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Smories is a website with short videos of children reading original stories for kids. There are 50 new Smories added every month. Writers are encouraged to submit their original children's stories to be featured on the website. The stories are advertised as being suitable for children aged three to eight although there are many stories that would also appeal to children older than eight. This site offers a great way to model reading with expression and can also be used as a comprehension activity. Encourage the students to picture the story in their mind as they listen. Listening to Smories is also a good way to revise the features of a narrative.

This programme consists of nine short drama sequences that can be used in the classroom to stimulate creative writing amongst primary pupils. Each story start presents a different scenario and characters which are open to interpretation by pupils and teachers. Each individual story start ends on a cliff-hanger, encouraging pupils to continue the story from this point.

Use the information in the "story plant" to create the beginning to a story. Students can print off their story to complete themselves.

Big Books and Online Stories

This programe features seven video clips that are designed for teachers to use on their interactive whiteboard when teaching literacy. Suitable for Years 1 - 7, each of the short clips sets up an environment or a narrative that can be used to fire the children's imagination. An alluring jewellery shop, a ghostly graveyard and a tunnel with a warning are just three of exciting story starts included.

Make a movie about the Zimmer twins. You can follow on from a story starter or start one of your own from scratch.

If you were on a boat that became lost at sea what would happen to you? Would anyone come to your aid? \nGreat BTN story on Asylum seekers and who is allowed into Australian waters. Rules and laws of the sea.

Really cute website where some actors read stories on video.

a Flash based website with interactive manipulatives that students and teachers can use to introduce or reinforce maths concepts. It is suitable for students from Kindergarten to Year Eight. This site is very simple to use (mostly drag and drop) and requires very little preparation. You simply choose a background from the collection of Game Boards, Story Boards or Work Mats. Work Mat options include place value mats, tens frames, graph paper, algebra tiles, in and out equation tables, blank calendars, number lines and number charts.

A variety of simple stories that are read aloud . Children can follow the words and personalise the characters.

Access videos of current and past episodes of Behind the news

An interactive activity about settling in Ainslie. Key Learning Objectives: Students investigate the stories of individuals and groups of people who moved to Australia. Students describe a range of effects that migration has on people. Students identify strategies migrants use to maintain links with the past. Educational Value: Describes how migrants have adapted to life in Australia and maintained links with their original culture. Illustrates artefacts associated with migrants from a range of countries. Includes graphics contrasting architectural styles and interior decorations between 1838 and 2003. Encourages students to explore, synthesise and interpret information from a range of sources. Illustrates a range of experiences and attitudes using fictional characters. Provides a printable worksheet with key graphics and the student's responses to questions about the migrants' experiences.

Students use picture graphs to describe the emotional impact of a fiction text.

Kid friendly information about disasters. You can choose a disaster and follow the characters story as they experience it.

Great website! Has great stuff for kids with videos and information. Animals and environment

A range of interactive Literacy games and activities to improve English Skills (focusing on writing genres: fairytales, procedural text, letters, recounts, similies, narratives, dialogues, plays, poetry, newspapers, proverbs)

Great child related, child language current affairs program. Short, interesting and detailed news reports. Great for note taking and reporting composing.

Explains who asylum seekers are and the issues surrounding their arrival in Australia