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Topmarks: Maths Games

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Hit the Button

Quick fire questions on number bonds, doubling, halving, times tables, division facts and square numbers against the clock. Brilliant for improving mental maths and calculation skills, but particularly times tables either up to 10 or up to 12 times.

Subtraction Grids

Can you meet the challenge to see how many subtraction calculations you can do in two minutes? There are different levels and you can choose either one or two missing numbers to make your number sentence correct.

Mental Maths Train

Mental Maths Train is a maths game which focuses on the essential vocabulary of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. A multiple choice game which can give children confidence in the four arithmetic operations.

Caterpillar Ordering

A flexible game for ordering numbers and for number sequences. Fantastic on an interactive whiteboard. Levels range from ordering and sequencing numbers to 5 up to decimals.

Rocket Rounding

A multiple choice game involving rounding numbers to ten, a hundred and to a whole number. There are two options, one with a number line and the other more difficult level, without one.

Multiples and Factors

A multiple choice game with two game modes. In the first you need to identify the Lowest Common Multiple and in the second the Highest Common Factor. Questions increase in difficulty depending on accuracy

Shape Patterns

Shape Patterns is a shapes sequencing game. Complete the pattern of different coloured 2D shapes. There are three levels of difficulty.

2D Shape Reveal

An interactive whiteboard resource to help with the teaching and learning of the names and properties of 2D shapes.

Chinese Dragon Game

Chinese Dragon Game is an ordering and sequencing numbers game based on the Chinese New Year dragon theme.

Toy Shop Money Game

Money games where children work out which coins will buy toy shop items and where they can calculate change. Tablet-friendly and with different levels of difficulty. GDP, USD, EURO and AUD options are available.

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Searchable site of thousands of quality teaching resources, interactive resources, homework, exam and revision help. Useful for teachers, pupils and parents.

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Digital Books

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Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages. Literacy is at the core of a healthy community, so we unite with partners to enable all families to read with their young children.

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Storyline Online - Books and Literacy

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The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Daytime Emmy-nominated, Storyline Online, features celebrated actors reading children's books to inspire a love of reading in millions of children worldwide.

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Funbrain - Games, Videos and Books

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Books by David Walliams

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The Literacy Shed

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Doorway Online - Spelling and Phonics

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Doorway Online is a collection of free and highly accessible educational games that learners will find easy to use independently. Each activity has a range of accessibility and difficulty options. Originally developed with funding from Scottish Borders Council, it is now managed by the Doorway Accessible Software Trust, a Scottish charity.

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We are proud to announce Text Type, the final version of our touch typing activity. Please read these notes carefully.

We have made numerous changes to Text Type to make it more accessible:

Enhanced speech feedback echoing all keypresses and on-screen text. This makes Text Type accessible to leaners with extremely low vision, with some support.

We have increased the size of the target text to make TextType more accessible to visually impaired learners.

As far as possible, Text Type can be navigated by keypresses. These are the standard keys to navigate web browsers. TAB, Enter, the Up and Down Arrow Keys.

Doorway Single Handed Typing has been added to Text Type. This allows learners with use of a single hand to practise typing using exercises developed for their particular need. Select Left or Right from the title screen.

Teipio Testun Text Type is now a totally bilingual activity The Welsh Governement has paid for this development including the above improvements. Text Type/Teipio Testun is also available on their education website, The Hwb.

Browsers - Text Type has been tested on Microsoft Edge and Chrome. It should work in Firefox, but this is not guaranteed.
An important notice about the Speech Output
In previous versions of Text Type, the target letter (female voice) and any mistyped letter (male voice) were spoken by recorded human voices. Text Type now uses text to speech voices. The first time you use Text Type, you will need to choose the voices.

These voices are specific to the browser:

In Microsoft Edge, Sonia Online and George might be a good choice

In Chrome, the choice is between the Microsoft voices and the Google voices, female and male.

