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Could be used for a range of activities. Select letters and students could make words with those letters, or set task how many words can you make with a 'tion' ending for example. Words can be sent to and stored in a wordbank once created.

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)

Help to write articles for a local newspaper. Investigate community attitudes to a development planned for a local park. Look at development plans for the site. Interpret graphs showing results of a public opinion poll. In this scenario, the community is in favour of the proposed development. This learning object is one in a series of five objects.\n\nThe purpose of this learning object is for:\n\nStudents to decode a range of texts which state a position on the same topic. \nStudents to construct literal and inferential meaning from exposition texts. \nStudents to consider the position taken by a range of texts on the same topic. \nStudents to identify how textual choices contribute to how texts convey a point of view. \nStudents to identify bias and author's viewpoint in texts. \nStudents to use logical reasoning to match an author with a particular text.\

A great website full of Christmas activities including an automatic email response from Santa