AREA 4:

FREE WORKSHEETS &
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

There are - as you'll know - many educational resources on the web. Locating the specific area you require isn't always easy. The search engines are very helpful but you can spend a lot of time trawling round looking for what you need.

We've made a start on Educational Resources with targeted links to the WWW Virtual Library. Each is listed with the URL so that you can print off a copy of this Index for your own reference later, if required - each link should take you to a specific page detailing many different resources linked to the subject you have chosen. There are also some non-WWWVL links like those to a wide range of free maths resources (all key stages) provided by Cambridge University, and links to a substantial range of free worksheets on the site here ( *all* our worksheets are free to print - see the Freeway page).

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Free and *original* resources on the site here include a complete system for teaching children to read, as well as 2000 simple addition worksheets, 2000 subtraction worksheets and a complete system for learning and practising times tables multiplication with matching worksheets for times tables division.

We've also designed a simple way for kids to learn about fractions - two "Bart and Miss Walker" stories - An Introduction to Fractions and "Addition of Fractions. Latest on fractions: The third "Bart and Miss Walker" story, "Fractions and Percentages", explaining step by step how to convert percentages to fractions; also free worksheets on percentages.

2nd December 2005: FREEWAY French - over 800 self-test English-French-English verb and
vocabulary worksheets are now on line. In progress: a free-to-print section on French grammar.

New area just opened - ANY LANGUAGE TO ENGLISH. This is a *huge* undertaking - we have created over 800 worksheets (all on line already) to match those in the "French" area, and these can be used immediately (by writing in translations and photocopying the worksheets) to teach English to children of any other nationality.

1st April 2007: Freeway RUSSIAN - over 400 self-test Russian-English-Russian vocabulary worksheets are now available. Sets of dual-language translation worksheets in more languages to follow, in due course - any help with translations much appreciated.

25th April 2007: Freeway ROMANIAN - 390+ self-test Romanian-English-Romanian verbs worksheets have now gone up on line; Romanian vocabulary worksheets to follow later in the year, hopefully :) All worksheets test English-Romanian and Romanian-English.

7th July 2007: Freeway POLISH - over 400 self-test Polish-English-Polish vocabulary worksheets have just gone up on line; all worksheets test English-Polish and Polish-English. Wall-to-Wall Polish is here - for an idea of the comprehensiveness of this resource, visit the Wall-to-Wall Polish pages for house, cars, or face, skin, make-up, to see the range of vocabulary included.

Also in progress: - Keywords for Learning - working in conjunction with Mario Becroft in New Zealand (see our Sponsors page) we've now put on line the first 148 free word search puzzles (in a planned series of around 1000) to familiarise kids with the basic keywords for subjects across the whole academic and general interest range. Keyword lists are welcomed from site visitors with specialist knowledge of any subject - click here for the index to word searches already available and new category lists. Gradual further interlinking is planned - eg the titles on the books wordsearch index page, link to online versions of these classic stories.

23rd February 2008 - now completed - Spellings, Sounds and Meanings - templates are on line for writing poems, mc lyrics, lateral thinking and making crossword puzzles, and we have now finally completed the SOUNDS DATABASE together with a fully-structured index to word sounds throughout the English language. Sample words for each sub-group have been provided, along with nearly 500 sound files to illustrate "standard English" pronunciation (all linked from the relevant sound sub-group index pages).

Our thanks to Mario, whose programming skills have enabled us to do the set-ups for worksheets for writing, spelling, dictionary use, making crossword clues and simple wordsearches for each block of 10 words in the individual sound sub-groups; all the new worksheets are now on line, linked from the SOUNDS DATABASE. Also available are "blank templates" to allow for selection of specific words from sound sub-groups, to provide further worksheets for class use or different ability levels.

Further resources now completed: a colour-coded global index to COUNTRIES across the world (with masses of info including languages spoken, country codes, dialling codes, banknotes, education, maps, capitals, and much more), and also USA STATE COUNTIES which includes an alphabetical index - and links - to every state county right across America.

As well as strictly "academic" subjects in the massive index below to free educational resources worldwide, we've also included items of general interest to kids like the huge free-to-print information resource, "Andy's Guide to Pokémon", for children using verions of the game from red, blue, yellow right up to diamond and pearl - several hundred pages built up over the last seven years or so - and "Solomon's Guide to The Magical World of Harry Potter" is now under construction, with the long-term aim of providing a unique reference source for the highly intricate books of JK Rowling. This resource is currently being significantly restructured, but the new pages won't be on line for a little while longer yet ....

You'll also find details of where to find the websites of teams like Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, zoos worldwide, books and plays online, etc., all of which are part of the WWWVL. Please note that the WWWVL has been undergoing extensive reorganization and some listings for sport and travel have changed radically in recent months.

The words in capitals are generic subject headings - if you're unable to locate your chosen area of interest on the list below, choose the nearest "field name" in capitals and check for further resources there. We've listed only a selection of options but these provide links to an infinite variety of resources.

Please advise if any links don't work! [see link further down to our "contact" page].
Links are re-validated whenever time allows.

please note that on the last link-check we were unable to access half a dozen entries - the WWWVL central
index generated the same URLs as quoted here [noted on each entry, as appropriate].

You'll also find some free classroom resources in the FOCUS area of this site,
along with a special tribute to Princess Diana and her work with landmines.

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