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Publishing companies
Collins Education Features: details on all Collins titles for frameworking, fiction, poetry, drama etc and a number of free downloads.

 
Harper Collins Features: author pages including Tolkein, Lessing and Woolf, extracts, author clips and reading guides for a range of books.

 
Heinemann Features: sample free resources

 
Teach Primary Magazine Primary magazine containing teaching ideas, reviews and free resources.

Generally teaching
BBC bitesize Interactive games to encourage confidence with numeracy and language.

 
Book box Part of Channel 4 Learning. Features interviews with leading children's authors, poets, illustrators. Suggestions for reading with reviews and excerpts. Templates for pitching "the film of the book".

 
Eggberts Adventures - Book and resources A collection of books and accompanying resources.

 
Teacher's Pet Text Tool for Teachers The Teacher's Pet Text Tool is a free add-on for Microsoft Word that can help you transform any text into a fun classroom activity. Developed by a teacher, here are just some of the things the tool can do: Crosswords Flashcards Bingo Cards Jumbles Gap-fill / Cloze tests

 
National Association for Teaching of English The organisation that represents English teachers. Read about the wider issues and get involved with your community.

 
Facebook Experience new resources and communicate with teachers around the globe.

 
Media Smart Everything you need for fun and engaging lessons on media literacy and advertising is here. Just register to access our free resources including real examples of advertising, teacher’s notes, whiteboard pages, PPTs and much more!

 
The Run Against Hunger Information on a schools initiative run by the humanitarian charity Action Against Hunger UK. Pupils are taught about nutrition and water poverty in the classroom, and then take part in a sponsored run to raise funds for malnourished children around the world. The site contains KS1 & KS2 lesson plans and resources for use in the classroom.

 
Visual Geography Geography website which collects stunning photographs, useful images and other information about countries all over the world.

Educational organisations


 
National Grid for Learning this site focuses on IT in learning. Recommended - a trip to the Virtual Teacher Centre holding classroom materials and essential links. Worth a look, though can be difficult to navigate.

 
Ofsted Office for Standards in Education.