Recommended for English lessons: No Fear Shakespeare

No Fear Shakespeare (nfs.sparknotes.com/) is part of the excellent Spark Notes website (www.sparknotes.com/sparknotes/), it is designed to make shakespeare easier to learn for anyone! 

No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeare's language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English—the kind of English people actually speak today. This makes it much easier to understand and infer from the text; as both versions are avalible side by side it makes comparison and understanding of not so common words so much simpler.

It also provides summaries and in depth analysis of each act/scene and character. This is useful during revision to quickly remind yourself of the story or for some extra perceptive points for your essay.

It is a huge resource for both students and teachers and the best bit is that it's free!

Recommended for English lessons: freerice.com

Freerice.com is a website in which you answer multiple-choice question on the definition of easy and difficult English words, for every correct answer, 10 grains is donated to United Nations World Food Programme, aiding those in necessity and poverty, just through your English vocabulary knowledge. Fortunately nothing negative occurs via incorrect answers. So not only does it improve a student's vocabulary knowledge, but helps improve the quality of someone's life in poorer countries. Overall I think it is a fantastically amazing website for both leisure and for teachers/students in English lessons. It also many other subjects including maths, science, modern-foreign languages, humanities even test preparation/revision, although the main and original subject is English.


Site-http://freerice.com/

Recommended for English lessons: Google Books

Students who are reluctant readers will begin reading, once they grow awareness of this book recommendation service by Google Inc. People can search and browse, even purchase from Shakespeare to Marvel comics, it is for any age, from primary to adults. The purchasing is from the most common booksellers e.g. Barnes & Noble, Amazon or Waterstones. For e-book and technology obsessives, there is an Android app and e-books to download for your Kindles, Kobos and Nooks. It even allows you to read books for free, so no online freenium.
Overall I think this will be a great resource to encourage reading among adults and children.

Site-http://books.google.com

Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.books&hl=en_GB

Reccomended for English lessons: Wordement

Wordement is available of window 8 stores.
The Game gives you a grid as shown below and you have to try and find as many words in it as possible.
So say for this you would be able to get:
Man
Me



Game Background

Say if the Word started with M you can only have the 8 letters around.

This game if Fun as well as educational



Recommended Sites for English: EnglishBiz

I recommend http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/ for anything to do with English.

It combines many sites about English, like BBC Bitesize (which is useful as well for English, and other subjects as well) so you can find everything you need about English. But not necessarily how to spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis! Yes, it is a real word!

Riddlesdown Digital Leaders - Subject Blog Challenge

Over the course of the next couple of months our blossoming bloggers here at Riddlesdown will be completing blogging challenges.  They will be researching and recommending digital tools, apps and sites for various subjects.  Each of our wonderful student Digital Leaders will be producing short snappy blog posts about their top recommendation/s for your subject.

So teachers and students alike - stay tuned!

The schedule of topics is below for your perusal.

Thursday 6th of February - English
Thursday 13th of February - Maths
Thursday 27th of February - Science
Thursday 6th of March - Modern Foreign Languages
Thursday 13th March - Geography
Thursday 20th March - History
Thursday 27th March - PE
Thursday 3rd April - Art