Vocabulary

Word Mess App

by admin on 29/03/2013

Word Mess AppWord Mess is a new app that I think pupils will love and it comes with a word of warning – it is quite addictive! If your pupils like word games like puzzles, wordsearches or crosswords, then they will love this app. It is a cross between a type of wordsearch and a word cloud. There are two main sections in the app – Challenge and QuickPlay. Quickplay has three different games – Find, Category and Rhymes. [click to continue…]

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Pop Words App

by admin on 24/03/2013

Popwords!Popwords! is a free app for iPhone/iPod and iPad for practising vocabulary and spelling. There are four different ways to play the game – Classic, Practice, Puzzle and Daily Puzzle. It’s a good idea to start with the Practice section of the app so that the pupils can get used to the way the app works. You are given six rows of five letters on tiles. The aim of the game is to find as many words of at least three letters as you can. You make words by tapping or swiping letters in sequence. [click to continue…]

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CVC A Words

by admin on 02/12/2012

This is a simple phonic lesson on a Powerpoint presentation to get younger pupils to identify the -at and -an sounds in the pictures on the slides.

Source: Fiona Mahon

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CVC Words Beginning With C

by admin on 01/08/2012

Powerpoint presentation of a list of CVC words beginning with the letter C. See how many words your pupils can read.

(.ppt file 232KB)

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CVC Words Beginning With L

by admin on 27/07/2012

Powerpoint presentation of a list of CVC words beginning with the letter H. See how many words your pupils can read.

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CVC Words Beginning With H

July 27, 2012

Powerpoint presentation of a list of CVC words beginning with the letter H. See how many words your pupils can read. (.ppt file 644KB) You can choose to download the presentation or to view it in the embedded file below.

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CVC Words Beginning With D

July 26, 2012

Powerpoint presentation of a list of CVC words beginning with the letter D. See how many words your pupils can read. (.ppt file 1.11MB) You can choose to download the presentation or to view it in the embedded file below.

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CVC Words Beginning With B

July 26, 2012

Powerpoint presentation of a list of CVC words beginning with the letter B. See how many words your pupils can read. (.ppt file 1.49MB) You can choose to download the presentation or to view it in the embedded file below.

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Titanic Vocabulary

April 13, 2012

Flashcards with all of the vocabulary to tell the story of the voyage and the sinking of the Titanic, 100 years ago. (.pdf file 1.16MB) Download File

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Apps to Support Literacy

March 26, 2012

Check out this article I wrote on Apps to Support Literacy in the Classroom for the March 2012 edition of InTouch, the INTO magazine for primary school teachers. The article mentions six different apps to support different aspects of literacy: Rory’s Story Cubes (oral language); Smiley Sight Words (building a sight vocabulary); Chicktionary (development of [...]

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Call My Bluff

March 9, 2012

“Call my Bluff” is a Powerpoint game aimed at 4th – 6th class for practising dictionary skills. It is ideal for use with an interactive whiteboard. On each slide, pupils are presented with a difficult word that they probably have not come across before. Three/four possible explanations are given for the word and pupils have [...]

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Length Vocabulary

February 21, 2012

These are posters with the language of length for mathematics. They are to re-inforce the concepts of long, longer, longest; short, shorter, shortest (.pdf file 455KB) Download File

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Types of Houses

February 21, 2012

Flashcards with the names of various types of hoses found at home and abroad. (.pdf file 613KB) Download File

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The Wizard of Oz

February 19, 2012

Flashcards to help with the teaching of the classic L. Frank Baum story of the Wizard of Oz, including all of the main characters and ideas in the story. (.pdf file 3.27MB) Download File

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Electricity

February 4, 2012

Flashcards with vocabulary to help with the teaching of electricity in the science curriculum. (.pdf file 1.11MB) Download File

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