Education and Children's Links
- Useful Links for Teachers
- New Zealand Book links
- As part of the School Journal's 100 year celebrations, children were asked to write about their favourite School Journal author or illustrator. Click here to see the winners.
Bubble Dom Interactive writing workshops for kids
Poetry Zone Created by poet Roger Stevens who is based in Britain. Poetry Zone publishes children's poems and has teacher resources, competitions and interviews with poets.
www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books A BBC site dedicated to books and writing.
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/games/ A BBC site with loads of great games practicing literacy and helping you study for exams
Kids Friendly New Zealand A free e-magazine for New Zealand parents with a small section on New Zealand books.
International Board on Books for Young People
Writers Window A New Zealand-based writing site for young people's writing submissions, and open discussion.
Cool Reads Hundreds of books reviewed by 10-15 year olds. Users are invited to send in their own reviews or comments. There is an opportunity to play book games and quizzes, or join the cool-talk discussion forum.
Tennyson Street Workshops A two-week summer school for budding writers. All of the tutors have their MA in Creative Writing from Bill Manhire's writing school.
Useful Sites for Young Readers from the British Council
The National Literacy Trust An independent charity dedicated to building a literate nation and raise literacy standards for all age groups throughout the UK.
Booktrusted.com This section of the Booktrust's website is dedicated to children's books and resources for professionals working with young readers.
The National Reading Campaign Information about promoting reading for all ages and abilities throughout the whole community.
The Reading Agency A charity working to inspire and support libraries in creating the best access to reading for everyone.
Cool Reads Hundreds of books reviewed by 10-15 year olds. Users are invited to send in their own reviews or comments. There is an opportunity to play book games and quizzes, or join the cool-talk discussion forum.
CWA Digital Conversations This website showcases video conferences throughout the year, including our WordSpace video conferences, two of which are fully accessible online.
Centre of New Zealand Studies This will grow into a vast website with one of its key functions to act as an outreach facility. It acts in combination with the NZSA website and the aim is for many of the pages to be up by the end of November. Also note that the NZSA website is currently being updated.
Amongst the new material that can be found, photos are now on display from previous NZSA conferences (Florence will follow soon). Address at http://www.nzsa.co.uk.
Educational resources from First Class Schools.
Kids Friendly New Zealand A free e-magazine for New Zealand parents with a small section on New Zealand books.
TES One of the world's leading educational newspapers.
Teaching Struggling Readers Glavach and Associates publishes research-based reading programmes for struggling readers.
Poetry for Teachers Contains many ideas and lesson plans for teaching poetry.
Book Backchat An interactive online discussion that schools in New Zealand can sign up to take part in; focussing on five books per term.
Book Lady Reading Groups Aimed at keen readers, this is a reading materials-assisted book group. The cost of sets of books included in the sign-up fee.
Te Kete Ipurangi - The Online Learning Centre A bilingual website provided by the Ministry of Education, this is the bible for curriculum, planning and key initiatives.
The National Literacy Trust An independent charity dedicated to building a literate nation and raise literacy standards for all age groups throughout the UK.
Booktrusted.com This section of the Booktrust's website (UK) is dedicated to children's books and resources for professionals working with young readers.
The National Reading Campaign Information about promoting reading for all ages and abilities throughout the whole community.
The Reading Agency A charity working to inspire and support libraries in creating the best access to reading for everyone.
New Zealand Association for the Teachers of English This is the site for the New Zealand Association for the Teachers of English, a good resource site for teachers of English. There are several regional assocations also listed on this site.
100 Books Every Child Should Read This is a link to an article by Michael Morpurgo, from the Daily Telegraph, about the teaching of reading in schools. Has links to a good list of books that every child should read.
Create Readers A highly recommended blog from the National Library School Services team about getting children reading.
Buzz Words A fortnightly online magazine, Buzz Words, is targeted at children’s writers, illustrators, librarians, teachers and editors. The magazine includes interviews with editors, authors, illustrators, agents, booksellers and publicists as well as writing markets, opportunities, competitions, courses, conferences, book reviews and valuable industry information all related to the children’s book industry. The link is to a sample version only, please subscribe for future issues.
