksheets
Clauses
Buzzin - Information about clauses and an online activity
English Zone - A collection of resources and activities on noun, adjective, adverb and conditional clauses
Waylink English - Information and examples of different clauses
Identifying Independent Clauses - Interactive activity on clauses
OWL - Independent and Dependent Clause definitions and examples
Relative and Contact Clauses - definitions and examples
Buzzin - Information about phrases and an online activityWaylink English - Information and examples of different phrases
BBC Skillswise - Interactive "Getting the Right Tense" site with definitions, games and worksheets
Waylink English - Past, Present and Future Tense definitions and examples
Myths and Legends - An excellent site that allows you to create your own Myths and Legends as well as read many others
GCSE Bitesize Non-Fiction - A collection of strategies and exercises for reading non-fiction texts at a Year 9 and 10 level
English Biz - An absolutely magnificent site providing information on reading, writing and analysing non-fiction and fiction texts
Writing to Inform, Explain and Describe - BBC site for Informative, Explanatory and Descriptive Genres
English Biz - An absolutely magnificent site providing information on reading, writing and analysing non-fiction and fiction texts
KS3 Bitesize Reading - A great collection of revision notes regarding a number of different reading strategies and exercises
Writing
English Biz - An absolutely magnificent site providing information on reading, writing and analysing non-fiction and fiction texts
KS3 Bitesize Writing - A great collection of revision notes and exercises to help students practise writing across a number of different genres.
Writing to Analyse, Review and Comment - BBC Site about writing articles
Writing to Argue, Persuade and Advise - BBC Site about argumentative, persuasive and advice texts
Writing to Inform, Explain and Describe - BBC site for Information, Explanation and descriptive texts
Clicknotes Shakespeare - Navigate through the plays for:
- The Taming of the Shrew
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- The Merchant of Venice
- Romeo and Juliet
- Twelfth Night
- Julius Caesar
- Hamlet
- Othello
- Macbeth
KS3 Bitesize Shakespeare - Set summaries for The
Tempest and Romeo and Juliet
GCSE Bitesize MacBeth - Thorough examination of the play including context, plot, dramatic effect, themes, language and an extended theme question
GCSE Bitesize Much Ado About Nothing - Thorough examination of the play including context, plot, dramatic effect, themes, language and an extended theme question
GCSE Bitesize Othello - Thorough examination of the play including context, plot, dramatic effect, themes, language and an extended theme question
GCSE Bitesize Romeo and Juliet - Thorough examination of the play including context, plot, dramatic effect, themes, language and an extended theme question
GCSE Bitesize The Merchant of Venice - Thorough examination of the play including context, plot, dramatic effect, themes, language and an extended theme question
King Lear Site - Excellent site with background resources, summaries, lesson plans, themes, terminologies and a whole lot more!
A Midnight Summer's Dream Unit of Work
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - All of Shakespeare's Plays available to view online
Shakespeare SAT Papers - Although KS3 SATs are no longer being implemented in the UK, these papers are an excellent guide to questions that may be asked in exam conditions