Welcome to Seomra Ranga, the Hub for Primary School Resources. For the overseas visitors “Seomra Ranga” means “classroom” in the Irish language.
Seomra Ranga has been successfully providing tried and tested resources for primary school classrooms since 2007. Since that time, the site has gradually built up a strong following amongst educators as a repository of quality teacher-created resources. The resources on the site, which support all areas of the curriculum, are arranged in accordance with the curricular provisions of the Irish primary school….
Dolch Loop Cards 05
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 can be sounded out phonetically, they really should be memorised as “sight words”.
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Sentence Strips 07
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 five sentence strips and the corresponding words, which are colour co-ordinated to assist with matching. Place velcro in each of the boxes on the sentence strips and on the rear of the individual words.
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Peg Which Is The Smallest 04
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 are different. This should make it easier for the pupil to identify the smallest number. The pupil has to use a clothes peg to indicate which they think is the smallest of the four numbers.
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Peg Which Is the Largest 04
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 are different. This should make it easier for the pupil to identify the largest number. The pupil has to use a clothes peg to indicate which they think is the largest of the four numbers.
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Saol Faoi Shráid
“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 on the TG4 Player at www.tg4.tv The series is aimed at 3-6 year olds and follows the adventures of brother and sister duo, Ribín & Glibín, aliens from the centre of the earth. read more…
CESI Annual Conference 2016
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 conference is “Our Digital Strategy – Making IT Matter“. read more…
My Reading Journal
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 – Thursday, and one box for weekend reading) where parents can sign when reading is completed and children can note new words or questions.
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Peg Cloze 01
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 clothes peg to identify on the right hand side of the card which word would best suit the sentence.
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