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Literacy

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The Literacy Framework has a section devoted to ICT ideas: ICT Applications.

This zipped file contains a summary of the units with explicit reference to children's use of ICT: Literacy ICT Links.zip

 

Poetry

Children's Poetry Archive - a marvellous collection of poems, information about poets and recordings of poets reading their own poems.

Poetry Archive

 

Films for Literacy

Great ideas and resources from Filmstreet.

British Film Institute

"Look Again" - a fantastic free book to download with film teaching ideas.

Screen Online - access within school to clips from a range of movies

Sph3re - animations, short films and trailers to download

BBC Learning Zone

ITunes - download the software to have access to a huge number of video podcasts.

Eurocreator - films from children and teachers (where you can upload your own)

Films for Learning - films from children and teachers (where you can upload your own)

TeacherTube - films created by teachers for teachers

Of course, there is always YouTube. Your school can arrange for teachers to have password-protected access to this in school. If not, Zamzar is a great way to download and save movies from Youtube. Choose URL, paste the web address in the first box, select to save as AVI and the site will email a link for you to download your video. Really easy and quick!

 

Interactive Whiteboards 

 

Children's ICT in Literacy

 

If you use 2Simple software, they have documents with lesson ideas for each of the Literacy Framework units.

See the Word Processing and Multimedia, Graphics and Digital Video, Online Communication and Music and Sound sections of this site.

Ictopus Lessons 2 Go: Literacy

Myths & Legends:  A fantastic collection of myths & legends. Create your own myth.

Comic Life is a fantastic easy-to-use comic creator tool. It's free for 30 days, which is enough for your first project, after which it's very reasonably priced.

Vocaroo is a great site for recording your voice and sending it as an email.

IBoard - 70 free activities. If your school registers you can have 30 more, with others very cheaply.

 

 

Online Big Books

Woodlands Junior's site linking to online talking stories.

Fiction & Narrative Big Books: Good selection of KS1 & KS2 online big books. 

 

Phonics

Kent ICT site 

ICT Games

Digby Mole from the Little Animals Activity Centre

NGFL Cymru Phonics activities

BBC Words and Pictures

BBC KS1 Bitesize

LCF Clubs

CLLD Website Phonics resources for Interactive Whiteboard (in Smart Notebook format or as Flash versions)

Whiteboard Active

Hanging Monkeys - for CVC words

Seaside Flags - for CVC words

 

Spelling

Look cover write check

A collection of spelling games from Woodlands Junior School.

Spelling City - type your spelling words then play a choice of games to practise them.

BBC Spellits

Spellbound - dragging and dropping letters.

Coconut Vowels - for practising long vower phonemes

Interactive Spelling Bee- listening to words then spelling them in context

 

Dance Mat Typing

 

Suggested texts

Letterbox Library - resources for multicultural and non-sexist books

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