Links to Useful SItes

SBC Library and Information Services have excellent online resources which you can access if you are a member of the library. There are reference resources such as dictionaries and encyclopaedias. Have a look around the site!

http://www.scotborders.gov.uk/life/educationandlearning/libraries/commun...

Lists to browse through when you’re looking for something to read:

www.highlandschools-virtualib.org.uk/reading_webs.htm
great web-site created by Highland Council. Useful for all reading ages. A good place to start.

www.highlandschools-virtualib.org.uk/powereaders/
for lower secondary.

www.highlandschools-virtualib.org.uk/keep_reading/
for middle secondary and Intermediates 1 and 2.

www.highlandschools-virtualib.org.uk/hsenglish/
for Higher and Advanced Higher

www.cool-reads.co.uk/
books for 10 - 15 year old readers by 10 -15 year old reviewers.

www.mrsmad.com/
all the best books for children and young adults, parents, teachers and librarians, with reviews and ratings, games, stories and jokes.

www.kidsreads.com

www.youngpicador.com
For teenagers

Author sites

www.annefine.co.uk/

www.nicolamorgan.co.uk/

www.contemporarywriters.com/
This is a searchable database which contains up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers - biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, prizes and photographs.

www.ukchildrensbooks.co.uk/

www.zamorian.com
www.spinebreakers.co.uk/
Any story-surfing, web-exploring, word-loving, day dreaming, reader/writer/artist/thinker aged 13-18

www.4ureaders.net/welcomev2/

Book organisations

www.scottishbooktrust.com/

www.unfortunateevents.com/
Links to on-line games which complement children's books series.

www.scran.ac.uk/
a  very useful learning resource with 336,500 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media. For the username and password ask the LRC Staff.

Newspapers

www.thescotsman.co.uk/

www.telegraph.co.uk/

www.borderstoday.co.uk/
Southern Reporter and other Borders titles.

www.peeblesshirenews.com/

www.onlinenewspapers.com/
(includes foreign language newspapers)

Revision

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/bitesize/
English

http://www.spl.org.uk/
Scottish Poetry Library.

http://www.spl.org.uk/youngpeople/
Young Scottish Poetry Library - with over 20 000 books of poetry and on poets, 50 poetry journals, a press archive and an audio section, a visit to the library is a must if you are studying poetry at school.

www.pushkinprizes.net/
win a creative writing competition

www.poetryarchive.org

Some other websites which may be of interest:

www.bbc.co.uk/scotlandshistory

http://www.goethe.de/glasgow/
(Info on German courses)

http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/gla/lhr/en5648293v.htm
Quiz Postcard - play with words
 
http://thinkgerman.org.uk/home
Think German!