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http://www.collins.co.uk/page/Collins+Big+Cat
Added:8 Jul 2015
Contributor: Sharon McCabe
Resource type: Guide/Notes, Textbook
View a huge range of ebooks online, actively complete a range of engaging and stimulating activities based on individual reading needs to encourage the development of reading, speaking and listening skills
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Englishin1-23-4
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- become an active listener through the development of a range of listening activities based on stories read or told
- become familiar with a wide range of environmental print, beginning with print in the classroom
- develop a sense of rhythm and rhyme
- develop an awareness of some letter-sound relationships
- learn about the basic terminology and conventions of books
- learn to recognise and name the letters of the alphabet
- listen to, enjoy and respond to stories, nursery rhymes, poems and songs
- play with language to develop an awareness of sounds
- read texts created by himself/herself and by other children in collaboration with the teacher
Suggestions for use: Develop a love of reading, shared reading, phonics
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- continue to listen to and enjoy stories and poems being read aloud
- engage frequently in informal discussion of books with teacher and others
- engage in spare-moment reading and browsing by having ready access to reading material
- engage with a wide variety of text
- experience enhanced levels of self-esteem through success in reading
- explore different attitudes and feelings by imagining what it would be like to be certain characters
- listen to entire stories read aloud in instalments
- respond to characters and events in a story
Suggestions for use: Actively engaging in discussions based on the books, developing comprehension skills
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
- develop skills in locating and handling books through using well-stocked school and classroom libraries
- explore new interests and perspectives through reading
- extend participation in listening and silent reading activities
- keep a record of his/her reading in various forms
- know the structure and terminology of books
- read books independently
- read short books in one sitting to experience success in reading
- seek recommendations for books to read and recommend books to others
- use a knowledge of printing conventions as an aid to expression and comprehension
Suggestions for use: Building on comprehension skills, actively engage in independent reading and associated activities, become familiar with structure of fiction and non fiction books
http://www.snappywords.com
Added:8 Jul 2015
Contributor: Caitriona UiChonnachtain
Resource type: Tool
An online interactive English dictionary and thesaurus that helps find the meanings of words and draw connections to associated words. Pupils can easily see the meaning of each by simply placing the mouse cursor over it and learn how words associate in a visually interactive display.
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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
- learn to revise and re-draft writing
- learn to write with increasing grammatical accuracy through the process of revision and editing
Suggestions for use: Place the mouse cursor over a word to view the meaning.
Double click a node from the branch to view other related words.
Scroll the mouse wheel over words to zoom in or out. This helps you see more associations or view words and meanings more clearly.
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-school
Added:8 Jul 2015
Contributor: Katrina Fitzgerald
Resource type:
Ebooks with audio and comprehension activities for range of abilities
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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
https://appsto.re/ie/uKcRZ.i
Added:8 Jul 2015
Contributor: Helen Dooley
Resource type: Assessment, Game, Other
Improve inferential skills at a step by step level beginning with simple sentences and progressing to whole passages in a fun and game like way with instant feedback
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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
- keep a record of his/her reading in various forms
Suggestions for use: Individual Use
Working in Pairs
Ideal for assessment
Ideal for struggling readers
Ideal for children with SEN
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/play.htm?f
Added:8 Jul 2015
Contributor: ElizabethMary Whelan
Resource type: Game
Whole class activity to teach letter names and phonics
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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:
- develop a sense of rhythm and rhyme
- develop an awareness of some letter-sound relationships
- learn to recognise and name the letters of the alphabet
Suggestions for use: An introduction to letter names and sounds
Suitable for whole class teaching through an IWB
Ideal for individual learning situations where each child has access to an iPad/tablet
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/construct/
Added:8 Jul 2015
Contributor: Eamhair Kirwan
Resource type: Assessment
Provides a simple engaging way for students to generate dozens of different words by first choosing an ending ( example -an,-ed etc) and then adding a beginning letter or blend.can be used individually or in small groups.
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Writing
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- spell words in a recognisable way based on an awareness of the most common spelling strings and patterns
Suggestions for use: Word families
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/14277/13915.docx
Added:8 Jul 2015
Contributor: Mary Bennett
Resource type: Lesson Plan
An introduction to and exploration of the story 'Beauty and the Beast'.
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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
- have access to a plentiful supply of books both in the classroom and in the school library
Suggestions for use: For an introduction to fairy tales. For an introduction to narrative writing.
https://www.storycubes.com/
Added:8 Jul 2015
Contributor: Lisa Larkin
Resource type: Game, Audio / Video, Presentation, App/Software
Forming a story using pictures on cubes
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English1-2
How it maps to the curriculum
- 1-2
- English
Strand: Writing
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- experience an abundance of oral language activity when preparing a writing task
- have regular opportunities to write for himself/herself or for others
- write notes and messages to different audiences
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/load.htm
Added:8 Jul 2015
Contributor: Lisa Larkin
Resource type: Audio / Video, Presentation
Learning the 26 letters of the english alphabet
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Englishin
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/index.htm
Added:8 Jul 2015
Contributor: kelly conway
Resource type: Assessment, Game
Website with interactive phonics games, printable resources, assessment ideas and plans
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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
- 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
