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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dex...ill/id420464455?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
Added:21 Aug 2015
Contributor: Orla Davey
Resource type: App/Software
To improve fine motor skills, spatial reasoning and correct letter formation.
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: Therapeutic exercises to improve fine motor skillS in children with SEN.
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/boo...or-for-ipad-create/id442378070?mt=8
Added:20 Aug 2015
Contributor: Aisling Brennan
Resource type: Audio / Video, Presentation, Primary Source
Allow children create their own books and stories.
* Add text, choosing from over 50 fonts
* Add photos and images from your iPad's photo library, from the web, or use the iPad's Camera
* Resize, rotate and position content as you like with guidelines and snap positioning
* Add video and music, and even record your voice
* Use the pen tool to draw and annotate your book
* Choose from portrait, landscape or square book sizes
* A quick tap and you're reading your book in iBooks!
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* Add text, choosing from over 50 fonts
* Add photos and images from your iPad's photo library, from the web, or use the iPad's Camera
* Resize, rotate and position content as you like with guidelines and snap positioning
* Add video and music, and even record your voice
* Use the pen tool to draw and annotate your book
* Choose from portrait, landscape or square book sizes
* A quick tap and you're reading your book in iBooks!
English3-4
How it maps to the curriculum
- 3-4
- English
Strand: Writing
Strand unit: Developing Cognitive Ability through Language
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- write a sentence and elaborate on it by adding one or more ideas to it
- write about ideas encountered in other areas of the curriculum
- write about why he/she finds an idea attractive
- write down directions on how to perform a particular process
- write in a variety of genres with greater sophistication
http://www.magickeys.com/books
Added:20 Aug 2015
Contributor: SMcG
Resource type: Primary Source
Online books and Audio books
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- engage in personal reading
- read aloud to share a text with an audience
https://www.literacyshed.com/the-story-starter-shed.html
Added:18 Aug 2015
Contributor: Máire Carey
Resource type: Tool, Other, Primary Source
A list of sentences to begin any story
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English5-6
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- English
Strand: Writing
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- engage in the writing of one piece over a period
- experience varied and consistent oral language activity as part of the pre-writing process
- explore the possibilities of syntax and sentence structure in reading and writing
- help others with editing their writing
- observe the conventions of grammar, punctuation and spelling in his/her writing
- observe the teacher improving writing
- use dictionaries and thesauruses to extend and develop vocabulary and spelling
- write fluently and relevantly in other areas of the curriculum
- write for a sustained length of time
Suggestions for use: creative writing
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/15740/15398.docx
Added:18 Aug 2015
Contributor: Barry Moyles
Resource type: Other
A word document that contains three simple books. It includes HF words and some encourages phonic development.
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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
- engage in shared reading activities
- experience the reading process being modelled
Suggestions for use: Early reading material for junior infants or learning support pupils from senior Infants or 1st class.
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/iwr...s-handwriting-game/id307025309?mt=8
Added:18 Aug 2015
Contributor: Lisa Brady
Resource type: App/Software
iwritewords teaches children handwriting skills while playing a fun and entertaining game
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Englishin
How it maps to the curriculum
- in
- English
Strand: Writing
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- learn to form and name individual letters using various materials
- write and draw
Suggestions for use: organise 4 literary stations, one of which has ipads - allow children to explore this handwriting game through the app at this station
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/15738/15396.docx
Added:18 Aug 2015
Contributor: Cathy ODwyer
Resource type: Other
A pack I made up to accompany Charlotte's Web by E.B.White
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English3-4
How it maps to the curriculum
- 3-4
- English
Strand: Reading
Suggestions for use: Use it to accompany Charlotte's Web.
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/15733/15391.doc
Added:18 Aug 2015
Contributor: Aoife Murphy
Resource type: Other
Picture cards to help a child who doesn't speak English to communicate
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Englishin
How it maps to the curriculum
- in
- English
Suggestions for use: Use to help a child who doesn't speak English or is non verbal to communicate.
http://www.teachingappz.co.uk/
Added:19 Aug 2015
Contributor: Fiona OBrien
Resource type: App/Software
Teaching Appz is a place to find apps for different mobile devices and other platforms (iOS, Android, Playbook and web) that can be used in the classroom. All apps are organised into subject areas, making them easy for teachers to browse through and each app has background information, as well as ideas for using them with children.
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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:
- choose appropriate words to name and describe things and events
- experiment with descriptive words to add elaborative detail
- use language to perform common social functions
http://www.teachingappz.co.uk/listing/eggy-phonics/
Added:19 Aug 2015
Contributor: Fiona OBrien
Resource type: Game, App/Software
Phonics is an essential part of learning to read and Eggy Phonics 1 makes phonics fun and rewarding. This app focuses on the first 100 short-vowel words, such as cat, dog and bus.
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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:
- choose appropriate words to name and describe things and events
- experiment with descriptive words to add elaborative detail
Suggestions for use: Let children use the app independently to review their phonics skills.
Give children opportunities to see, head, read, spell and write each word.
Play the reward game to to practise their skills.
