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….
Pelmanism 04
Pelmanism is the name of the memory game which you play by turning up pairs of cards from a pack and trying to pick out matching pairs. It is named after the Pelman Institute which was set up for the study of memory in London in the 1930s.
This oral language memory game focuses on homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently). There are three sets of sixteen cards (eight pairs) in this pack, 48 cards in all.
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Ordinal Number Cards 01
This resource focuses on ordinal numbers and positional language, which can pose some difficulties for younger pupils and SEN pupils. It consists of eighteen cards, each with six images of various fruit and vegetables. The pupil is asked a question at the top of each card – which is first / last / third etc.
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Dolch Loop Cards 01
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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Book Review: Only Eva
Only Eva is the latest book from Judi Curtin. It’s about a girl called Eva and her friend Ella. One day Eva and Ella are at school and a new girl comes from Nigeria, called Aretta. When Eva and Ella make friends with Aretta , they want to hang out with her after school but every day she has an excuse and always rushes off as soon as school is over. Eva and Ella are very curious as to why Aretta does this. read more…
Book Review: The Lost Fairy
I recently read “The Lost Fairy” by Marian Broderick to my three and half year old sisters. This highly entertaining fairytale follows Flora on a journey as she realises that she needs friends to help her regain her rightful perch on the Christmas tree.
Even though it looks like a “girly” book, the book is easily read by both boys and girls aged 6 and over. It would also be enjoyed as a bed time story read more…
ESL Aloud Website
ESL Aloud is a new website from an Irish primary school teacher. The teacher creates simple poems in order to teach basic vocabulary to pupils learning English as a second language. The poems are colourful and engaging and would look great projected large onto an IWB. Images pertinent to the vocabulary of the poem accompany the poems. read more…
Munster Counties Matching
This resource is aimed at pupils in middle/senior classes or SEN pupils with speech and language difficulties. It assumes an ability to read. The counties of Munster would also need to be taught in advance. Its aim is to assess whether pupils can match the names of the counties with their location in Munster.
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Occupations Matching 01
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or SEN pupils with speech and language difficulties. It assumes an ability to read. The occupations vocabulary would also need to be taught in advance. The occupations teaching cards can be found
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