by admin | Sep 30, 2013 | 1st/2nd, AEN, Aistear, English, Infants, Reading
This is a set of 42 posters of clothes vocabulary. It is not meant to be an exhaustive list of words pupils should know, just some of the common ones. They can be displayed as A4 posters, but they are also designed so that they can be cut up for a matching activity....
by admin | Jun 17, 2013 | Competitions
The O’Brien Press, which has an extensive catalogue of children’s books as well as many books of general interest, recently launched its new website. It features a new layout which includes an easy navigation, author profiles, book extracts, reviews,...
by admin | May 14, 2013 | Competitions
Shake a Phrase is a language app for the development of reading, vocabulary, grammar and writing. The app presents the content under five different themes – Animals, Fairytale, Monsters, Sports and Shake Starter. Using these themes, there are three sections to the app...
by admin | May 13, 2013 | Competitions
To coincide with the publication on this website of the Study Guide for “The Sleeping Baobab Tree” by Paula Leyden, the author and her publisher, Walker Books, have given us four copies of the book to give away on the site. “The Sleeping Baobab Tree”, like...
by admin | Apr 30, 2013 | Free
The Sleeping Baobab Tree by Paula Leyden, like its predecessor The Butterfly Heart, is set in Zambia. One morning twelve-year-old Fred wakes up with an unaccountable sense of foreboding, which his friend Bul-Boo, one of the twins from next door, insists is just his...