In Firefox, you can use a favourite pair of SAPI voices such as Cerevoice Heather and Stuart which are particularly clear in differentiating the names of the letters. You will have to use Firefox, which still supports SAPI voices. Firefox is not officially supported, but we have found no issues with Text Type and Firefox.

Documentation. We have produced a guide to Text Type/Teipio Testun in English, for learners in both languages.

To download this documentation, use the link below:

Two previous versions
For the moment we are keeping two previous versions on the site, TT3 phase 2 and TT3 phase 3. These are no longer supported and may not be kept here much longer.

Scheduled maintenance will be happening to the Doorway website on 16-02-2022 between 9 am and 3pm. During this time the site may not be available for around 10 to 15 minutes.

We are sorry if this causes you any inconvenience.

Doorway Online is designed to run on the following supported web browsers:

Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox (should be compatible).

If you are experiencing problems accessing our site or activities please check you are using one of the above browsers and that your browser is up-to-date.

If you are still experiencing problems please fill in an error report and we will get back to you.

Note: Internet Explorer is no longer supported by our site as it will soon be retired by Microsoft.

Important Update: There is even more up-to-date version of Text Type. Read more about this update here.

We have completed Text Type 3, the touch typing tutor for visually impaired learners that should suit anyone learning to touch type.
The new features are aimed at learners with very low vision:

Text to Speech is available for almost all on-screen text

TAB, Space and Enter can be used to access most functions

Newly recorded female and male voices are used to prompt the next keypress and warn of an incorrect keypress

Single-Handed Typing is now included in Text Type 3

We invite you to take a look at Text Type 3.

Text Type 3 phase 2, has been available on the site for over a year and will be available for three more months. It can be found here.

With the decline of Adobe Flash, soon some of our activities may not continue to function. The following activities have been renewed and will continue to work: Text Type, Speller 2, Letter & Number Formation, Cashing In and the First Phonics suite.

Fortunately, the downloadable version of our remaining activities should continue to run on Windows computers. All of our activities can be downloaded for free below!

The file is zipped and will need to be extracted before use ( how to extract/unzip a file). For installation on a school network, a request will need to be made to the network administrator.

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Doorway Activities were originally developed in Adobe Flash. This was a good way to develop such activities up to eight or ten tears or so ago. However, Apple decided not to support Flash and later tablets entered the scene. There was a solution in Puffin Browser. Our older activities still work on PCs and Android devices with Puffin Browser installed. This is no longer available on the Apple Store.

We have been able to re-code these activities to work with almost all computers and devices;

Text Type 3

Speller 2

Letter & Number Formation

Cashing In

First Phonics suite, incorporating First Sounds; First Words; First Blends; First Digraphs; More Digraphs; First Blends

First Phonics. The suite of activities now working with most devices.

These have been developed in the modern format of html5 and JavaScript and there are no restrictions to their working on browsers on PCs and Macs. They also work on tablets although on iPads they do not enter full-screen mode as they do on Android tablets. For the remaining activities, we hope to convert more.

In the meantime, if you want to access the Flash-based activities on this site; - Do not use Chrome Browser. Firefox is more friendly to Flash-based activities. If you are using a PC you can buy the Doorway Activity USB pen-drive and install the activities directly to your PC, Pendrive or Network, or even run them directly from the USB stick. It's available now at £ 10, below cost price from [email protected]. There is no copyright restriction any more.

The Doorway Activity Pack, now on USB pen-drive. All the Flash-based activities from the website should work on all Windows PCs. This includes networked PCs, but installation may require a network administrator.

We expect that you'll be able to download these activities directly from this site before too long. Watch this space .................

We are working on the final phase of Text Type 3, the touch typing tutor that can take learners from the home keys to mastery of the whole keyboard and typing sentences. This activity is designed to be as accessible as possible to visually impaired learners as possible. The final version should be accessible even to blind learners, after some initial guidance.

Learning to touch type.
There are some things that you need to know before supporting a learner on the road to touch typing

Touch Typing is just that. There should be no keeking at the keyboard. Do not look at the keyboard or your hands, all the information you need is on the screen in Doorway Touch Type.

