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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Verb Matching 03
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or SEN pupils with speech and language difficulties. It assumes an ability to read. The verbs would also need to be taught in advance. Links to the teaching verb cards can be found below. Its aim is to assess whether pupils can match the verb words with the appropriate images.
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Pizza Bingo
Educational bingo games are a great way for pupils to learn so many different skills. They help with listening skills, visual discrimination, group work, turn taking and the reinforcement of the learning content of that particular bingo game.
This bingo game focuses on the theme of “Pizza” and it features images like a pizza chef, pizza sauce, pizza cutter
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Smarty Cat Games Competition
Smarty Cat Games has recently developed Gaeilge resources to assist with the teaching of Curaclam na Gaeilge. The Chatty Cat Ball (An Cat Cainteach) contains 21 questions and actions to help children develop their oral language skills in a really exciting and fun way. It develops children’s ability to speak about themselves in front of their peers. Through this interactive and hands on activity children become actively involved and engaged in their own learning. read more…
New Resource For Childhood Bereavement
The Irish Childhood Bereavement Network (ICBN) has just published a new resource for primary teachers on how to support a bereaved child in the classroom setting. “Listen With Eyes, Ears and Heart” is an online resource, which aims to empower primary teachers to support a pupil in their class following a death of someone in their lives. read more…
Book Review: Friend Or Foe
Friend or Foe is set in Dublin in the 1916 Easter Rising. The main characters are Emer Davey and Jack Madigan both of whose families are on different sides, Emer’s family being on the side of the Volunteers, and Jack’s family being on the side of the law. The minor characters in the story are Gladys, Joan, Ben, Gerry, Phelim, Emer’s parents and Jack’s parents. read more…
School 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 school vocabulary would also need to be taught in advance. The school teaching cards can be found
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Counting Task 01
This resource is aimed at pupils in junior classes or SEN pupils, at the beginning of work on conservation of number. It is a form of assessment to see whether a pupil has mastered the concept of the numbers 1-12. Pupils have to count the smiley faces on each card and match the answers with the appropriate images.
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