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If you want your students to use the internet for research, but find that sites such as Wikipedia can overwhelm students and contain too much information - then you might like to take a look at the Simple English Wikipedia. The Simple English Wikipedia uses simple English words and grammar to explain topics.  There are 70,000 articles on the site, a fraction of the 3 million articles that are on the main wikipedia page, but enough for most students. Check before you send kids towards the site that it contains the topics you want them to research. If it doesn't you could always create a page and add the information yourself - or make it a goal for the research project to write a page!

An excellent tool for ESL students. When putting in a word or phrase into the box, and pressing submit, it pronounces the word in english. Can also translate that word to any of 40+ languages

PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture. Fantastic for secondary English

English- Interactive whiteboard links ES1-stage 3. Some fantastic ideas and templates

This is a great series that students will love which breaks history down into nice little bitse sized chunks you can flesh out in the classroom.  I really hope you enjoy going through this with your students.  A word of warning is that some of the language and content may not be totally appropriate to younger students.

VocabularySpellingCity provides the following sets of correlations to standards: U.S. Standards by State Common Core Standards for each States' Implementation Australian Standards by State Canadian Standards by Province English National Curriculum Standards

great extension english blog used to mark and share student work

great clips in plain english

Awesome site for lower-middle years English literacy and text-types. Structured, downloadable etc

A good Explanation of Augmented Reality, one of the Horizon Reports focuses. 

I was surprised. I learned things from this article. It can be projected in class to teach students also.

This site too is linked to Brainpop jr, but it is for older students. Again excellent site (but costs) click on the 'free stuff' icon to see what you can use for free. Very suitable for Stage 2 to Stage 3, perhaps even Stage 4

This site is great , but unfort to access all content there is an acct fee. However, there is lots of great free stuff on it. Just click on the free stuff link.

Excellent sounding text to speech online tool. Closed to new registration at the moment but well worth keeping an eye on.

A collections of learning objects designed to engage students in learning about blood.

Great ideas to help students with reading novels or writing book reviews or getting interested in reading

Great energy game for Year 6 students. 

Great visual thesaurus and dictionary

Create your own online graphic novels

A pretty cool site for creative writing. Puts a word on the screen and allows you to write for one minute. You can email the results. 

An interesting writing tool, no sign up. When finished read others writing on the same word. "simple. you'll see one word at the top of the following screen. you have sixty seconds to write about it."