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Literature Cool Sites! Book Adventure www.bookadventure.com Book Adventure is a free, online reading programme for children, brought to you by the experts at Sylvan Learning. Their goal is to help you learn to love reading through interactive games and rewards. You can find a book, take quizzes and win prizes for your reading success. There’s something for everyone at Book Adventure! Reading Eggs readingeggs.co.uk With interactive animations, fun games, great songs and lots of rewards, Reading Eggs is a great place to learn to read. At Reading Eggs, learning to read is enjoyable as well as very rewarding. Every lesson ends with a new book and a new critter to add to your growing collection. KS1 Bitesize Literacy www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy Here you can find a selection of online interactive games to practice your literacy skills. From River Rhyming to Deep Sea Phonics and Pirate Spelling, there is something for everyone! KS2 Bitesize English www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english App-tastic! StoryKit FREE – iPad, iPhone Create an electronic storybook. To create your story: Write some text and then illustrate by drawing on the screen, taking a photograph of something you see, or drawing on paper and then photographing the paper, or attaching photos from your album. Sounds can be recorded for telling your story or as sound effects. You can change the layout of your story (text boxes, images, and sound clips) freely by dragging them or pinching to resize. Comic Life £2.99 – iPad, iPhone Comic Life is the funniest, easiest and fastest way ever to create photo comics on a mobile device. Your comics come to life with this reader. Easily go from taking photos to creating full comics all on one device with full page templates and layouts. Bring in photos from Photobooth or your library, and use the powerful editing and design tools to get exactly the look you want. Squeebles Spelling Test £1.49 – iPad, iPhone, Android Similar to the KS1 Bitesize Literacy site, this website contains interactive games to practice your English skills. Divided into Reading, Writing and Spelling and Grammar, there is lots here to keep you occupied! Perfect for 5 to 11 year olds, Squeebles Spelling Test allows you to set up completely personalised spelling tests for yourself, giving you the opportunity to practice in a fun, interactive way. Crickweb KS2 Literacy iF Poems www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html £0.69 – iPad, iPhone This website contains 20 Key Stage 2 Literacy interactive learning resources. It has English educational games and activities for you to try at home. Learn and practice spelling, sentences, verbs, collective nouns, compound words, singular to plural, story sequencing, alphabetical order and grammar. iF Poems is an acclaimed poetry app with 270 classic poems and audio readings by Helena Bonham Carter, Bill Nighy, Tom Hiddleston and Harry Enfield.. 10% of the sales of the iF Poems app goes to help the work of Save The Children. 12 | FUSE Marvellous Maths Cool Sites! IXL  uk.ixl.com Practice makes perfect, and IXL makes maths practice fun. With hours of interactive games and exercises, you can practice your maths at home with this fun website. When asked to log in, press “Continue as Guest” to practice for free.  KS1 BBC Bitesize Maths www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths Pick from a variety of online games and quizzes to help you perfect your maths. From Camel Times Tables to Igloo Shopping to help you practice with currency, there is a lot to get you started here.  KS2 BBC Bitesize Maths www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths Similar to KS1 Bitesize Maths but a little harder! On this site your maths exercises are split into ‘Number’,  ‘Shape, Space and Measure’ and ‘Handling Data’.  Woodlands Resources resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths This site has several fun online interactive activities to not only help you improve your mental maths abilities,but also to help you revise all other areas of maths too!  Primary Maths Games www.primarymathsgames.net This website contains loads of fun games for practicing your maths at home. There are games to practice your addition, multiplication, subtraction and also some general fun maths games! Tutpup www.tutpup.com/ Again, this website contains some more online, interactive maths games for you to try at home.  Gamequarium www.gamequarium.org This websites contains hundreds of maths based games, ranging from Geometry to Roman Numerals. There is something for everyone here! App-tastic! Math Bingo £0.63 - Android, £0.69 - iPhone, iPad The object of Math BINGO is to get a pattern of five BINGO Bugs in a row by correctly answering math problems. Squeebles Times Tables £1.49 - Android, iPhone, iPad The Squeebles times tables app has been completely revamped in this new version where you have to help Whizz rescue 35 of the Squeebles from the nasty Maths Monster by doing well in your times tables.  Operation Math £1.25 - Android, £1.99 - iPhone, iPad,  Dr. Odd is on a global quest to eliminate the world’s even numbers. 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