ICT 4 ELT Portals

Harry Potter Teaching Resources

Compiled and annotated by
Jitka Spalová,
Obchodní akademie Pelhřimov.

This website contains links to Harry Potter teaching resources.

• Hogwarts Smart Web

  http://www.hogwarts.esmartweb.com/pronunciations.htm

  An interesting web page full of activities, games concerning the Hogwarts Houses, Quidditch etc. Discussion over the topic "Banning Harry Potter?"

• Scholastic Homepage

  http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/

  Harry Potter Scholastic Homepage. Gives the reviews of all the books printed, pronunciation of book characters, discussion chamber, Wizard Challenge game or nice screensavers for your PC!

• HP Lesson Plans

  http://edpsych.ed.sc.edu/caw/harrypotter/lesson1.html

  Harry Potter Lesson Plans.

• Owl Mail

  http://www.surfnetkids.com/postcards/harrypotter-pc.htm

  Send a personal e-mail based on HP topic to your friend.

• A day in the Life of Harry Potter

  http://its.guilford.k12.nc.us/webquests/harry/harry.htm

  This is an interesting WebQuest offering students to have a day similar that Harry Potter has. Includes working with computers, in the classroom.

• Harry Potter Games

  http://harrypotterfans.com/links/On_this_site/Games/

  This web page offers your students some fun with many games, e.g. The Spellmaker, Goblet of Fire Characters Wordsearch, the Sorting Hat etc.

  The games require Web access and Java.

• Harry Potter Haiku

  http://www.factmonster.com/spot/haikuharry.html

  This page includes instructions for writing haiku, model poems, and an invitation for students to submit their own creative writings.

• A to Z Teacher Stuff

  http://atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Harry_Potter/

  A very good web page not only for HP fans offers much more… Harry Potter A to Z Teacher Stuff Web page offers many links to variety of activities, mentions level of students, rating and votes for these sites.

• Harry Potter Online Quiz

  http://www.fuuko.com/hpquiz.html

  Are you obsessed with Harry Potter? I doesn`t matter whether YES or NO, you can practice questions online with your students.

• Reading Activity: Harry Potter Actress

  http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/happyearth/moose/websearch2/

  This OUP activity makes students print the questions, then click on web link. There is a biography of Emma Watson (Hermione in HP series). Their task is to answer the questions. Later students can e-mail the page to their friends.