PicLit - Visual literacy prompts and lesson plans for writing. 40 ideas and activities for literacy groups. Tips for Teaching Literacy We all know that the ability levels of the students in our classrooms vary greatly!
When teaching literacy, in order to differentiate the learning of their students, most teachers will plan and develop weekly literacy rotations to meet the needs of each ability level, using a variety of literacy skills and activities. This blog article provides hints and tips on how to set up literacy groups in your classroom and provides you with a range of activities that are useful to use at each literacy station. Make your classroom buzz! Create a free Teach Starter account and download hundreds of time-saving resources. Setting up English / Literacy Groups Firstly, place your students into ability groups. Once I had the groups, I developed a display board which clearly showed the groups and the activities using a group activity spinning wheel.
English Units - Copacabana Public School. Interactive Nursery Rhymes from Topmarks - Prep, Kinder and Year 1. CBeebies Nursery RhymesTablet-friendly A collection of nursery rhymes from the BBC such as The Wheels on the Bus, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Old MacDonald Had a Farm and more.
The Wheels on the BusFlash This delightfully animated song is bound to be a favourite with young children. You can print out the lyrics too. Click the icon to view full screen. The Animal FairFlash Sing along to the song and video clip of the nursery rhyme 'The Animal Fair'. Brush Your TeethFlash Sing along with this catchy little animated song to help you to remember to clean your teeth. Five Currant BunsFlash Sing along with this jolly, animated song with lyrics which you can print out if required. Five Little MonkeysFlash An animated version of the popular children's song. Five Little Speckled FrogsFlash An animated song which can help children to count and count back from 5. Cobbler, CobblerFlash An animated song of the nursery rhyme 'Cobbler, Cobbler mend my Shoe'. Down at the StationFlash. Interactive Fairytales from Topmarks - Prep, Kinder and Year 1.
Jack and the BeanstalkTablet-friendly Listen to or read the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.
Excellent animation. Little Red Riding HoodTablet-friendly A delightfully animated story of this traditional fairy tale. OnButterflyWings - Teaching text types. Pobble 365 - Daily writing stimulus. Readability checker - Calculates approximate reading age of a passage. Our Automatic Readability Checker takes a sample of your writing and calculates the number of sentences, words, syllables, and characters in your sample.
Our program takes the output of these numbers and plugs them into seven popular readability formulas. These readability formulas (see below) will let you know the reading level and grade level of your text and help you determine if your audience can read your writing. (Note: We also have separate readability tools to calculate grade levels using the Fry Graph, Raygor Estimate Graph, Spache Formula, and New Dale-Chall Formula, located here: Free Readability Calculators and Text Tools).
Directions: Paste in a sample of text and click "CHECK TEXT READABILITY. " A sufficient sample size consists of 4-5 full sentences; approximately 200 - 600 words total. Paste a sample of plain text in the box. Our free readability formula tool will analyze your text and output the results based on these readability formulas. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Reading Australia - Free resources for many texts written by Australian authors.
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They live next door to each other. When they want to play they call… Teacher Resource Are We There Yet? Join Grace and her family on their adventurous and sometimes funny expedition. Teacher Resource Ash Road It's hot, dry and sweaty on Ash Road, where Graham, Harry and Wallace are getting their first taste … Teacher Resource The Big Book of Old Tom Angela Throgmorton lives alone and likes it that way. Teacher Resource Big Rain Coming A lyrical story about waiting for the rain to come to an isolated Aboriginal community. ReadWriteThink. Storyline Online. SuperEasyStorytelling – Creative writing for kids. TeachStarter - Visual literacy prompts. Writing Prompts Ideas Sebastian was no ordinary cat.
His dream was to… Five Ws and One H Who is the character? Where is the character? Suggested Activities Use the illustration as stimulus for a narrativeDescribe what you seeComplete a story board template All Visual Writing Prompt images are licenced under Creative Commons Zero which means you can copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing attribution to the photographer.
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