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http://www.obrien.ie/assets/4230/native/GuideCaveOfSecrets.pdf
Added:6 Sep 2015
Contributor: H O Connell
Resource type: Guide/Notes, Reference
Download a six page PDF file containing a Teaching Guide to enhance the teaching of the novel "Cave of Secrets". This novel tells of pirates and crooked rulers which make seventeenth-century Ireland a dangerous place. The Guidelines contain summaries, discussion points and suggestions for excellent activities.
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English5-6
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- English
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- appreciate issues in fiction
- browse through, handle, discuss, recommend and select books for independent reading
- relate personal experience to the ideas and emotions conveyed in the text
- respond to poetry and fiction through discussion, writing, drama, the visual arts and dance
Suggestions for use: These Teacher Guidelines can enhance the teaching of the novel "Cave of Secrets". It includes summaries, discussion ideas along with excellent suggested activities. Plenty of ideas to choose from.
http://www.obrien.ie/assets/3188/native/GuideGunsofEaster.pdf
Added:6 Sep 2015
Contributor: H O Connell
Resource type: Guide/Notes, Reference
Download a four page PDF teaching guidelines to enhance the teaching of the novel "The Guns of Easter" This novel is an account of the 1916 Easter Rising seen through the eyes of a twelve year old boy. This PDF document includes ideas for preliminary work, summaries, discussion ideas along with excellent suggested activities.
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English5-6
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- English
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- appreciate issues in fiction
- relate personal experience to the ideas and emotions conveyed in the text
- respond to poetry and fiction through discussion, writing, drama, the visual arts and dance
Suggestions for use: The downloaded PDF document can be used to enhance the teaching of the novel "The Guns of Easter". It includes ideas for preliminary work, summaries, discussion points along with many excellent activities.
http://www.obrien.ie/assets/3186/native/RedHughTeachingGuide.pdf
Added:6 Sep 2015
Contributor: H O Connell
Resource type: Guide/Notes, Reference
These Teacher Guidelines can enhance the teaching of the novel "Red Hugh, The Kidnap of Hugh O'Donnell". This novel is set in Ireland in 1587 at the time of Elizabeth I of England. Guidelines includes summaries, discussion ideas along with excellent suggested activities. Plenty of ideas to choose from.
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English5-6
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- English
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- appreciate issues in fiction
- relate personal experience to the ideas and emotions conveyed in the text
- respond to poetry and fiction through discussion, writing, drama, the visual arts and dance
Suggestions for use: These Teacher Guidelines can enhance the teaching of the novel " Red Hugh, The Kidnap of Hugh O' Donnell" It includes summaries, discussion ideas along with excellent suggested activities. Plenty of ideas to choose from.
http://www.obrien.ie/assets/4772/native/GuideSOSLusitania.pdf
Added:31 Aug 2015
Contributor: H O Connell
Resource type:
Click under Resources to download a Teaching Guide to enhance the teaching of the historical fictional Novel : SOS Lusitania by Kevin Kiely. This PDF document includes summaries, discussion ideas, along with excellent suggested activities. There are great ideas for class projects also.
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English5-6
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- English
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- appreciate issues in fiction
- browse through, handle, discuss, recommend and select books for independent reading
- continue to share response to an ever-increasing variety of texts with the wider community of readers
- develop individuality as a reader by experiencing success and the enhancement of self-esteem through reading
- examine similarities and differences in various types of text
- listen to books or extracts from books and poetry read aloud or presented on tape, radio or television
- relate personal experience to the ideas and emotions conveyed in the text
- respond to poetry and fiction through discussion, writing, drama, the visual arts and dance
Suggestions for use: This teaching guide for teachers will enhance the teaching of the historical fictional novel SOS Lusitania. Download the five page PDF under resources.
http://www.readerstheater.com/freemini/3goats-mini.pdf
Added:22 Aug 2015
Contributor: Lavina Higgins
Resource type: Primary Source
Free sample Readers Theatre
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Drama1-2
English1-2
http://waze.net/oea/crosswords/apartment_crossword.html
Added:21 Aug 2015
Contributor: Alison ODonnell
Resource type: Assessment, Game, Other
Not your ordinary type of crossword!
A communicative crossword requires two students to complete it. Each person is given the same crossword puzzle but with only half of the answers (e.g. Student A has the down words and the Student B has the across).
Split the class into As and Bs and distribute the crosswords accordingly - one to each student.
The children sit in way so that they cannot see each others crossword.
The pupils take turns to describeeach of the answers on their crossword without saying the word itself.
This activity can be adapted to any topic by using a website such as http://www.puzzle-maker.com/crossword to create crosswords.
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A communicative crossword requires two students to complete it. Each person is given the same crossword puzzle but with only half of the answers (e.g. Student A has the down words and the Student B has the across).
Split the class into As and Bs and distribute the crosswords accordingly - one to each student.
The children sit in way so that they cannot see each others crossword.
The pupils take turns to describeeach of the answers on their crossword without saying the word itself.
This activity can be adapted to any topic by using a website such as http://www.puzzle-maker.com/crossword to create crosswords.
English5-6
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- English
Strand: Oral Language
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- acquire the ability to give detailed instructions and directions
- discuss the meaning, effect and diversity of local words and expressions
- give and take turns in an environment where tolerance for the views of others is fostered
- understand the functions and know the names of the parts of speech
http://www.readingeggs.coom
Added:21 Aug 2015
Contributor: Deborah Breen
Resource type: Lesson Plan
This website makes learning to read interesting and engaging for children. My senior infant children love the games, songs, golden eggs and other rewards which really motivates them to keep exploring and reading. It is suitable from 4 to 7 year olds. There are 120 lessons included/.
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Englishin
How it maps to the curriculum
- in
- English
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- build up a sight vocabulary of common words from personal experience, from experience of environmental print, and from books read
- encounter early reading through collaborative reading of large-format books and language-experience material
- experience the reading process being modelled
- learn to isolate beginning and final sounds in written words
- learn to isolate the beginning sound of a word or syllable
- learn to isolate the part of a word or a syllable which allows it to rhyme with another word or syllable
- use knowledge of word order, illustration, context and initial letters to identify unknown words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?vhGzE7umCbn8
Added:21 Aug 2015
Contributor: Linda O Donoghue
Resource type: Audio / Video
Popular nursery rhymes in a syncopated, funky style.
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Englishin
How it maps to the curriculum
- in
- English
Strand: Oral Language
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- use language to perform common social functions
Suggestions for use: Watch video, enjoy, repeat rhyme with video, sing/say rhyme without video, perform rhyme individually.
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/15962/15624.wmv
Added:21 Aug 2015
Contributor: Martha Duffy
Resource type: Audio / Video
This is a rap song downloaded from you tube to help children understand the various parts of speech
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English3-45-6
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Writing
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- learn to write with increasing grammatical accuracy through the process of revision and editing
Strand: Writing
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- observe the conventions of grammar, punctuation and spelling in his/her writing
http://tools.atozteacherstuff.com/printable-word-shapes-worksheets/
Added:21 Aug 2015
Contributor: Bernadette OSullivan
Resource type: Tool, Secondary Source
website which allows teachers to create spelling worksheets based on the shape of the words
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: great for use with children who have difficulty learning spellings phonetically. Can be used for children with Dyslexia to assist in their learning of spellings.
