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http://www.storyit.com/Starters/ststart.htm
Added:20 Aug 2015
Contributor: Aidan Monaghan
Resource type: Demonstration, Guide/Notes, Primary Source
Simple story starters for children's stories and creative writing. You can click on a starter and it will give you a printable page with the beginning of a story. Story starters are themed for different occasions such as Christmas or Mothers Day.
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English3-4
How it maps to the curriculum
- 3-4
- English
Strand: Writing
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- choose to write for himself/herself only
- decide, after conferring with the teacher and others, who the audience for a piece of writing should be
- develop his/her ability to write using information technology
- engage with the writing of one piece over a period
- give sequence to ideas and events in stories
- learn to revise and re-draft writing
- learn to use a wider range of punctuation marks with greater accuracy as part of the revision and editing process
- learn to use questions as a mechanism for expanding and developing a story
- learn to write with increasing grammatical accuracy through the process of revision and editing
- use a range of aids and strategies, including the use of approximate spelling, to improve his/her command of spelling
- write in a legible joined script with confidence and fluency
- write regularly, and gradually extend the period over which a writing effort is sustained
Suggestions for use: This could be used to prompt a child to start writing a piece of creative writing.
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/15948/15610.doc
Added:20 Aug 2015
Contributor: Lorna McWilliams
Resource type: Assessment
A self assessment activity for children to complete based on a piece of their work.
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Writing
Suggestions for use: Self assessment of sentence writing
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/02/04/towns-outside-dublin-emoji/
Added:20 Aug 2015
Contributor: darragh egan
Resource type: Assessment
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English5-6
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://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/the-spelling-bee/id625029839?mt=8
Added:19 Aug 2015
Contributor: Séamus
Resource type: Assessment, Demonstration, Audio / Video, App/Software
Fun game modes to practice spelling
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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 activities designed to increase awareness of sounds
- learn about common word endings, word families and roots of words
- learn about the sounds associated with the beginning of a word or syllable
- learn about the sounds associated with the part of a word or syllable that allows it to rhyme with another word or syllable
Suggestions for use: In the use of learning spellings from sightwords in a fun way
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
