Shop Horror – Funny Shop Names

Shop Horror – Funny Shop Names
9/9/2009 – Amusing collection of photographs of shop signs that use puns. Almost safe for school, depending on parental attitudes to risque phrases, e.g. the opticians called “Spex Appeal”.

Printable Flash Cards for Vocabulary Words-with Photographs

Printable Flash Cards for Vocabulary Words-with Photographs
11/6/09 – Learn new vocabulary in an appealing, visual way. The pictures are – in the main – of particularly high quality.

Vocabulary Game

This is from my TES post on the same theme. ——————————————————————————————-
An idea popped into my head and I would appreciate suggestions as to how I might improve it.
I thought about calling it “Top that” or something similar. The idea would be to teach children both synonyms and degrees/shades of meaning.

Children would collect synonyms from [...]

Spelling List Generator – BrendenisTeaching.com

Spelling List Generator – BrendenisTeaching.com
29/3/09 – “Using a database of UK words, produce spelling lists and/or flashcards based on the criteria you set. The ’search’ set of search types will take your search term and use the filter you select. The other search types are pre-selected words, which you can limit in size and categorise [...]

Write rhymes.com – find ryhmes for any word

Write rhymes.com – find ryhmes for any word
13/7/08 – Simply type a word and alt-click on it for a list of rhyming words, ordered by number of syllables. Nothing for “orange” or “purple” though!

Easily the best spelling site on the web…

Easily the best spelling site on the web…
19/4/08 – spellingcity.com is superb! The best feature is the fact that you can generate your own list and ask it to test your pupils. You then hear your spelling list words spoken (choose individually or in a sentence). There are also thousands of saved spelling [...]

English Spelling Games and Activities

English Spelling Games and Activities
tags: English.Word.Level
25/3/08 – Another great compilation from Woodlands school.

Year4spellingpage

Year4spellingpage
tags: English.Word.Level
25/3/08 – Ronseal

Wordplay Grammar Clinic

Wordplay© grammar clinic Annotated
tags: english.sentence.level, english.word.level

Common mistakes in English grammar,
and the simple rules that will keep you on track.

Free Teaching Resources
tags: ks1, resources

Learnenglish.de – Grammar Page

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammarpage.htm – very comprehensive and easy-to-use site with succinct definitions and examples relating to most grammatical terms.