A range of interactive Literacy games and activities to improve English Skills (focusing on writing genres: fairytales, procedural text, letters, recounts, similies, narratives, dialogues, plays, poetry, newspapers, proverbs)
This programe features seven video clips that are designed for teachers to use on their interactive whiteboard when teaching literacy.
Suitable for Years 1 - 7, each of the short clips sets up an environment or a narrative that can be used to fire the children's imagination.
An alluring jewellery shop, a ghostly graveyard and a tunnel with a warning
are just three of exciting story starts included.
An excellent website where someone has already searched through and selected the good flash files and IWB activities. Great for literacy and maths - whole class tuning in or independent activities.
Great science clips to use in the classroom for your literacy/ICT lessons. Some would be great on the IWB while others could be completed individually by students on the desktop computers.
This site enables children to create a character, then record a message for the character to read out. Watch out though, if there are any spelling mistakes etc... what you wanted you character to say ends up sounding a little bit odd! Interesting to include in a range of literacy activities.
Excellent website full of FREE resources for the middle/upper classroom (visual timetables/posters/borders/templates) and also lots of free quality downloadable resources for literacy, numeracy and various integrated topics. Also a photo section of teachers displays etc for ideas.
Excellent website full of FREE resources for the lower years classroom (visual timetables/posters/borders/templates) and also lots of free quality downloadable resources for literacy, numeracy and various integrated topics. Also a photo section of teachers displays etc for ideas.
Great, short videos of palentologists talking about dinosaurs. A written transcript is available beneath the video. Suitable to a range of literacy activities.
This portal is designed for Primary students and is filled with HEAPS of useful links. The "backpack" contains an online dictionary and thesaurus that could easily be linked with literacy activities. There are lots of great links in the "Things to do" column and new featured websites are regularly added. The search bar also leads to more kid friendly searching of the net
This programme consists of nine short drama sequences that can be used in the classroom to stimulate creative writing amongst primary pupils.
Each story start presents a different scenario and characters which are open to interpretation by pupils and teachers. Each individual story start ends on a cliff-hanger, encouraging pupils to continue the story from this point.
Smories is a website with short videos of children reading original stories for kids. There are 50 new Smories added every month. Writers are encouraged to submit their original children's stories to be featured on the website.
The stories are advertised as being suitable for children aged three to eight although there are many stories that would also appeal to children older than eight.
This site offers a great way to model reading with expression and can also be used as a comprehension activity. Encourage the students to picture the story in their mind as they listen. Listening to Smories is also a good way to revise the features of a narrative.
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