Touch typing is a motor learning experience. This means not looking at your hands. The best way to ensure this is to cover the learner's hands with a light cloth. If you truly learn to touch type this skill will last a lifetime like riding a bike. Even learners with mild VI can be tempted to peep.

Motor learning is a very powerful tool and such skills will remin with you thoughout life. However you need to be careful. An incorrect motor habit is very hard to correct. So get it right from the start.

You need to get into a comfortable position in which the hands fall naturally onto the keyboard. The surface on which the keyboard stands must not be too high. The wrists may rest on pads if you are typing for a long time.

A Touch Typing programme is a series of lessons starting with the home keys (A S D F J K L ; ) and leading to full mastery of the keyboard. Moving on to the next exercise without sufficient mastery of the current exercise, will only lead to disappointment later on. A score of 90% or one error in every ten keypresses should be the minimum achievement before moving on. 94% or better is our recommended level of accuracy before moving on.

Learners benefit from regular practice. Little and often is best.

Accuracy should come before speed. Start slowly. If you can type at a regular pace, almost to a beat, it will help you achieve a high speed.

Doorway Text Type is a series of exercises that, followed properly, can lead to a high rate of accuracy in typing and a good rate in terms of words per minute. In handwritten exams with a lot of writing involved. Writing at a rate of 20 words per minute is an arduous task. For a typist that is a low rate of entry. A rate of 40 words per minute is entirely realistic for a sixteen-year-old typist coming up to exams.

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Doorway Online does not collect any information about users.

Text Type 3 stores the results from a user's last session on the computer it is accessed from, but we cannot see that data.

We use Google Analytics to give us usage figures for our activities. This is anonymised data that allows us to see which countries users are accessing our site from, which activities they access and allows us to check for bandwidth issues. It is not possible for us to identify a school or an individual user. We also get anonymised data from Google ads. These adverts are usually blocked in schools.

If you communicate with us by emailing [email protected], our mail server may store your email address. However, we will not use this address to communicate with you except regarding the issue you contacted us about. Your email address will be shared with no other organisation.
Email addresses will be deleted from our mail server when we no longer require them and in any case, two years after our last contact with you. You may send an email to that address asking for your emails and email address to be deleted.

A teacher in East Lothian has made up some very useful record sheets for students to keep track of their progress through the Speller levels. He has been generous in making them available to all.

They are in a compressed zip file which you may have to open using WinZip.

Thanks again to Darren Donnelly, PT Support For Learning, Musselburgh Grammar School for compiling these word lists.

The off-line version of Doorway activities for Windows PCs or laptops which had poor or no internet access has been the Doorway Activity Pack CD. This installs the activities onto your hard disc, server or pen-drive. Typically these were licensed by a school or LEA. We are no longer charging for this, beyond the costs of materials and copying.

We will be making the Doorway Activities freely downloadable. We must thank those authorities that licensed the Doorway Activity Pack CD when we started up. Those licence fees kept us going when finances were terribly tight. Now, it makes sense to make them freely available.
Coming Soon

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BBC Bitesize Language

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BBC Scotland - Learn at BBC Scotland, English and Literacy

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Bitesize for Pre-School, Primary 1 to 7 (Ages 3 to 11)

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Literacy Trust Language Resources

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Take a look at our activities to support older children build on their language, literacy and communication skills from home as they transition from primary to secondary school. We have curated games, booklists, crafts and quizzes for year 5, year 6, year 7 and year 8 children to support them with their literacy skills.

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Take a look at our activities to support older children build on their language, literacy and communication skills from home as they transition from primary to secondary school. We have curated games, booklists, crafts and quizzes for year 5, year 6, year 7 and year 8 children to support them with their literacy skills.

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Education.com Spelling Games

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Browse Spelling Games. Award winning educational materials designed to help kids succeed. Start for free now!

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Spelling Games

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Upgrade From VocabularySpellingCity to Vocabulary A-Z | Learning A-Z

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Vocabulary A-Z offers everything millions of teachers and students love about VocabularySpellingCity, plus so much more!

