This site from the BBC has games and activities which are designed to help children develop their knowledge of phonics and how these are represented in written form.

Target Audience:
Key Stages 1

This website aims to help young children become confident and competent users of the Internet. It contains interactive books, encourages the use of e-mail and provides opportunities for the children's work to be published on the site, making it available for a worldwide audience!

Target Audience:
Key Stages 1

This wacky sites lets you create coded messages, compose a verse, explains the meaning of some very strange words, lets you build a dictionary and much more.
N.B. As this is an American site, expect US spelling.

Target Audience:
Key Stages 1+

This site has a wealth of online word and reading games and puzzles for pupils to have fun learning with. The site also boasts an online assessment tool - QuizLab!
N.B. As this is an American site, expect US spelling.

Target Audience:
Key Stages 1+

This site from the BBC requires Shockwave to in installed. This is a colourful comic strip adventure, set in a country village in the Second World War. The site combines exciting narrative with a series of graded literacy activities that develop phonics, spelling and story writing skills.

Target Audience:
Key Stages 1/2

This site provides a useful set of links to online word games and puzzles that would look good on any English teachers bookmarks.
N.B. As this is an American site, expect US spelling.

Target Audience:
Key Stages 1+

This BBC site is promoting poetry and encouraging people to write Poetry. With the assistance of the resident poet, John Hegley, pupils can have a go at using the Shockwave DIY poetry kit.

Target Audience:
Key Stages 3/4