Reading

=Literacy in an ICT Environment  = = = =Say It! Read it! Write IT! =

[|The New Readers]

[|Digital Literacy]

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[|World of Stories]

Cartoons Scrap blogging Multimedia Photo Story3 PP Kidpix Paint Comic Life

Questionaut Samarost Myst

Book retelling with own images

[|Writing and ICT suggestions]

Reading Comprehension Strategies

 * Activating prior knowledge
 * self monitoring
 * Predicting
 * Questioning
 * Making Connections
 * Inferring
 * Visualising
 * Summarising
 * Synthsising
 * Skimming
 * Scanning
 * Vocabulary knowledge

Deliberate Acts of Teaching
= = =**Possible Outcomes of Reading**=
 * Draw a digram in Kidpix, Word, PPT [|Yummy Dinner] || [|Create a timeline of events] || Prepare and perform an interview of the main character or an expert on the topic

[|Earthrace] || Read 6 word memoirsand then choose a photo and create a 6 word memoir Add your own photo || Read and respond to other class blogs || Contribute to a themed class wiki || [|Create an animation to retell the story in Pivot] or other animation programme
 * [|Create a play from a narrative and perform as Readers' Theatre] || Contribute to class blog

[|The Three Little Pigs] || [|A spider documentary]
 * Retell the story in 5 frames || Create a movie / make a documentary of non fiction text

[|Whaling Documentary] || Create a[| flowchart]of the story

Link to an [|online flowchart tool] || Use a Venn diagram to compare and contract characters or books ||
 * Create a pic a path story in PPT || Retell the story in another setting || Contribute to a [|class voicethread] || Retell the story from another point of view

Haven't found one but love this story of [|Goldilocks] told by a 4 year old ||
 * Create a word search of key words || Complete a [|webquest] with your group || Find 3 sites that will give you more information on a non fiction theme || Write 3 things you have learnt and 2 questions for further investigation ||

Reading Reading Everywhere

There was an old lady

===[|Ideas to Inspire]- is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world. ===

==[|Suzie's links] - Suzie has collected a wide range of reading resources here. General reading resources, stories online, resources for specific texts, Harry Potter, other texts and authors==

**Junior**
[|Starfall]- I like [|It's All About Me] [|Peter Rabbit] - FInd out about the characters and watch short clips [|PowerPoint Resources] - Scroll down to the nursery rhymes. Lots of ideas here [|Language Skill Builders] - Word families, synonyms, spelling, sequencing and more [|Magnetic Rhymes] - Move the words around to make a sentence [|Phonics] - A lot of links here to a range of activities [|Little Red Riding Hood]- Listen to the story or turn sound off and use as shared reading. Includes lots of follow up activities [|Alphabet Puzzles]- And more [|Literacy Games] - rhymes, letter recognition, blends [|Blending Bingo] - Download thee bingo cards and you're ready to go [|Spelling Bee]- Story with Cloze format, reads the story and repeats words for you to spell. Choose appropriate level ==[|Roy the Zebra] has lots of fun interactive reading games here. Practice alphabetical order, double consonets, high frequency words, plurals and rhyming words.== [|Carl's Corner] - Alphabet, Word families, Word study, write spell [|Reading Activities]- putting words together, letter sounds, rhymes, letter recognition
 * [|Coconut Vowels] ||

**Shared Stories**
[|Short Stories] - Listen to the story or turn sound off and use as shared reading. Includes lots of follow up activities [|Longer stories] - [|Online Talking Stories] - Choose from a large range [|Little Red Riding Hood] [|Story Online] [|Tumble Books] - Read and listen online
 * [|Jack and the Beanstalk] ||

**Senior**
[|Reading Matrix] - Create your own cloze- instructions here [|Into the book] - Reading Comprehension resource [|Synonym Toast]- Choose words that are similar in meaning [|Synonym Hangman] - [|Synonyms] [|Phonics] - A lot of links here to a range of activities [|Wacky Wordsearch] - or create your own [|here]Or here at [|Puzzlemaker Online] [|Literacy Activities] - punctuation and parts of speech [|Base Word Baseball] [|Spelling Bee]- Story with Cloze format, reads the story and repeats words for you to spell. Choose appropriate level [|Comprehension Upgrade] - Interactive demo site where students can learn about author's purpose, finding the main idea, use context clues to solve unknown words etc

Class Projects es1001tales - Join with other classes to tell a story [|Story Starters] - Spin the wheel to create a story starter Classroom Book Talk - Read book lists, book reviews and you can add your own Monster Projects- Write a description and get your partner to draw in Kidpix or Paint 5 Frame Storytelling- Explore telling a story though photography. See instructions and examples here. You need to join [|flickr] to upload photos [|Webquest Search] - A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. Scroll down to search the matrix, Select K 2-5 for Juniors and K 6 - 8 for seniors. American based, be selective [|Places We Will Go] - The Places We Will Go Project will be hosted between April 13 - May 8, 2009

And many more activities here at EALC Teachers Resource