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Make Your Own News Report

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Make a newspaper clipping with your own headline and story. Surprise friends and colleagues, send a birthday greeting or give your next blog post a special look.

To download your newspaper, use the link at the bottom of the generated image. You can use the images as you wish ie. put them on your own website or blog. Please note, that direct linking to the newspaper clippings doesn't work; the images are deleted from the server after a short time span.

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Make a newspaper clipping with your own headline and story. Surprise friends and colleagues, send a birthday greeting or give your next blog post a special look.

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Common Lit - Comprehension

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CommonLit is a free collection of fiction and nonfiction for 3rd-12th grade classrooms. Search and filter our collection by lexile, grade, theme, genre, literary device, or common core standard.

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For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. CommonLit is a free collection of fiction and nonfiction for 3rd-12th grade classrooms. Search and filter our collection by lexile, grade, theme, genre, literary device, or common core standard.

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Reading Materials

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4th grade students are curious and full of wonderment. It's best if you put their energies to work reading appropriate leveled texts and practicing reading skills. And what better way to do that than with the activities on this page? This page has all of my reading worksheets written at the 4th grade level. I used this open source tool to determine the readability scores of my worksheets, but you should read and approve each of them yourself for quality and appropriateness before giving them to children. I encourage you to allow worksheets written for the next two grade levels as well. Reading scores vary wildly based on which algorithm one uses. The readability scores on this page are an average of those score. Still, it's sensible to open up the gates a bit to allow for a richer variety of appropriately leveled content. Click the button underneath this text to do so.

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Those 4th grade students are special little angels. Each of them, even the ones with horns... the band members. We love them. And I hope that you love the worksheets and activities on this page. If you do, leave a comment below and let me know. I am always inspired by your comments. Thanks for visiting!

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4th Grade Reading Worksheets | Fourth | Ereading Worksheets

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4th grade students are curious and full of wonderment. It's best if you put their energies to work reading appropriate leveled texts and practicing reading skills. And what better way to do that than with the activities on this page? This page has all of my reading worksheets written at the 4th grade level.

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Maths Playground

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Practice addition, multiplication, fractions and algebraic reasoning with our popular math games. Discover fun learning games kids love to play.

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Radio/Audio Maths

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The Rainbow Quiz is a set of audio quizzes for 1st Level classes, presented by BBC Scotland's Catriona Shearer.

They are designed to test numeracy skills, but as it's audio-only, it's also about listening skills. Catriona reads the questions, with some younger voices helping her out with the answers.

There are three levels - we've called them 'Cloud Ratings'. They're aimed at P2, P3 and P4 respectively (approximately).
How to use the Rainbow Quiz

1. Choose your level (below).

2. Click through - and on the next page you'll see seven quizzes, from Red (easiest) through to Violet (hardest).

3. Secret Step for teachers only, you can have a look (and download) what's in each quiz in Quiz pdfs.

4. Select a quiz, then click on Questions to play it.

5. When you're ready, click on Answers to play the answers.

Have fun! :)

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Listen up ... it's time to test your maths skills!

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The Rainbow Quiz is a set of audio quizzes for 1st Level classes, presented by BBC Scotland's Catriona Shearer. They are designed to test numeracy skills, but as it's audio-only, it's also about listening skills. Catriona reads the questions, with some younger voices helping her out with the answers.

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Maths with Carol Vorderman

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The Maths Factor : Homepage - make Carol Vorderman your child’s online maths tutor

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Unlock your child’s maths confidence with Carol Vorderman’s maths site for 4-11 year olds. Kids can watch her maths videos, play games practise and even make their own medals with the 30 Day Challenge!

