Best English Resources

September 2024 — Use EdTech Impact to find the best English resources for your school.

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Part of the Bug Club family, Bug Club Phonics is one of the DfE’s approved phonics teaching programmes and aims to help all children in your school learn to read by the age of six in a fun and accessible way. 134 fully decodable readers with fiction and... Show more
An Engaging Activity Book To Practice Reading, Writing And Language SkillsSix Carefully Levelled Bug Club Phonics Stories With Clear Parent Notes To Help Children Grow In Reading Confidence A Parent Guide To Help You Guide Your Child Through Their Reading Journey.

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0-4, 5-7

A consistent approach to raising English standards Wordsmith is a fully-integrated programme for reading comprehension, speaking and listening, grammar and writing, designed to ensure progress for every child. Wordsmith provides you with a consistent approach to teaching with detailed planning to help you improve results in English.... Show more
A Consistent Whole-school Approach To English TeachingBe Ready For The Tough New Sats With Plenty Of Preparation OpportunitiesIncludes Units On Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry And ‘live Units’

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5-7, 8-10

Square Panda is an adaptive platform that helps children ages 2-8 from all socioeconomic backgrounds learn to read, write, and communicate through fun games grounded in research and uses a multisensory approach, combining sight, touch and sound in each play experience. Square Panda creates a joyful learning experience... Show more

Paid

0-4, 5-7

Fonetti® is home to the world’s first Listening Books™. We at Auris Tech have developed Listening Books™ using our proprietary Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model that is designed specifically to listen and respond to a child’s read-speech in real-time. This capability to understand this niche linguistic pattern... Show more

5-7, 8-10, 11-13

The creative writing approach to help your children grow as writers, write for pleasure and meet age related expectations. Power English: Writing is a new, dynamic KS2 writing approach, which is genre-focused and encourages children to develop writing using their own interests and ideas. Using an evidence-based... Show more
Teaching Guides For Each Year Group Contain Structured Lesson Plans And Mini‑lessonsInteractive Online Planner Contains Lesson Plans Linked To To Front Of Class Teaching Screens, Worksheets And VideosWriting Tips & Tricks Cards Cover Grammar, Punctuation And Spelling For Each Year Group

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8-10

An online world for all your teaching and learning services. For teachers, it’s an extensive repository of structured teaching material, with in-depth planning, assessment and reporting built in. For children, a fun pupil world they can access in school and at home to find all the books, games and... Show more
Online Pupil WorldIn-depth Planning And AssessmentIn-built Reporting
Digital Theatre+ provides every student and teacher in your school with 24/7, on-demand access to an evolving online collection of curriculum-mapped and standards aligned resources for English and the Performing Arts. Including live captures, interviews, study guides, lesson plans and more!... Show more
High-quality ResourcesOnline ProductionsLesson Plans

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11-13, 14-16, 17-18, 19+

Cracking Comprehension From Rising Stars is an educational resource designed to enhance students' reading comprehension skills. It provides a structured approach to understanding texts, making it easier for students to grasp complex ideas and themes. The program is tailored for various age groups, ensuring that the content... Show more

5-7, 8-10

Grammar and Spelling Bug gives you all the tools you need to deliver the grammar and spelling requirements of the Primary English curriculum in an online toolkit which saves you time and engages pupils with interactive games.... Show more
Hundreds Of Engaging Online Time-travel Themed GamesWriting Activities To Support Children In Applying Their Grammatical Knowledge To Their CompositionFlexible Teaching And Planning Guidance, Which Fits Around Your Existing Approach To Literacy

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5-7, 8-10

Bug Club is a reading program to help you develop confident and motivated readers. It combines over 500 finely levelled books with interactive eBooks and an online reading world – so you can allocate books to individual pupils for home reading and assess their progress instantly. What's in... Show more
Online Pupil WorldReading For PleasurePhonics

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0-4, 5-7, 8-10

The One On One English EFL Curriculum is a comprehensive educational program designed to teach English as a Foreign Language to students through personalized, one-on-one instruction. This curriculum is tailored to meet the individual needs of each learner, ensuring that they receive the attention and support necessary... Show more

5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18, 19

We help schools to teach literacy in the most effective way. Our training and resources are all based on credible research and on the principles of effective continuing professional development. Teachers and schools who learn from our work do so in order to raise the achievement and... Show more
Professional Development Workshops And TrainingCurriculum ResourcesResearch And Publications

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0-4, 5-7, 8-10

WHAT IS ROLLAMA? We've built a child-centred, interactive digital playground of workouts for students to practise English, using 25 years of combined teaching experience. Teachers can closely supervise student performance and easily celebrate progress and success with real-time data tracking. WHAT PROBLEM DOES ROLLAMA SOLVE? Standard English can be particularly... Show more
HomeworkGamificationGrammar

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5-7, 8-10, 11-13

Claro Writing Helper helps you organise your written assignments, like essays, reports or dissertations. It will guide you through a linear, structured approach starting with an assignment question and a deadline, and ending with your essay in Word format!... Show more

