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Added:18 Aug 2015
Contributor: sarah Hayes
Resource type: Audio / Video, Textbook
Online books - 39 colourful books - available for Senior Infant - 2nd class pupils to 1) Read by oneself.
2)Let reader read to pupil. 3) To Auto play - with high lighted colour code
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2)Let reader read to pupil. 3) To Auto play - with high lighted colour code
English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Reading
Strand unit: Developing Cognitive Ability through Language
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- adopt an active approach to a text by posing his/her own questions
- give recommendations to and receive recommendations from the wider community of readers on the choice of reading material
Suggestions for use: Aids reading progression and develops pupils competence and fosters a love of reading.
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/15671/15316.docx
Added:18 Aug 2015
Contributor: gemma healy
Resource type: Assessment, Game
After reading the Twits by Roald Dahl, children can take this activity!
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English3-4
How it maps to the curriculum
- 3-4
- English
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- develop basic information retrieval skills
- experience different types of text
https://plasq.com/apps/comiclife/ios/
Added:18 Aug 2015
Contributor: Caroline Keane
Resource type:
use on ipad to create story with stories in comic style - integrate with art
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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 about an idea to explain it to someone else
- write about ideas encountered in other areas of the curriculum
- write in a variety of genres with greater sophistication
Suggestions for use: SEN children who find story writing difficult
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vis...ntion-therapy-lite/id554546572?mt=8
Added:18 Aug 2015
Contributor: Judy Quinn
Resource type: Game
This app can be used for children with dyslexia to help discriminate letters and symbols. Also helps with concentration, attention and focus.
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English3-4
http://www.mrsperkins.com
Added:18 Aug 2015
Contributor: Alice Watson
Resource type: Assessment, Game, Tool, Primary Source
This website is an excellent resource for helping young children from Junior Infants up to Second Class to learn how to read. It provide teachers with activities, worksheets, games, test forms and rewards for teaching the Dolch Words
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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
- find information and share it with others
- perform simple information retrieval tasks
Suggestions for use: This website can be used for pre-reading activities where the teacher can elicit what words the children already know and teach them a new word or several words every week and they can play a game using these words. It can also be used for post reading activities where the teacher gives the children a written activity based on the words they have learned that week, followed by an assessment of the words taught.
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/pri...canning-ocr-speech/id366791896?mt=8
Added:18 Aug 2015
Contributor: Aileen Brennan
Resource type: Tool, App/Software
Prizmo can be used in a educational setting to scan and read text aloud. One can choose from 35 voices id 10 different languages.
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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:
- engage with books in group or in whole-class settings
- read to satisfy personal interests
Suggestions for use: Can be used to assist children with specific language difficulties to engage with printed material.
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/15701/15354.doc
Added:18 Aug 2015
Contributor: Maureen Courtney
Resource type: Lesson Plan
Lesson based on the story of The Three Little Pigs. Children use iPads during the lesson
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Englishin
How it maps to the curriculum
- in
- English
Strand: Reading
Strand unit: Developing Cognitive Ability through Language
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- analyse and interpret characters, situations, events and sequences presented pictorially
- recall and talk about significant events and details in stories
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/eas...bee/id841143412?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
Added:18 Aug 2015
Contributor: Maria Healy
Resource type: Game, Tool, App/Software
Free app compatible for ipad. Suitable for 3rd to 6th Class. Contains hundreds of spellings to revise with your class.
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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:
- use a range of aids and strategies, including the use of approximate spelling, to improve his/her command of spelling
Suggestions for use: Could be used during station teaching, as an early finishers' activity or as a reward. There are three difficulty settings, easy, medium and difficult, each contains 5 levels of ten words. There is a one minute timer to spell the word
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
Suggestions for use: Could be used during station teaching, as an early finishers' activity or as a reward. There are three difficulty settings, easy, medium and difficult, each contains 5 levels of ten words. There is a one minute timer to spell the word.
http://launchpadtoys.com/
Added:18 Aug 2015
Contributor: Rachel Riordan
Resource type: Game, Audio / Video, App/Software
This is an a free app, called 'Toontastic', available from the App Store for use on iPads with ios6 or higher. It enables pupils aged 6--9 develop and record their own swashbuckling stories. There are a range of stories, in cartoon format, to choose from. Story types include aliens and pirates, amongst others. The children move their cartoon characters and record their narratives.
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Oral Language
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- become increasingly explicit in relation to people, places, times, processes and events by adding elaborative detail to what he/she describes and narrates
Suggestions for use: Use on iPad in station teaching or with children working in pairs
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/
Added:18 Aug 2015
Contributor: Jennifer Watson
Resource type: Guide/Notes, Lesson Plan
We have hundreds of standards-based lesson plans written and reviewed by educators using current research and the best instructional practices. Find the perfect one for your classroom.
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: For use with all age group within the English/Literacy curriculum.