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Doorway Online Maths

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Activities that explore numbers, sequences, times tables, addition and subtraction

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ICTgames Maths Games

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BBC Bitesize Maths

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Primary Homework Help | Online Games For Kids - BBC Bitesize

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Learn with Bitesize's Primary School homework help. Sign in to save your favourite topics and games

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PE with Joe

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Announcing "P.E with Joe" | Daily LIVE workouts for kids | The Body Coach

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Oti Mabuse Dance

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Welcome to my personal page! Enjoy a lot of dance lessons and other entertaining videos for the whole Family ... Let's have FUN

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Cosmic Kids Yoga

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YOGA | MINDFULNESS | RELAXATION FOR KIDS! Screentime that gives kids SUPERPOWERS! ⬇️ D O W N L O A D T H E C O S M I C K I D S A P P ⬇️ 🍏Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cosmic-kids/ 🛍️Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cosmickids 🖥️ Desktop (great for teachers!): https://app.cosmickids.com/ 📺 Roku: https://rb.gy/44r8d -------------------------------------------------------------------- Why watch on the App?

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Featuring music and moves for kids and teens, these fun workouts combine dance, martial arts and yoga in a way that children love. Suitable for children.

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Free education resources for teaching young people aged 3-16 years about where food comes from, cooking and healthy eating, and teacher training. - Food A Fact Of Life

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The resources follow a progression framework and have been developed to stimulate learning and support the curriculum and qualifications throughout the UK. All resources are designed to ensure that consistent and up-to-date messages are delivered.

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BrainPlay Poll

Have you ever found a four-leaf clover?

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How can I have fun on a rainy day?

There are lots of ways to have fun when it's raining outside. You could create some art or bake something with a parent. Or escape to a new world with a good book. You could build your own cozy reading fort, turn out the lights, and read with a flashlight. Or you could try balloon tennis. Attach a paper plate to a paint stick or ruler to make your tennis racket. Blow up a balloon and let the games begin!

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The place for children of all ages to play games and discover new jokes, surveys, answers to science questions, and fun crafts and recipes from Highlights.

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Rainforest Stories

In this virtual rainforest visit you will learn about community forestry operations in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve.... View more

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These resources supplement our free pre-kindergarten through eighth grade curricula.

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Esta guía educativa gratuita ayudara a sus estudiantes a explorar el manejo sostenible de los bosques y su papel en el desarrollo comunitario, usando los ecosistemas únicos de la Península Yucatán,... View more

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This free curriculum will help your students understand the role of sustainable tourism in supporting local communities and conserving natural resources, using the unique ecosystems of Quintana Roo,... View more

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Allen, Nancy Nelly. On the Banks of the Amazon / En las Orillas del Amazonas (bilingual). Raven Tree Press, Illinois: 2004. (Ages 4-8) Barner, Bob. Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! Chronicle Books, LLC, San Francisco: 1999. (Ages 2-6) Bash, Barbara. Urban Roosts: Where Birds Nest in the City. Little, Brown and Company, New York: 1990. (Ages 7-12) Behler, John L., & Deborah [...]

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The National Crime Agency's CEOP Education team aim to help protect children and young people from online child sexual abuse.

We do this through our education programme, providing training, resources and information to professionals working with children, young people and their families.

I am:

Respecting me, you, us: building healthy relationships and creating positive cultures is a CEOP Education resource for 12 -14 year olds developed in association with clinical psychologist, Dr. Elly Hanson.

Under 18 and worried about online sexual abuse?
To report, click to visit the CEOP Safety Centre.

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If you want to get better at drawing, there's a simple way to do so. Just start drawing! You're only going to improve with many hours of putting pen or pencil to paper. And in all this time spent sketching, one of the most important things you can do is make mistakes. It's in these blunders that you truly understand how things look and ways to fix them. In the process, you develop your own visual language and sketch in a style that's unique to your hand.

Finding the motivation and inspiration to draw on a regular basis can be difficult. If this is something you struggle with, know that there are many other artists who do, too. To help keep you inspired (and accountable) in making art, there are many drawing challenges in which you can participate. Some require you to sketch daily, while others are more open-ended and can be done at your own pace. Regardless of what you choose, be sure to look to others for inspiration and encouragement-and know that you too can successfully complete the challenge at hand.

