Online+Resources

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==== **From Teaching That Makes Sense** comes the Writing Teachers Strategy Guide a free downloadable booklet that contains simple strategies, tips, organisers, examples and posters to support your learners as they write. ====

This website has many short clips demonstrating effective teaching practices for improved literacy outcomes during the early years of schooling

 * Read/WriteThink is an amazing site, packed full of rich leanring ideas. Visit the Home page and use their search tool to find a learning topic e.g. Comics

Literacy games and activities at ICT Games (all ages) Have a look at te interactive dictionaries. Great for your IWBs

Online story made on a wiki by teachers: This was a trial developed by year 4/6 students at a school in Geelong, Vicotria, Australia during the latter part of 2006. Cgildren loved and chose to work through it in thier own time out of school. Similarly this was the experience of a Year 5 class in Rotorua, NZ. See Christian's and Pick a Path Stories here which were contionued in Christmas holidays and into the following year. This occurred, despite the children no longer being in the original teacher's class.

Examples of children's work on Photostory - Photostory is an amazing audi/visual tool for PC users. Have you tried it. Check out the links for some great examples.

Stories and poems to read and interact with for juniors

Poems to read and discuss for older students

A bit of fun - urban folk stories for older students to discuss

Myths from around the world - for older students

A great UK site for literacy activities and ideas (all ages)

A great site for reading and games for juniors

Our own NZ site - great games and activities here

The BBC link to literacy activities - lots to sort through and bookmark the ones your students could use

NZ Journal notes for journals part 3 and 4

Great flash animations for phonics for juniors

ESOL reading strategies Interesting ways to use you IWB and more

Maori language activities

Great UK site with games and activities for primary

Great Welsh site with games and activities

Teachers TV A great wiki web site all about using Voice Thread for the classroom

Literacy activities and tools A virtual world gamewhere children create their characters and write a script for them

Fun spelling activity- words are created with letters made by images of buildings in Google Earth

Another spelling web site- Yr 5/6 class

Text organisers for writing

Story web site

Printable graphic organisers (for integrating thinking skills with literacy)

Google safe search for children

Example of a great classroom wiki web site

Schools Tube TV

Jane and the Dragon - a really fun NZ site for older students

Google for educators - find

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