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http://www.roalddahlfans.com/teachers.php
Added:29 May 2014
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type: Lesson Plan
A collection of lesson plans and classroom ideas collected by a Roald Dahl fan club website. Organized by topic, with ideas for general Dahl education, books, and shortstories.
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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:
- appreciate issues in fiction
- browse through, handle, discuss, recommend and select books for independent reading
- continue to share response to an ever-increasing variety of texts with the wider community of readers
- develop individuality as a reader by experiencing success and the enhancement of self-esteem through reading
- examine similarities and differences in various types of text
- read aloud from a personal choice of texts to entertain and inform an audience
- relate personal experience to the ideas and emotions conveyed in the text
- respond to poetry and fiction through discussion, writing, drama, the visual arts and dance
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk
Added:12 May 2014
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type:
Award-winning site devoted to improving reading skills at home and at school. Contains 250 free ebooks that are searchable by age, type and series. Free registration required to access ebooks.
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Englishin1-23-4
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:
- create and tell stories
- create real and imaginary sound worlds
- experiment with different voices in role-playing
- listen to, learn and ask riddles
- listen to, learn and recite rhymes, including nonsense rhymes
- listen to, learn and retell a rich variety of stories, rhymes and songs
Suggestions for use: may be used both by teachers in whole-class or shared reading settings or by children independently seeking to improve their reading skills. Once a suitable book has been chosen it is possible to view it on the IWB or a tablet without or without sound.
Strand: Oral Language
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- ask questions that will satisfy his/her curiosity and wonder
- engage in real and imaginary situations involving language use
- give a description, recount a narrative or describe a process, and answer questions about it
- listen to a story or narrative and ask questions about it
Suggestions for use: may be used both by teachers in whole-class or shared reading settings or by children independently seeking to improve their reading skills. Once a suitable book has been chosen it is possible to view it on the IWB or a tablet without or without sound.
Strand: Oral Language
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- discuss a story being read and predict future events and likely outcomes in it
- explore reactions to ideas through improvisational drama
- learn how to use the basic key questions
- listen to a presentation and discuss and decide which are the most important questions to ask
- make presentations to the class about his/her own particular interests
Suggestions for use: may be used both by teachers in whole-class or shared reading settings or by children independently seeking to improve their reading skills. Once a suitable book has been chosen it is possible to view it on the IWB or a tablet without or without sound.
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/read-and-write
Added:13 May 2014
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type:
Supports reading, writing and speaking English. The site is designed for children learning English as a second language but resources may also be used by children at Primary level and is ideal for both integrating lessons on various topics or enabling students to complete reading and writing acitivities online and at their own pace.
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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: Internet access permitting, children can read a story (appropriate to their ability) in the story section and complete the acitivites either in pairs or individually. They can choose a topic of interest and complete the corresponding online and offline activities.
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
- learn to find books in a classroom or school library
- perform simple information retrieval tasks
- 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: Internet access permitting, children can read a story (appropriate to their ability) in the story section and complete the acitivites either in pairs or individually. They can choose a topic of interest and complete the corresponding online and offline activities.
http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/kids/stories
Added:15 May 2014
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type: Other
A series of short stories about people - mostly young people - who live in the rainforest. Among the stories are: Chayo's Andean Home; My Dad the Ranger; Manny Manatee and the Mystery of the Murky Water.
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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:
- experience a shared response to fiction through the use of a class novel
- extend and develop his/her response to increasingly challenging reading material
- read aloud with expression
Suggestions for use: Nice way to combine reading with Geography and an awareness for teh environment.
http://www.literacyshed.com
Added:13 May 2014
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type: Guide/Notes
Films, animations, photographs and picture books for teaching literacy. Contains a clear structure and is divided into "sheds" whereby each one has a theme - for example, The Myths Shed, The Video Game Shed, The Mystery Shed.
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English5-6
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/welcome/for-home/reading-owl/fun-ideas
Added:28 Apr 2014
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type: Other
Series of suggestions for activities and games based around the concept of reading and literacy. Activities are included for their 'fun' element.
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English1-23-45-6
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- engage in personal reading
- perform simple information retrieval tasks
Strand: Reading
Content objective:
This resource should enable a child to:
This resource should enable a child to:
- develop basic information retrieval skills
- engage with a wide variety of poetry and verse on a regular basis
- experience different types of text
Strand: Reading
https://www.scoilnet.ie/uploads/resources/11740/11371.pdf
Added:22 Apr 2014
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type: Guide/Notes
Find out what inspires Darren Shan to write and what he read as a kid in this short collection of interesting questions and answers.
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English5-6
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- English
Strand: Reading
Suggestions for use: Use as a stimulus to model the type of interview questions a pupil might ask an author or as the basis for talk and discussion or a reading comprehension. Print and distribute between groups or display on an IWB.
http://www.fuelthebrain.com/Printable/customWorksheet.php
Added:25 Apr 2014
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type: Tool
Create a venn diagram, line plot, bar graph, hundred square and multiplication tables for printing.
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Mathematics3-45-6
English3-45-6
http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/V...ntract/eng/Introduction/default.htm
Added:16 Apr 2014
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type: Assessment, Guide/Notes
Explains what apostrophes are and the circumstances in which they should be used. Includes a 'contraction matching activity' and has a quiz on the correct use of apostrophes.
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English3-45-6
How it maps to the curriculum
http://www.youngzine.org/
Added:16 Apr 2014
Contributor: Scoilnet
Resource type: Other
Mazazine-type website for children where they can learn about current events around the world without the bias, sensationalism and often inappropriate content in mainstream media.
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English3-45-6
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Writing
Suggestions for use: Very visual so appropriate for IWB and class. Could inspire children to write stories or reports of their own. Good to get the children thinking about current events.
Strand: Writing
Suggestions for use: Very visual so appropriate for IWB and class. Could inspire children to write stories or reports of their own. Good to get the children thinking about current events.
