by admin | Feb 2, 2016 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Elections, SPHE
With the General Election imminent, teachers will be taking the opportunity to teach pupils about the political and electoral process. This is the first of a set of new resources to assist teachers in introducing and explaining the General Election to their pupils. It...
by admin | Feb 1, 2016 | 3rd/4th, AEN, Number, Pegs
This resource is aimed at pupils in middle classes or SEN pupils. It is based on reinforcing the concept of hundreds, tens and units. The pack contains 20 cards: on the right hand side of each card are four numbers – the hundreds and units are the same, only the...
by admin | Jan 31, 2016 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, AEN, Reading
This resource is aimed at pupils in first to third classes or SEN pupils. Its purpose is to assist with the understanding of both sentence structure and reading for meaning. These sentences focus on questions. Laminate all of the pages in the resource. Cut out the...
by admin | Jan 30, 2016 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, AEN, Loop Cards, Reading
Dolch words are a list of 220 “service words” developed in the 1940s by William Dolch. They consist of a series of sets of words which are considered to be vocabulary which occurs most frequently in children’s reading material. Although some of the words in the lists...
by admin | Jan 30, 2016 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, AEN, Loop Cards, Reading
Dolch words are a list of 220 “service words” developed in the 1940s by William Dolch. They consist of a series of sets of words which are considered to be vocabulary which occurs most frequently in children’s reading material. Although some of the words in the lists...
by admin | Jan 30, 2016 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, AEN, Reading
This resource is aimed at pupils in first to third classes or SEN pupils. Its purpose is to assist with the understanding of both sentence structure and reading for meaning. These sentences focus on questions. Laminate all of the pages in the resource. Cut out the...
by admin | Jan 30, 2016 | 3rd/4th, AEN, Number, Pegs
This resource is aimed at pupils in middle classes or SEN pupils. It is based on reinforcing the concept of hundreds, tens and units. The pack contains 20 cards: on the right hand side of each card are four numbers – the tens and units are the same, only the hundreds...
by admin | Jan 30, 2016 | 3rd/4th, AEN, Number, Pegs
This resource is aimed at pupils in middle classes or SEN pupils. It is based on reinforcing the concept of hundreds, tens and units. The pack contains 20 cards: on the right hand side of each card are four numbers – the tens and units are the same, only the...
by admin | Jan 27, 2016 | Resources Websites, Teaching News
“Saol Faoi Shráid” is an animated children’s TV series created by TV production company Meangadh Fíbín for TG4. It is broadcast every weekday on TG4’s young people’s slot Cúla 4 and some of the series is also available to view at any time...
by admin | Jan 27, 2016 | Teaching News
It’s that time of year again when anticipation in educational technology circles in Ireland is building towards the annual conference of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) which will be held on Saturday February 27th. The theme of this year’s...
by admin | Jan 27, 2016 | 3rd/4th, 5th/6th, Reading
This is a journal designed to encourage children in 3rd to 6th classes to read regularly. There is a page for each week including a space for book title, weekly reading goal, a read-o-meter to record the total hours spent reading, and a space for each day (Monday...
by admin | Jan 24, 2016 | 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, AEN, Pegs, Reading
This peg literacy resource is aimed at pupils in middle classes or SEN pupils. It is made up of cloze sentences with one word missing. The pack contains 20 cards – on the left hand side of each card is a cat-themed sentence with a word missing. The pupil has to use a...
by admin | Jan 24, 2016 | 1st/2nd, AEN, Infants, Measures, Oral Work
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or pupils with speech and language difficulties. Its aim is to encourage oral language, especially sentence structure. The focus is also on the concept of longest/shortest. The teacher can start with the question at...
by admin | Jan 23, 2016 | AEN, Measures, Oral Work
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or pupils with speech and language difficulties. Categorisation is an important skill for younger/SEN pupils to develop. This resource aims to develop categorisation skills as well as to encourage oral language. This...
by admin | Jan 20, 2016 | Book Reviews
I read the book “Gulliver” which is a kids story based on a classic book written by Jonathan Swift. This story which has been retold by Mary Webb. The story is about a man called Gulliver who gets stranded on the island of Lilliput. The people living on the island are...
