Online Learning Resource Centre
Welcome to your Online Learning Resource Centre
In this area you can access links to free online books and get information about your reading and favourite authors. Check out reading lists [links below] for recommended reads. Don’t forget you can search up books on www.arbookfind.co.uk
Students can email LRC staff with enquiries about books and reading at librarian@thecompton.org.uk during normal school hours.
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LRC News
‘Sees a what?’ asked King Fred.
‘A marshteazle, sire. Them’s bald rat-like things what lives in the marsh. Not bad in pies if ye don’t mind the tails.’
Flapoon looked queasy.
‘So Patch sees the marshteazle,’ the shepherd continued, ‘and he gives chase. I shouts for Patch and shouts, sire, but he was too busy to come back. And then, sire, I hears a yelp. “Patch!” I cries. “Patch! What’s got ye, lad?” But Patch don’t come back, sire. And then I sees it, through the fog,’ said the shepherd in a low voice. ‘Huge, it is, with eyes like lanterns and a mouth as wide as that there throne, and its wicked teeth shining at me. And I forgets old Patch, sire, and I runs and runs and runs all the way home. And next day I sets off, sire, to come and see ye. The Ickabog ate me dog, sire, and I wants it punished!’
Reading Lists
Free Reading Resources
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is an online library with thousands of free eBooks. http://www.gutenberg.org
Interactive reading fun with BookTrust
BookTrust Home Time, launched by Waterstones Children's Laureate Cressida Cowell, is a new digital hub created specially to help entertain and support students at home. The hub is packed full of free books, videos, games, recipes, competitions, quizzes and much more. Plus, watch live readings and draw-a-longs with celebrated children's authors and illustrators. Find out more at www.booktrust.org.uk
Get free e-books from Barnet libraries
All Barnet libraries are closed at the moment but the good news is that you can still borrow e-books, audiobooks and other online resources. If you’re not a member, you can still join. Find out more here
www.barnet.gov.uk/libraries/online-resources/ebooks-and-eaudiobooks
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This learning resource site is mainly for primary school students but it does have a selection of free ebooks across most book levels that are quizible, including easier adaptations of classics.
A great place to browse for free resources with a literary theme, including talks by authors such as Cressida Cowell, Tom Palmer and Neil Gaiman.
Loads of great reading-related activities especially compiled for students staying at home. You can win prizes too!
https://caboodle.nationalbooktokens.com/round-table-books-recommend-books-by-black-authors
If you haven't heard of Caboodle, it's a website from National Book Tokens that features monthly book recommendations and competitions. (This is where we sourced the fun Hidden Books game for the LRC.)
In the current climate and with the Black Lives Matters movement at the front of our minds, Caboodle have put together a list of books by black authors. Just click the link.