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http://www.clicnews.ie
Added:15 Aug 2015
Contributor: Paula Coyle
Resource type: Presentation, Tool
News website for senior classes
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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:
- argue points of view from the perspective of agreement and disagreement through informal discussion and in the context of formal debates
- discuss ideas and concepts encountered in other areas of the curriculum
- discuss issues of major concern
- discuss the value, truth or relevance of popular ideas, causes and proverbs
- justify and defend particular opinions or attitudes and try to persuade others to support a particular point of view
Suggestions for use: Oral reports, discussions, report writing, reading
http://www.spicynodes.org/
Added:15 Aug 2015
Contributor: Fiona Tormey
Resource type: Presentation, Project
This is a useful website when using mind mapping of concept mapping in the classroom. It helps children to organise their thoughts and ideas.
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English3-45-6
How it maps to the curriculum
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:
- expand and clarify his/her thoughts on a particular idea or topic through drafting and re-drafting
- write in a variety of genres with greater sophistication
Suggestions for use: This is a useful resource for children to use when organising their thoughts and ideas for example; planning a story.
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:
- refine ideas and their expression through drafting and re-drafting
- reflect on and analyse ideas through writing
- relate new ideas to previous learning
- write in a wide variety of genres
Suggestions for use: This is a useful resource for children to use when organising their thoughts and ideas for example; planning a story
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/15441/15082.docx
Added:15 Aug 2015
Contributor: dervilla gaughan
Resource type: Lesson Plan
Developing a story using story cubes to create a story.
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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:
- develop an awareness of the difference between written language and oral language
- develop his/her ability to write using information technology
- give sequence to ideas and events in stories
- learn to revise and re-draft writing
- write regularly, and gradually extend the period over which a writing effort is sustained
http://learnenglishkids.britishcoun...ries/goldilocks-and-the-three-bears
Added:14 Aug 2015
Contributor: Michelle Traynor
Resource type: Audio / Video
Short animation story of Goldilocks. This video shows the written version at the bottom of the video.
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: When learning about the story of Goldilocks . This website provides an animated version of the story with words. Great resource for visual and aural learners. Super song to go along with the story.
http://wegivebooks.org
Added:13 Aug 2015
Contributor: Aoibheann Malone
Resource type: Textbook, Other
Free online books for various age groups
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Englishin1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
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
- handle books and browse through them
- 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
Suggestions for use: Suitable for whole class reading on an IWB or individual/paired reading on tablets
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- engage in personal reading
- learn to find books in a classroom or school library
- read aloud to share a text with an audience
- read from a range of children's literature, choosing material for reading during silent reading periods
Suggestions for use: Suitable for whole class reading on an IWB or individual/paired reading on tablets
http://l.georges.online.fr/tools/cloze.html
Added:13 Aug 2015
Contributor: kieran carthy
Resource type: Assessment, Tool
This is a link to a fantastic website that allows you to create your own cloze procedures by copying and pasting any piece of text into the creator and selecting what types of words you want omitted. It is a fantastic tool to create cloze procedures that mean something to your given class, that focus on specific elements that you are working on and to allow for differentiation as you could use the same piece of text for the whole class but vary the difficulty of the omissions based on the ability levels.
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English5-6
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- English
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: This fantastic online tool could be used as a whole class activity on the IWB, the teacher could include extracts on the current class novel or extracts from the children's own work, you can choose what aspects of grammar or vocabulary you would like to focus on, you could vary the amount or difficulty of the omissions for differentiation purposes.
http://www.scratchjr.org/
Added:13 Aug 2015
Contributor: Laura o Keefe
Resource type: Game, Project, Tool
ScratchJr, enables young children to program their own interactive stories and games. Other skills include problem solving, project design , storytelling and expressing themselves on their device.
ScratchJr is an introductory programming language that enables young children to create their own interactive stories and games. Children snap together graphical programming blocks to make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. Children can modify characters in the paint editor, add their own voices and sounds, even insert photos of themselves -- then use the programming blocks to make their characters come to life.
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ScratchJr is an introductory programming language that enables young children to create their own interactive stories and games. Children snap together graphical programming blocks to make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. Children can modify characters in the paint editor, add their own voices and sounds, even insert photos of themselves -- then use the programming blocks to make their characters come to life.
Englishin
How it maps to the curriculum
- in
- English
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: This app is a creative tool which enables children to develop stories and games through coding. Programme blocks are used to develop characters, movements, set scenes, add photos, voice overs etc. It can be used to create stories, a basis for a language lesson, a conclusion or station option.
Coding is the new literacy apparently!
http://readingeggs.com.au/
Added:13 Aug 2015
Contributor: Claire Darcy
Resource type: Game
Website to help develop children's reading
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English1-2
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/15372/15013.docx
Added:13 Aug 2015
Contributor: Ciara Dawson
Resource type: Other
children to use letter stickers or stampers to read , build and write the word.
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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:
- begin to develop conventional spelling of simple words
- understand the left-right, top-bottom orientation of writing
- write and draw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKXdi4jtAXk
Added:13 Aug 2015
Contributor: kerrie byrne
Resource type: Audio / Video
A cartoon treasure hunt looking for 'S' words
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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:
- respond to characters, situations and story details, relating them to personal experience
Suggestions for use: Phonics development
