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I love iBoard

Jun30

I just love TES iBoard. They have a new literacy section where there are 136 activities. The best part? They are free to use.

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These activities range from narrative texts which explore familiar settings stories, fantasy science fiction and imaginary worlds, tradition tales fairy folk and fables, non fiction texts, phonics, sentence structure and punctuation to word work.

Familiar Setting Stories -characters, scenes and setting, story structure and pace.

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Fantasy, Science Fiction and Imaginary Worlds – characters and Scenes and settings.

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Traditional tales, fairy, folk  and fables - characters, scenes and setting, story structure and pace. Here you can find activities about Cinderella, The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks, The Gingerbread Man and The Little red Hen.

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Non Fiction Texts - information text, instructional/ procedural textsand labels lists and captions.There are activities that correlate with animals and birds, card designer,getting ready for the gym, plants and trees and many more.

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Phonics.-Generic letters and Sounds, other phonic approaches, Phase 1 to Phase - 6 Letters and Sounds

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Sentence Structure and Punctuation -Grammar , sentence structure

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Word Work- high frequency words, make your own templates, spelling rules and word families.

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BBC KS2 Bitesize

Apr29

Did you know that this terrific website http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/ allows you to embed their activities onto you own website?
Love it.
This is one of their reading activities.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/reading/dictionaries/play.shtml

Here is another
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/reading/dictionaries/play.shtml

What a terrific idea that BBC has come up with. This means that you can direct your students to the activity that you want them to do and it is always easy for them to find when on your website. The only thing is the game is very small. So i always include the link to the game as well.

Maybe some one who knows a lot about html and embedding could find a way to enlarge the games.

Live Binders Part 2

Apr12

I LOVE Livebinders. They are so easy to make. Just have a little bookmarklet in your browser window and off you go.

Here are some more that I have made to share with you.

Whenever I find a Livebinder that is useful I will add it to this Livebinder. there are some terrific ones out there that people have made.

A New Word Cloud – Tagxedo

Apr7

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There is another word cloud maker and it is awesome. TAGXEDO http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html

Here are some of the ways that you can make your word cloud. You can copy paste text or put in a URL.

Here is a poem that I found on the net and how it can be shown so many different ways. You also can save as an image.

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You can change colour, theme, shape, layout, font, and even add your own fonts.
When you hover your mouse over words thy highlight.

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Terrific addition to the word clouds and one i will be using often.

Please make sure that you read the comments as Hardy Leung Tagxedo creator lets you know more things you can do with tagxedo.