The Literacy Framework has a section devoted to ICT ideas: ICT Applications.
This zipped file contains a summary of the units with explicit reference to children's use of ICT: Literacy ICT Links.zip
Poetry
Children's Poetry Archive - a marvellous collection of poems, information about poets and recordings of poets reading their own poems.
Poetry Archive
Films for Literacy
Great ideas and resources from Filmstreet.
British Film Institute
"Look Again" - a fantastic free book to download with film teaching ideas.
Screen Online - access within school to clips from a range of movies
Sph3re - animations, short films and trailers to download
BBC Learning Zone
ITunes - download the software to have access to a huge number of video podcasts.
Eurocreator - films from children and teachers (where you can upload your own)
Films for Learning - films from children and teachers (where you can upload your own)
TeacherTube - films created by teachers for teachers
Of course, there is always YouTube. Your school can arrange for teachers to have password-protected access to this in school. If not, Zamzar is a great way to download and save movies from Youtube. Choose URL, paste the web address in the first box, select to save as AVI and the site will email a link for you to download your video. Really easy and quick!
Interactive Whiteboards
Children's ICT in Literacy
If you use 2Simple software, they have documents with lesson ideas for each of the Literacy Framework units.
See the Word Processing and Multimedia, Graphics and Digital Video, Online Communication and Music and Sound sections of this site.
Ictopus Lessons 2 Go: Literacy
Myths & Legends: A fantastic collection of myths & legends. Create your own myth.
Comic Life is a fantastic easy-to-use comic creator tool. It's free for 30 days, which is enough for your first project, after which it's very reasonably priced.
Vocaroo is a great site for recording your voice and sending it as an email.
IBoard - 70 free activities. If your school registers you can have 30 more, with others very cheaply.
Online Big Books
Woodlands Junior's site linking to online talking stories.
Fiction & Narrative Big Books: Good selection of KS1 & KS2 online big books.
Phonics
Kent ICT site
ICT Games
Digby Mole from the Little Animals Activity Centre
NGFL Cymru Phonics activities
BBC Words and Pictures
BBC KS1 Bitesize
LCF Clubs
CLLD Website Phonics resources for Interactive Whiteboard (in Smart Notebook format or as Flash versions)
Whiteboard Active
Hanging Monkeys - for CVC words
Seaside Flags - for CVC words
Spelling
Look cover write check
A collection of spelling games from Woodlands Junior School.
Spelling City - type your spelling words then play a choice of games to practise them.
BBC Spellits
Spellbound - dragging and dropping letters.
Coconut Vowels - for practising long vower phonemes
Interactive Spelling Bee- listening to words then spelling them in context
Dance Mat Typing
Suggested texts
Letterbox Library - resources for multicultural and non-sexist books
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