Election Phrases Word Mat
This word mat contains thirty-two common phrases that are likely to be heard in the media and social media during the course of an election, perhaps especially during a general election. This word mat encourages pupils to find out the meaning behind each of the phrases.
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Political Parties
With the country in election mode and talk of the election all around, it gives teachers the perfect opportunity to teach about politics and the election process through the “Developing Citizenship” Strand of the SPHE curriculum.
This resource consists of the names of the main political parties fighting the 2016 General Election.
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Political Party Leaders 2016
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 consists of posters of the leaders of the main political parties in the country who will be contesting the General Election.
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Peg Which Is The Largest 05
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 tens are different. This may make it trickier 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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Sentence Strips 08
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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Dolch Loop Cards 06
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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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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