Here are five drawing challenges that'll spark your creativity.

A drawing challenge is a great way to boost your sketching skills. Here are five challenges to try!

Draw It Again

This is a drawing challenge that'll make you feel good about how far your skills have come. Find an artwork from years ago (the earlier, the better) and redraw it using what you've learned since then. You'll be astonished at the changes you've made and the confidence you've developed since you created that piece. (For even more inspiration, check out more examples of the draw it again challenge.)

Inktober

Inktober is one of the most popular drawing challenges around. Every October, Inktober creator and illustrator Jake Parker releases a prompt list that corresponds to each day of the month. While many people work off those 31 suggestions, Parker stresses that it's not necessary to do so. "What ever you decide," he says, "just be consistent with it." If you do participate, make sure you tag your work with #inktober!

Doodle Addicts

Doodle Addicts is a platform that celebrates "our incessant need to draw, sketch, and doodle with anything and everything." They host drawing challenges with specific themes and art prompts intended to get you out of your comfort zone. When you're done, share your creation with their community and enter for your chance to win prizes.

A Drawing a Day by Sketchbook Skool

Coming up with drawing ideas can be one of the hardest parts of the creative process. To ensure you won't miss a day of sketching, the e-learning website Sketchbook Skool has posted daily drawing prompts for every day of the year. Visit their Pinterest to find the current month, or use some of their past ideas! Either way, you'll be sketching-which is the goal of this challenge.

The Sketchbook Project

The Sketchbook Project doesn't bill themselves as a drawing challenge, but as a global art project that anyone can participate in. You simply order a sketchbook, fill it up, and send it back to them. You'll then be part of the world's largest artists sketchbook collections.

There are no official guidelines for what goes in your sketchbook, but there are a couple rules-one of them being that you can't send back a blank book!

Related Articles:
Best Drawing Pencils for Professionals and Beginners Who Love to Sketch Every Page of This Artist's Sketchbook is an Elegant Work of Art 10+ YouTube Channels to Learn How to Draw for Free 25+ Imaginative Sketching Prompts to Help You Beat Creative Block

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5 Fun Drawing Challenges That'll Help You Improve Your Sketching Skills

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Do you want to improve your sketching? A drawing challenge is a great way to build your skills. Here are five drawing challenges we recommend.

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Art For Kids Hub - Art Lessons - How To Draw For Kids

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Vocals Archives - Little Kids Rock Jam Zone

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All the latest BBC Bitesize content about year 4 and p5 lessons.

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NASA encourages you to visit NASA Kids' Club and use its games and activities to inspire the next generation.

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Parents!! Home schooling driving you mad?! Let me take one lesson off your hands! Curriculum based and most importantly, fun. There's no need for instruments or to feel intimidated. Any age, any ability welcome. Music helps to look after our children's minds and souls, especially at a time when they need it most plus, we may even find the next Elton or mini Mozart!

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Hour of Code

This year, we're taking Hour of Code to new heights by offering coding opportunities that encompass both artificial intelligence (AI) and non-AI components.

Want to keep learning? Go beyond an hour

Teachers: Host an hour or read the How-To Guide

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Use computer science to explore and learn about AI!

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Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

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More advanced programming projects

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Join the Raspberry Pi Foundation team as we code and create projects at home. Every Monday we'll share a theme that will inspire you to have fun, solve problems, and express yourselves creatively with technology. Code along with us or create something on your own. Whatever you make, we want to see it!
Ready to get started? This week we invite you to make connections!
Parents, this guide will help you get your kids started with Digital Making at Home and other learn-at-home offerings from the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

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Join the Raspberry Pi Foundation team as we code and create projects at home. Every Monday we'll share a theme that will inspire you to have fun, solve problems, and express yourselves creatively with technology. Code along with us or create something on your own. Whatever you make, we want to see it!

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Outdoor learning ideas to do at home

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Nature Activities for Kids to Do at Home: Part Six - Woodland Trust

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Keep your kids busy and active with our range of activities for kids to do at home, including leaf painting, colour bingo, making a nature bracelet and more.

