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BOOK REVIEWS | QUIZZES & GAMES | INTERNET LINKS

LOOK, COVER, WRITE AND CHECK - Powerful online spelling tool. Teachers and pupils can create their own lists or adapt and choose from many built in lists. Children at Ambleside can create their own personal lists!(Req. FLASH4)

Our Online Book review section - read our reviews or add your own!

WORD GAMES & QUIZZES

The SUPERSPELLER - Prefixes and Suffixes - Try Year 4's machine!

The Interactive Pet Adventure - Can you make it home?

Jungle Adventure featuring "Lara Amble" - We have been using some excellent adventure gamebooks to explore story and plot development. Try out our own interactive Jungle Adventure!

Crazy Story Machine - try our own interactive story generator!

Crazy Limerick Machine - Made by children in Year 4 - Check it out!

Haiku Generator made by Year 4 - on the theme of the lake District

Ancient Greeks Comprehension - read carefully and you'll be OK.

Science Comprehension Test - learn all about refraction.

Call my Bluff - challenging word definition game by Year 4

Homophones - their / there / they're quiz.

Homophones 2 - spot the easily mispelled words in this story.

Homophones 3 - are, our, hour - sort your spelling with this game made by Year 4

Easily Confused Words 1 - more homophones!

Easily Confused Words 2 - yet more homophones!

Plurals Quiz - test your spelling with this tricky quiz.

Sentence Machine - make silly sentences!

Literacy Quiz - do your best with our challenging test.

For more interactive activities, try our new ClickOn@AmbleWeb section

The best Internet resources for word study:

• Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Guides - all their books are online now!
• Wordcentral - excellent games, puzzles and a cipher machine - Great!
• Rhyming Dictionary - perfect poetry - you'll never be stuck for ideas again!
• Websters Dictionary - fast and accurate resource.
• Wordsmyth English Dictionary - superb
• Roget's Online Thesaurus - massive database of words - Excellent.
• Connected Thesaurus - extremely powerful but complicated.

Newspaper Archives to read online:

• Guardian Century - The last 100 years news as reported by the Guardian Newspaper - Essential site for History or language study.

Online Literacy activities / sites of interest:

• Listen & Write - excellent BBC site - try their challenges and send in your work!.
• Everything you wanted to know about Haiku - don't make any without reading this first!
• 200+ Proverbs - Good!
• Wacky Web Tales - make up a silly story here.
• Kids News - online writing site - superb
• Crazy Story Maker - another story machine on the web - try it out. It's great!
• Sunshine - very good literacy resources.
• National Year of reading & Authors Online - try their challenges.
• The Literacy Trust - activites and ideas.
• Literacy activities - by Ginn and Heineman - educational publishers.
• Kids on the net - fun writing activites.
• Guess the word - ace word definition game.
• Online Picture Dictionary - letters, pictures & Internet links - great!
• Childrens Literature Website - many great ideas and links.
• Online Books Database - read hundreds of books on the Internet.
• The Readin! - fantastic reading ideas - links around the world!
• Nikolai's Bookshelf - lots of online writing activities.
• Babelfish - European Languages translator - explore sentence construction, spelling and common sounds in French, German, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese! Awesome!
• Stories from the age of fairy tales
• Aesop's Fables
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Bedtime stories
• Story books online
• Deep in the bush - stories from Africa
• Disney stories

Authors and Publishers Online:

• Complete poetical works by Wordsworth - loads of local influence here!
• Authors on the web
• Harry Potter books by Scholastic - information about this popular series.
• "Dr Seuss" - popular site with many games and activities.
• The Enid Blyton Website - information and activities.
• "Treasure Island" - read the story online - with activities!
• Roald Dahl Pages - all about this popular children's writer.
• Winnie the Pooh - ever popular - excellent site!
• Beatrix Potter - discover Peter Rabbit Online! or try peterrabbit.com
• "Goosebumps" - online
• Eric Carle - the author of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
• Oxford Reading Tree - a popular series of books
• Puffin Books - reviews and info.
• Penguin Books
• Scholastic - they organise our Book Club!
• ACHUKA - UK Educational Book Reviews - Comprehensive resource.

Language lessons & reference:

• Conjunctions - joining words.
• Spelling Rules - superb resource.
• English Grammar - the rules of sentence construction.
• Grammar information - excellent collection.