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11-13, 14-16, 17-18

Rockerbox News provides national curriculum-aligned, non-fiction reading comprehension platforms with online products designed for primary, secondary, and special schools. Rockerbox News is proven to inspire reading confidence, a love of reading, and a thirst for knowledge in disadvantaged, EAL, SEND, and lower ability pupils. Pupils can access their personal... Show more
Non-fiction Texts For K1-3Listen Aloud FeaturesComprehension Questions

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5-7, 8-10, 11-13

Our app for parents unlocks the secrets to raising a great reader. We give parents the daily content and motivation to be sure their child is on the road to reading success. Parents who use the app say that it has changed the way they think about reading development,... Show more

0-4, 5-7, 8-10

DebateIsland Education is an innovative online platform designed to enhance students' critical thinking, public speaking, and debate skills. It provides a structured environment where students can engage in meaningful discussions on a wide range of topics. The platform is suitable for various educational levels, from middle school... Show more

19, 17-18, 14-16, 11-13

Kaligo is an innovative educational tool designed to enhance handwriting skills for students of all ages. Utilizing advanced AI technology, Kaligo provides real-time feedback and personalized learning experiences. It is tailored to meet the needs of both teachers and students, making handwriting practice engaging and effective. Kaligo... Show more

0-4, 5-7

Total Words Digital Library is an innovative online platform designed to provide students and educators with access to a vast collection of digital books and educational resources. This comprehensive library offers a diverse range of materials, including fiction, non-fiction, academic texts, and multimedia content, catering to various... Show more

5-7, 8-10, 0-4, 11-13

One on One English (1on1 English) is an innovative educational platform designed to provide personalized English language instruction. It connects students with experienced teachers for individualized lessons tailored to their specific needs and learning pace. This approach ensures that each student receives the attention and guidance necessary... Show more

0-4, 8-10, 14-16, 5-7, 11-13

Canva for Education is a versatile online design tool specifically tailored for educational purposes. It offers a wide range of templates, graphics, and tools to create engaging visual content for classrooms, presentations, and projects. With Canva for Education, teachers and students can collaborate in real-time, share designs, and... Show more
Unlimited FoldersCollaborative Editing Priority Support

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0-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18, 19+

Winner of the Education Resources Awards for Best Primary Resource and Teach Primary Awards 2020 for Best Literacy Resource Mighty Writer is an innovative and multisensory resource. It transforms children’s literacy almost overnight. We guarantee that. Teachers rate it 9.7/10. It teaches the whole process of learning to... Show more

0-4, 5-7, 8-10

The HOST provides everything a school needs to drive creativity, empower educators, reduce workload and enrich all areas of the curriculum through high-quality teaching resources, bespoke CPD opportunities, and ongoing support.... Show more
Curriculum MappingCurriculum SupportSubject Leader Toolkits

Paid

5-7, 8-10

With the Yap Books app children are now able to interact fully with books, bringing learning materials to life with their voice, triggering animations, sounds and actions as they read. This all comes with the addition of real-time reading assessment, designed to introduce parents and teachers to a... Show more

Freemium

0-4, 5-7

EDArcade is an educational game package that has been developed to allow learners all over the world to learn core and tough to teach topics through exciting games, animated lessons, and a unique game-based environment. Learners can develop their own virtual world through daily challenges based on life... Show more

5-7, 8-10

Most teachers love reading, but it can be a challenge to generate the same enthusiasm in our students. This is what Active Reading sets out to achieve. Active Reading helps learners develop the whole range of reading skills, working on a wide variety of text types based... Show more

11-13, 14-16, 17-18

Tense Buster helps students tackle 33 key grammar areas, from articles at Elementary Level through to phrasal verbs at Advanced. It has been adopted by the British Council worldwide, Ministries of Education in many countries, and by thousands of colleges, libraries and individual learners. Tense Buster moves away from... Show more

11-13, 14-16, 17-18

Study Skills Success is a comprehensive course in academic study skills. It focuses on critical thinking, skills work, independent learning and research – as well as the Academic English underpinning them. Studying in English can be a real challenge for many students. Study Skills Success can make... Show more

17-18

Quick to set up, easy to run – and it gives instant results. All it takes is 30 minutes to find a learner’s CEFR level (A1-C2), further refined with a numeric score between 0 and 120. It’s chosen by language schools, universities and multiple British Council projects.... Show more

11-13, 14-16, 17-18

Magic Spell is a fun and rewarding spelling game that positively impacts long-term memory. Schools receive a personalised teacher dashboard that enables them to set National Curriculum spelling challenges for their pupils. Through the free to download app or web browser, children access their personalised challenges and practise... Show more

5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16

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Bug Club Phonics
Wordsmith
Square Panda
Fonetti
Power English Writing
ActiveLearn Primary
Digital Theatre+
Cracking Comprehension From Rising Stars
Grammar and Spelling Bug
Bug Club
One On One English EFL Curriculum
Centre for Literacy in Primary Education
Rollama
Claro Writing Helper
Rockerbox News
Abound
DebateIsland Education
Kaligo
Total Words Digital Library
One on One English (1on1 English)
Canva for Education
Mighty Writer
The Host
Yap Books
EDArcade
Active Reading
Tense Buster
Study Skills Success
Dynamic Placement Test
Magic Spell
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