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Puzzlemaker -
Create and print your own customised
puzzles for use in the classroom |
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Eclipse Crossword -
Create your own crosswords and save them
either as a worksheet or as an interactive activity |
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Clozemaker -
Download and install a programme to make
your own cloze exercises |
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Bossbrains - Free teaching
resources, worksheets, quizzes etc. |
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Pics 4 Learning - Copyright
free images for education |
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Mr.
Donn.org - Free lesson plans and activities |
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O'Brien Press - Free resources for teachers across
different curricular areas. |
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Woodlands Junior School, Kent,
UK - lots of resources on this primary school website |
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Gigglepotz -
teacher resources |
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Primary School Curriculum - Online Version of the
Curriculum Documents |
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School Express - Free lesson
plans and worksheets |
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Timeless Teachers' Stuff -
Readers' Theatre, Language Arts, High Frequency Word Lists and
lots more |
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Pete's Power Point Station - Free Presentations in Power
Point format |
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Hot Potatoes Software - The
Hot Potatoes suite includes six
applications, enabling you to create interactive
multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword,
matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. |

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Wordsearch Construction Kit |
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Crossword Construction Kit |
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Literacy and numeracy resources |
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European Schoolnet |
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Under 5s -
Early years education website |
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Free Puzzles - create all kinds of different puzzles:
crosswords, wordsearches, sudoku etc. |
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Image Bank - a Scoilnet
website, it's a searchable database of images to use for
educational purposes |
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Ar Scoil -
teacher resources |
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Everyday Teaching |
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Trócaire Education Resources |
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Awesome Clipart For Educators
- Free Clipart, fonts and colouring pages |
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Kidware Software - Free software to practise
multiplication tables. Website has other free software suitable
for the primary school. |
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Askea BNS, Carlow - Fantastic resources on many aspects
of the Curriculum on this school website. |
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Schoolhouse Technology - Some free resources to download
including wordsearches and maths worksheets |
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Scoilnet -
Portal for Irish Education including resources for most subject
areas |
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Questions Publishing Company
- publishes educational journals including "Teaching and
Learning" |
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Teachnet.ie
- resources created by Irish teachers. |
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Primary Resources - lots of resources for all aspects of
the curriculum |
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Teaching Practice Resources
- from the Teaching Practice Department of Mary Immaculate
College, Limerick |
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Anseo.net - Irish based site |
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National Grid For Learning Cymru
- interactive resources for teachers |
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Adrian Bruce's Teaching Resources |
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Edhelper - site full of
resources, worksheets, lesson plans |
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A Kid's Heart - resources
for kids and teachers |
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A to Z Teacher Stuff -
lesson plans, themes, ideas |
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BBC Schools
- Homepage |
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Discovery School - resources from Discovery Education |
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Education Matters -
Irish-based education monthly |
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Education Planet - Web Resources for pupils and teachers |
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Dositey - educational
software, games and worksheets |
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Laura Candler's
File Cabinet - teaching
resources across all curricular areas |
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RHL School -
Free Learning Resources |
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Sites For Teachers - Portal of links to educational
websites |
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Teacher 1-Stop - Lesson plans and resource centre |
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TeacherXpress - vast portal of links to educational
resources |
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Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers - lesson plans, ideas
and resources |
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Topmarks -
education resources |
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Free Printable Certificates |
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CVC Phonics Flashcards - excellent resource to print and
laminate from the Sparklebox website (.pdf file) |
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Online Story Books - excellent list
of interactive online story books |
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Wordpool - Children's book
site for parents, teachers and children |
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Mes-English - free printable
phonics, worksheets and games |
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Phonics International |
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Jolly Learning - including
Jolly Phonics, which many schools operate as the school phonics
scheme |
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The Poetry Zone |
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Children's Poetry Bookshelf |
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Children's
Poetry Archive - poets reading their own poems |
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Giggle
Poetry - fun poetry for children |
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ICDL - International Children's Digital Library - read
online books |
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Exam Support Primary English
- video learning packs for primary English for sale (see online
demos) |
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Vocabulary - vocabulary building online games like
wordsearch, crosswords, hangmouse, quizzes, match game and
unscramble |
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Write-A-Book.ie - Web Site from Blackrock Education
Centre. It has all the tips you'll need for taking part in the
project or just for general ideas for English writing. |
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Cool-Reads - excellent website which contains reviews of
books for 10-15 year olds by children in that age group. |
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Kidsreads.com - website of reviews and activities on
children's literature |
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Children's Literature - Resources for teachers. A page of
links to children's literature websites. |
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ABC Alphabet and Phonemic Awareness - goes through each
letter of the alphabet for infants. |
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How the alphabet got its order - interactive movie. |
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Left to Right - how we read and write - short interactive
movie. |
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Vowels Save the Day - short
interactive movie. |
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Silent e -
short interactive movie. |
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Sh - short
activity based on the diagraph -sh. |
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Wh - short
activity based on the diagraph -wh. |
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Th
- short activity based on the diagraph -th. |
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Ch
- short activity based on the diagraph -ch |
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Chunk That Word - short
activity on how to break up an unknown word. |
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The Lone Vowel - short
activities on vowels. |
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When Two Vowels Go Walking - short movie on the double
vowel. |
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Y Can Be a Vowel
- short movie on y as a vowel. |
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Learning To Read - Zac the Rat and other tales. |
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It's Fun to Read - Tongue Twisters |
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It's Fun to Read - Poetry |
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It's Fun to Read - Music |
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It's Fun to Read - Poetry |
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It's Fun to Read - Magic |
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It's Fun to Read - All About Me |
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A Rhyme a Week - Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy |
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Writing Fun - teaching the
different genres of writing |
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Read, Write, Think - resources for the teaching of
literacy including educational links on the web |
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BBC - Skillswise |
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ABC's of the Writing Process |
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Bird Print Writing Process |
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RIF -
Reading is Fundamental |
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Book Adventure |
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Setanta Book Club |
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Children's
Literature - resources for teachers |
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CLWG - Children's Literature Web Guide |
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Children's Literature Index -
library of teaching
resources for children's literature |
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60 Ways to
Practise Spelling |
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Teacher 2 B
- English teaching strategies |
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Reading Rockets - reading, comprehension and language
arts teaching strategies |
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Teach-nology
- creative writing teaching theme |
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Writers-in-Schools Scheme - Poetry Ireland - invite an
author into your school/classroom. |
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