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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/story-wheel/id437068725?mt=8
Added:12 Aug 2015
Contributor: James Minnock
Resource type: App/Software
The Story Wheel App allows students to collaboratively create a story in a small group situation. The students spin the wheel and are faced with an image, for which they are required to generate a story. They can record their voice and add their piece to the story which can be played back and edited collaboratively allowing them to develop their vocabulary and their learning through discussion.
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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
- engage in real and imaginary situations involving language use
- listen to a story or narrative and ask questions about it
Suggestions for use: The Story Wheel App allows students to collaboratively create a story in a small group situation. The students spin the wheel and are faced with an image, for which they are required to generate a story. They can record their voice and add their piece to the story which can be played back and edited collaboratively allowing them to develop their vocabulary and their learning through discussion.
https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/comic-life/id432537882?mt=8
Added:12 Aug 2015
Contributor: Maggie McGivern
Resource type: App/Software
The app offers students a variety of editable templates to choose from into which students can insert images and text. It can be used mainly for composing narrative texts and creating storyboards however, it could also be used across the curriculum in SESE and even Mathematics to illustrate a student’s understanding of a particular concept or to as a type of summative assessment at the end of a topic.
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English5-6
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- English
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: Can be used for creating storyboards or by student's to illustrate their understanding of a particular concept or to as a type of summative assessment at the end of a topic.
http://www.arkive.org/
Added:12 Aug 2015
Contributor: Edel Doherty
Resource type: Audio / Video, Reference, Tool
I use this for report writing in class. The children look at the videos based on the animals and then they partake in independent writing following this,
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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:
- experience a classroom environment that encourages writing
- experience interesting and relevant writing challenges
- express and communicate reactions to reading experiences
- observe the teacher model a wide variety of writing genres
- receive and give constructive responses to writing
- see his/her writing valued
- write for an increasingly varied audience
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/comic-life/id432537882?mt=8
Added:12 Aug 2015
Contributor: michael conlon
Resource type: App/Software
App for writing stories using comics
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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:
- create stories and poems
- express his/her reactions to particular experiences in writing
- write about feelings experienced in improvisational drama
- write extended stories in book form
http://fis.ie/fis-book-club/
Added:12 Aug 2015
Contributor: fiona barry
Resource type: Assessment, Audio / Video, Presentation, Project
A great English resource made even easier these days with tablets, in built microphones, speakers etc. No need for headsets etc anymore if you don't want to use them or don't have them!
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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:
- acquire the ability to give detailed instructions and directions
- converse freely and confidently on a range of topics
- hear accents and dialects other than his/her own on tape and on video and discuss them
- practise and use improvisational drama to acquire a facility in performing more elaborate social functions
http://www.ictgames.com/poopDeckPirates/index.html
Added:12 Aug 2015
Contributor: Clara Mc Carthy
Resource type: Game
Read real and nonsense words. Only real words will earn you gold coins!
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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
- engage in shared reading activities
- learn to isolate beginning and final sounds in written words
- learn to isolate the beginning sound of a word or syllable
Suggestions for use: Practice skills of reading key words and blending.
http://www.pimpampum.net/en/content/bubblr
Added:12 Aug 2015
Contributor: Andrea Rice
Resource type: Tool, App/Software
Bubblr is a community where people can create comic strips or photo novels using photos from Flickr. You simply arrange a sequence of pictures and add bubbles 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:
- express in writing his/her reactions to personal reading
- write about favourite moments, characters and events in stories
- write extended stories in book form
Suggestions for use: Storywriting, group work, SESE projects, procedural writing
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/15347/14988.pdf
Added:12 Aug 2015
Contributor: Michelle Hennessy
Resource type:
Used for Oral Language Development in the Infant Classrooms .ICT Apps
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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
- initiate and sustain a conversation on a particular topic
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/15320/14961.pdf
Added:11 Aug 2015
Contributor: Ger O'Donovan
Resource type: Primary Source
Pupils are asked to cut out a set of pictures and match them to their rime.
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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
Suggestions for use: Activity sheets to allow the pupils explore rhyming words
http://www.storytimeonline.co.uk
Added:10 Aug 2015
Contributor: Fiona Prendergast
Resource type: Audio / Video
Children's books and short stories read aloud by favourite authors and actors
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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:
- continue to experience the reading process being modelled
- engage in activities designed to increase awareness of sounds
Suggestions for use: Lovely resource to finish off a reading lesson or to support a book being read in class. The children really enjoy hearing the stories being read aloud by famous actors or stars that they recognise.
