My Favourite Christmas Books. (if you click on the pictures it will take you to the link for the Book Depository) I love traditional books…
Category: Literacy
I have previously blogged about my two favourite poetry websites for kids. Ken Nesbit and Giggle Poetry. Today’s post is some links for some great…
Virtual Art Museums
Posted in Art, Classroom, Literacy, Speaking and Listening, Uncategorized, and Writing
Today’s post is about art galleries. There is a plethora of virtual galleries with great collections of art you can access with your class. Google has…
Printable graphic organisers for reading comprehension
Posted in Classroom, Comprehension, Comprehension, Literacy, and Reading
The site teaching for comprehension and fluency created by Fountas and Pinnell has some excellent graphic oragnisers which have been specifically created for reading comprehension.…
Reading Resources for comprehension
Posted in Classroom, Comprehension, Literacy, and Reading
Hi Everyone, I was just looking on the internet and happened to stumble across this site which was created in 2012. The site Read Works.org,…
Dust Echo – Online indigenous stories
Posted in Classroom, Comprehension, Literacy, and Writing
http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/default.htm Dust echos is a online site created by the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Association). “Dust Echoes is a series of twelve beautifully animated dream time stories…
Online Timeline: Soft Schools
Posted in Classroom, Geography, History, History, Humanities/ Topics, and Literacy
Following on from yesterdays post, Soft Schools also have an online timeline generator which you can access here. This would be more suited to the…
Create online interactive time lines with Tiki-Toki
Posted in Classroom, Geography, History, History, Humanities/ Topics, and Literacy
Tiki Toki is an online timeline tool you can access the site here. This is a great FREE site which have great possibilities for the…
Hi everybody. I thought that today’s post I would blog about contractions and different tools which are available to help to consolidate this concept. I…
Stixy colloboration board
Posted in Classroom, General, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, and Web 2.0 tools
I posted previously about a website called Wall Wisher where you can add videos, text and pictures onto a virtual pinboard This tool stixty is similar…
Scribble maps
Posted in Classroom, Geography, History, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, and Maths
The website scribblemaps is fantastic. It allows you to access any Google map and then add icons, lines, shapes, information onto the map. These maps can…
Newspaper Creators
Posted in Character Development, Classroom, Comprehension, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Reading, Speaking and Listening, Spelling, Web 2.0 tools, and Writing
Yesterday I attended and presented at a very interesting discussion surrounding innovations in teaching and learning in higher education. It was a great day with lots of sharing of ideas. One of the discussions surrounded…
Today’s post is all about interactive alphabet letters which can be used on whiteboards, individual computers or iPads to model learning. http://www.abcya.com/alphabet_number_magnets.htm This game allows…
Word Search Junior and Word Search Senior
Posted in Classroom, Literacy, Phonics, Spelling, Teacher Resources, and Writing
http://www.abcya.com/word_search_jr.htm I love this website Abcya.com. Today’s tool comes from this site. Word search junior is a fantastic tool. There is a talking alligator who guides…
Sploder: Game Creation
Posted in Classroom, Creating, Featured, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Maths, Problem Solving, Speaking and Listening, Web 2.0 tools, and Writing
http://www.sploder.com/ Following on from yesterdays post about the benefits of game creation for learning, here is another great website. This is another website…