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Learning to read with phonics

If you live in England, your child will learn to read using phonics. Their school is very likely to use either the Letters and Sounds phonics framework or the Read Write Inc. programme. Check with your school if you're not sure which one they use.

Using Letters and Sounds?

If your child is using Letters and Sounds, you can find books suitable for them by clicking on the 'Levels' menu below and using the 'Letters and Sounds Phase' filter to select the right Phase. Bear in mind the following:

If you don't know your child's Phase, you can check with your school. As a guide, most Reception children will be on Phases 1-4 and most Year 1 children will be on Phases 4-5. Beyond Phase 5, your child will be able to decode most books.

In Letters and Sounds, there are 'sets' within the Phases - so your child might not know all the sounds in every book within their Phase.

Some series contain occasional 'tricky words' that your child can't decode using phonics. Use the inside front cover notes to teach your child these words before they start the book.

Find out more about Letters and Sounds >

Using Read Write Inc. Phonics?
If your child is being taught to read using the Read Write Inc. programme, you can find books suitable for them by clicking on the 'Levels' menu below and using the 'Read Write Inc.' filter to select the right level.

We recommend children read each eBook three times, as they would at school: once to read the words correctly, a second time with more fluency, and a third time in a 'storyteller voice' that shows their understanding of the story.

Find more support and resources for Read Write Inc. in our parents' guide to Read Write Inc. >

Looking for printed books for phonics practice at home?

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Free eBook library | Oxford Owl from Oxford University Press

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Learning to read with phonics If you live in England, your child will learn to read using phonics. Their school is very likely to use either the Letters and Sounds phonics framework or the Read Write Inc. programme. Check with your school if you're not sure which one they use.

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Find amazing facts about animals, science, history and geography, along with fun competitions, games and more. Visit National Geographic Kids today!

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If you're looking for some fun science experiments for kids then you've come to the right place. Check out our free experiments section, full of fascinating hands-on experiments that are a great way to enjoy the world of science.

Learn interesting science and technology facts by experimenting with different materials that react in surprising ways. You'll find many experiments can be done using simple ingredients found around the house (with adult supervision of course). Basic materials can help you perform experiments that are simple, safe and perfect for kids. Enjoy our fun science experiments, make cool projects, show friends & family what you've discovered and most importantly, have fun!

Raw or Boiled Egg?

Can't tell if your egg is hard boiled or raw? Find out a sneaky way to know for sure with this simple experiment.

Use black light to make glowing water and find out exactly how it works with this fun science experiment for kids.

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Fun Science Experiments for Kids - Cool Projects & Easy Ideas for Children

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If you're looking for some fun science experiments for kids then you've come to the right place. Check out our free experiments section, full of fascinating hands-on experiments that are a great way to enjoy the world of science. Learn interesting science and technology facts by experimenting with different materials that react in surprising ways.

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Explore nature and get closer to wildlife and the outside world.

We have loads of great ideas and resources to help kids and families connect with nature, from simple activities they can do at home or at school, to wild clubs, fun articles and family-friendly reserves and events.

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Nature Activities for Kids | Fun & Learning - The RSPB

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We have loads of great ideas and resources to help kids and families connect with nature, from simple activities they can do at home or at school, to wild clubs, fun articles and family-friendly reserves and events.

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Experiments you should try at home featuring topics from the Bill Nye The Science Guy show.

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Glasgow Science Centre's mission is to promote science and technology through thought-provoking, fun and exciting experiences, that inspire all to explore an...

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Ask your parent to make you an account. It is free.

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Duolingo is the world's most popular way to learn a language. It's 100% free, fun and science-based. Practice online on duolingo.com or on the apps!

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Designed by teachers and learning experts, Espresso is your go-to for powerful primary teaching resources covering core and foundation subjects in EYFS, KS1 and KS2

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CPD Training | Free maths resources | White Rose Maths

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