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https://www.google.ie/?gws_rd=ssl#q=starfall
Added:22 Jul 2015
Contributor: eileen kenny
Resource type: Other
Starfall is a children's website that teaches basic English reading and writing skills.
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Englishin
How it maps to the curriculum
- in
- English
Suggestions for use: Reading Games and paired Reading ,phonics practice and consolidation, Confidence boosting
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/expressive-builder/id405801365?mt=8
Added:23 Jul 2015
Contributor: Bennet Kirwan
Resource type: Assessment, Audio / Video, Simulation, App/Software
The objectives of this app are: to improve sentence ideation, to improve senttence formation and to improve receptive and expressive language. The app uses photos as a stimulus to encourage children to make up a sentence, that can be recorded and played back to them. The app also provides the children with three differentiated levels of clues to further assist the children.
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English1-23-4
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Oral Language
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- engage in real and imaginary situations to perform different social functions
- experiment with more elaborate vocabulary and sentence structure in order to extend and explore meaning
- experiment with word order and examine its implications for meaning and clarity
- focus on the subject under discussion and sustain a conversation on it
- initiate discussions, respond to the initiatives of others, and have practice in taking turns
- talk about and reflect on past and present experiences, and plan, predict, anticipate and speculate about future and imaginary experiences
Suggestions for use: This app works excellently independently during discrete Oral Language or Speech and Language lessons and also as a springboard for other lessons/topics.
Strand: Oral Language
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of new words and new connotations of words through his/her reading and writing experience
- become familiar with the functions of words without necessarily using technical grammatical terms
- discuss the meanings and origins of words, phrases and expressions with the teacher
- give and take turns in speaking and experience a classroom environment in which tolerance for the views of others is fostered
- hear, discuss and react to local storytellers
- initiate conversations and respond to the initiatives of others in talking about experiences and activities
- make lists of local expressions and words
- play synonym and antonym games
- practise the common social functions in the everyday context of class and school and through improvisational drama
Suggestions for use: This app works excellently independently during discrete Oral Language or Speech and Language lessons and also as a springboard for other lessons/topics.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spelling-magic-3/id446294881?mt=8
Added:22 Jul 2015
Contributor: Louise Brady
Resource type:
Allows children to practise spelling 4-7 letter words
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Useful Websites
Suggestions for use: Station teaching activity, homework activity, early finisher activity
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/too...tastic-jr.-pirates/id579933458?mt=8
Added:23 Jul 2015
Contributor: Mona Fox
Resource type:
Create a Story
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Writing
Strand unit: Developing Cognitive Ability through Language
Suggestions for use: Children create their own narrative stories
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/pir...treasure-hunt-eight/id392208108?...
Added:21 Jul 2015
Contributor: Niamh Reilly
Resource type: Game
This is a an app providing a variety of problem solving opportunities for the children. As you help Pirate Jack to find the hidden treasure you take part in mathematical and literacy based tasks: shapes, spelling, addition sums, sequencing, and time problems, etc. It is great for the variety it offers and encouraging the children to adapt from one type of skill to another.
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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: Problem solving. This is great as pair work. The children must read through a series of clues based on questions relating to maths and literacy. It provides a different option from reading their class readers and also to reinforce different strands covered in maths. They can work at their own pace and when they finish they get a real sense of achievement from it.
http://fountasandpinnellleveledbooks.com
Added:21 Jul 2015
Contributor: Mary Ryan
Resource type: Reference
This is a frequently updated online list that contains nearly 5 0 , 000 books submitted by over 300 publishers. Every book is reviewed and leveled by Fountas & Pinnell and their team. It would be of great benefit to school introducing the Lift Off to Literacy initiative. It would give you a level for books that might not already be leveled but that you may like to use.
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Reading
Suggestions for use: Use as a reference guide when choosing books for Lift Off to Literacy or Guided Reading
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/what-am-i-riddles/id651468818?mt=8
Added:21 Jul 2015
Contributor: Yvonne McQuaid
Resource type: App/Software
Great app for reading and oral language, with a little game after each riddle.
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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 shared reading activities
Suggestions for use: As a whole class activity or individual activity during literacy hour/station teaching
http://reading.ecb.org/teacher/index.html
Added:21 Jul 2015
Contributor: Evelyn Quin
Resource type: App/Software
Into the Book website offers teachers guides/ lesson plans to comprehension strategies of prior knowledge, making connections, visualising, inferring, summarising, evaluating, synthesizing and using strategies together. It also has a pupils section where they can undertake the activities.
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English3-4
How it maps to the curriculum
- 3-4
- 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:
- continue to develop a range of comprehension strategies to deal with narrative, expository and representational reading material
- continue to use information technology to increase motivation to read and to enhance reading development
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/14800/14439.docx
Added:21 Jul 2015
Contributor: Catriona Dalton
Resource type: Tool
This is a visual cue that will help children with SEN who have difficulty with decoding words whilst reading.
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English3-4
How it maps to the curriculum
- 3-4
- 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:
- read books independently
- read short books in one sitting to experience success in reading
- use a knowledge of printing conventions as an aid to expression and comprehension
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/14793/14432.pptx
Added:21 Jul 2015
Contributor: Paul Kenny
Resource type: Game, Lesson Plan
a compound word game for 2nd,3rd,4th class to be used in conjunction or at the end of a lesson.
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English3-4
