Labels: Teddy A basic numeral recognition activitiy. Develop your mouse control and number skills by matching number digits to words in the 1 to 10 range. © v2vtraining.co.uk An initial sounds phonic activity that develops the link between letters and the initial sounds of some common objects. A counting and numeral recognition set of activities. Colouring and matching activity. Use the Simple Scales to weigh the bears. Dressing for the Weather is a drag and drop dressing activity. A drag and drop alien making activity to develop mouse control skills and to develop language. Drag and drop fun with the Scary Spuds. Drag and drop the names of the single digit numbers on to the picture. Drag and drop the names of the colours on to the picture. This simple labelling activity can be used to reinforce the idea of labels and as a framework for children to begin to add their own captions and labels to familiar scenes such as a teddy bear's picnic.picnic lesson outline
Using Voicethread for Writing Ideas and for Peer Marking In the past week or so our literacy work has focused on a short sequence from the comic Spiderman #1. Our Superheroes topic is going well and in this post I explain how we have used Voicethread as a creation tool, a writing scaffold and as a way to do peer marking. We began with the sequence in the comic where Peter is attending a science fair at a local school and is bitten by spider that has been zapped by one of the radiation machines on show. I wanted the short 5 panel sequence to be the focus of an extended narrative. I liked the tight focus on a few moments and the action and comic imagery would really help us to write some interesting narrative. To begin with we made some notes about the short sequence as a whole class, mainly key words, things that just jumped out from the images and from the facial expressions of Peter. The next step was to import the five panels from the comic you can see in the above image into Voicethread. In short the sequence looked like this:
Dr. Seuss’s Sound Words: Playing with Phonics and Spelling ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us. If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice Boom! back to top Sound Observation Chart: Students can use this chart to spell out sounds they hear on a Website and record related information. Spelling Observation Checklist: Use this checklist to assess the strategies students use as they write out the sound words they hear. Playing with the meaning and spelling of sounds comes easily to children. Further Reading Laminack, Lester L., and Katie Wood. 1996.
Strip Designer Be creative wherever you go. With Strip Designer you can create your own personal comic strip right on your iPhone or iPad. Add photos from your photo album or draw your own sketches. Apply simple image filters to increase the impact of photos, and add speech balloons Add advanced textual elements and stickers to get that genuine comic book feel. While you edit your comic you can freely zoom and pan to manipulate even small details. Templates Strip Designer includes more than 100 different layout templates that you can use to insert your photos in. You begin by picking a layout for each page, but the layout is easy to change after you have added text and photos. Photos Inserting photos is straight-forward. Once a photo has been inserted you can manipulate its appearance You can position it accurately by dragging it with one finger.You can enlarge it by pinching with two fingers.You can even rotate it by pointing it at it with two fingers and rotate -- Just as you would in real life. Filters
Story Wheel Spin the wheel and land on an image. Now it's your turn to make up part of a story with that image. You'll have 30 seconds to record your voice as you add to the story. As you progress, the previous images are displayed on the side so you can keep track of the storyline. Your voice is played back with the images you spun. Each page of the story lists the speaker and shows the animated image that was spun.
Traditional Tale; KS1 Drag and drop the names of the classroom items on to the picture. The name box will turn green if correctly placed. Drag and drop the names of the animals on to the picture. The name box will turn green if correctly placed. Find and select the letters in the correct order to make the word. The Word Wheel 2 is multimedia tool for pupils to explore and develop their skill at blending phonemes in words with clusters.WW2 lesson outline Drag and drop the names of the fruits on to the picture. Drag and drop the names of the types of transport on to the picture. Drag and drop the names of the vegetables on to the picture. A drag and drop matching quiz based on descriptions of objects from around the home. This Alphabetical order activity is a simple to use word ordering exercise. This simple labelling activity can be used for either the Three Little Pigs or Cinderella as a backdrop for their sceneScenes lesson outline The CVC maker is a simple to use application.
About - Digital Library Articles › English/Lang Arts 4th Grade English from Ms. Naugle Description VoiceThread enabled my students to put their poems out in an audio format to be shared with others. Process/Assignment I have used The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown for years and had my students write poems in the format she presents in her book. Content and Substance Write a poem based on the pattern established in Margaret Wise Brown's The Important Book. Organization of Knowledge Read The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown to the students. Product Focus Students and their shoulder partner will use their assigned laptop to write their final draft using Word. Challenges or setbacks Easiest: My students loved writing their poems. Hardest: The hardest part was putting the VoiceThread together. Tools As part of this lesson I used an IWB (interactive whiteboard), an LCD projector, and several websites. Tips Make a sample three or four page VoiceThread first. Variations I adapted this lesson for my math classes.
Photo Story The final free download version (3.0) includes the ability to randomly generate background music which is composed on the fly from a combination of themes and also includes basic photo editing and touchup features.[2] The last version of Photo Story (3.1) was included with the discontinued Microsoft Digital Image 2006. It restored the ability to burn a Video CD using the Sonic Burning engine. To burn CDs or DVDs from files generated by version 3.0, users may purchase Sonic MyDVD DVD burning software or the Sonic DVD for Photo Story 3 for Windows [3] plug in (which burns one DVD per Story). Third party tools, such as Media Coder, often do a very poor (low quality) job of converting Photo Story wmv files - Windows Movie Maker does a far better job of converting into an intermediate .avi format (although this will be some 30 times larger than the original wmv) which many DVD Authoring packages will accept as input. History[edit] Limitations[edit] Photo Story in pop culture[edit]
Five Card Flickr Digital Storytelling - Handout Smories - new stories for children, read by children The 5 Levels of Digital Storytelling By kylemawer It’s our pleasure to introduce a guest blog post by James Taylor, who has been adapting gaming elements (such as leveling up) and applying them to digital storytelling. Thanks, James for a very interesting blog post and loads of great web links and resources which you’ll find near the end – Some of them we’re familiar with here at Digital play but we can’t wait to dip into all the others. When we think of introducing web-based tools into our classrooms, as teachers we often obsess over the technical side of things. We are not wrong to consider these things, whether we teach kids or adults. In this article, I will demonstrate how you can increase the levels of complexity both technically and linguistically in web-based storytelling by using tools that ask more of your students at each stage. Level One – Mad Libs Mad Libs is a very basic parlour game popular in North America. Level One web-links
Story Starters: Creative Writing Prompts for Kids If you’re looking to inspire your students’ writing and creativity, turn to these fun and exciting writing prompts. Perfect for overcoming writer’s block or even starting a brand-new short story in a different narrative, creative writing prompts can help students begin a new piece with confidence. Plus, these story starters can also encourage students to explore different genres while honing their writing skills. There are a lot of ways you can use writing prompts in your classroom. Reading a book in a genre, then having students use a story starter in that same genre. Take inspiration from classics like Treasure Island and newer popular series like The Bad Guys to explore how to write thrilling adventure stories. You’re part of a pirate crew in search of a long-lost storied treasure trove. Get students excited about adventure stories with these great books: If you’re looking to inspire your students’ writing and creativity, turn to these fun and exciting writing prompts.