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Activity
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Description
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Downloads
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Writing |
Discussion of delegates’ own experiences of ICT and
writing |
Homophones |
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PH |
Calligrams Y3 T1 T13 |
Download the file "WORDS", select text and change fonts and
font effects to generate 'calligrams'. Avoid the use of WordArt for this
activity.
Select text using:
- click and drag
- double-click
- triple-click
- Shift + arrow
Choose Font from the Format menu.
Use Ctrl +[ or ]To change the size of selected text incrementally. |
Words |
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Text marking Y3 T1 T2
Y3 T2 T1
Y4 T1 T1
Y4 T3 T3 (paras)
Y3 T1 T7
Y4 T2 T7 |
Highlight speakers from text.
Look at the three levels of differentiation
of same text, discuss whether the differentiation is Literacy or ICT based.
This activity can be used to highlight other areas, and
gives children great opportunities for developing their investigations of
texts. It also gives you clear opportunities for assessment.
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Above Average
Group Average
group
Below average group
Poetry |
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PH |
Thesaurus Y3 T2 W17
Y3 T2 W18 |
Word surfing Access the thesaurus tool by RH
clicking over a word.
Repeatedly change words to alter the text. How far can you get from the
original meaning? |
She
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Inserting photographs
Y3 T2 T16
Y4 T1 T25Y5 T1 T25 |
Make Instruction writing come alive!
Think of the Magic tricks video, there are a range
of activities that you could photograph - origami, PE, DT etc... |
Magic trick -
coins |
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PH |
Cut copy and paste
Y3 T2 W23 |
Download the file 'alphabet animals'. Use cut and paste to
put the animals into alphabetical order. Cut and paste via:
- RH click
- toolbars
- edit menu
- Ctrl + x and Ctrl + v
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Alphabet animals |
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WL |
Y3 T1 T1 T2
Y3 T2 T1 T2
Y3 T3 T2
Y4 T1 T1 T2
Y4 T2 T2 T4 T10
Y4 T3 T3
Y5 T1 T1 T3 T13
Y5 T2 W11
Y5 T3 T2
Y6 T1 T3
Y6 T2 W6 S1
Y6 T3 T7 T8
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Copy and pasting in to writing journal
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The Miller of
Chester-le-Street
On-line writing
journal
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Page layout
Y5 T1 T24
Y6 T1 T15 T16 |
Changing font, case and attributes according to newspaper
conventions
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News |
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Find
Y3 T2 W6 (d)
Y3 T3 W8
Y3 T3 W9
Y4 T1 W7
Y4 T3 W6 W7 S1
Y5 T1 W5
Y5 T2 W5 W7
Y5 T3 W5
Y6 T1 W5
Y6 T2 W4
Y6 T3 W4 |
Using find to support a spelling investigation by
identifying letter strings within a text. Talk about how you would use this.
Is this more suited to a whole class activity, paired work or individual
work.
You can use this activity for word level objectives:
analogy with other words
words within words
affixes
verb endings
common letter strings
word roots
plurals
spelling rules |
The water
horse |
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PH |
Find and replace Y3 T1 S3c
Y3 T2 T9
Y4 T1 S3
Y4 T2 T1
Y4 T2 T13
Y5 T1 S4
Y5 T2 T11
Y5 T3 T9
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Download the file 'The Iron Man'. Change his gender and
material by basic editing. Use 'Find' from the edit menu to scan read the
text.
Use 'Find' and 'Replace' to change his material globally. Try the same
gender specific pronouns, what happens to 'he'.
Explore the features behind the 'More' button, particularly 'Find whole
words only'.
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The Iron Man |
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Find and replace Y3 T1
S7 S11 S12
Y3 T3 S4
Y4 T2 S2
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Preparing resources by removing punctuation. Children to
read and replace # with ! or ? |
The boy bathing (full stops)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
(exclamation and question marks)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
(exclamation and question marks, full stops and commas) |
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Spelling checkers |
Discussion
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Word count
Y3 T1 T21
Y3 T2 T17
Y3 T3 T23
Y4 T1 T11 T24
Y4 T2 T21
Y4 T3 T24
Y5 T1 S1 T26
Y5 T3 T 16
Y6 T1 T14 T18
Y6 T2 T19
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Condensing text
Aesop’s fable. Use the word count
feature from the 'tools' menu. Condense the text by removing superfluous
words. Can you strip it down to less than 50 word whilst still retaining its
meaning?
How could this lead to role play in Y4, 5 and Y6 work on journalistic
writing? |
The Wolf and the shepherd
journalistic writing |
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PH |
Tracking changes
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How and why Tracking Changes works.
Download the file Draft2 and either accept or reject the suggested
changes. |
Draft1 Draft2 |
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Using Tracking Changes in Literacy
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Extract from
Little Squirt |
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Pulling it together |
Editing work. Change from level 4 to 5 |
Moving a Level 3 piece of work to Level
4 Moving a Level 4 piece of work to Level 5 |
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Reading |
Discussion of delegates’ own experiences of ICT and
reading.
ICT and Literacy CD ROM Independent activities and Guided reading |
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Exploring ICT texts |
Working in pairs look at these texts How could you use them to support
shared and guided reading sessions?
Discussion of the
distinction between genre and medium. |
BBC Newsround
BBC News
Alton Towers
compare with paper flyers.
The
wives of King Henry VIII
Non-fiction e.g. planetary motion.
Non-fiction flyers |
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Using ICT texts for guided reading |
Look at the sites links considering the following
objectives for guided reading
Y3 T1 T18 Use contents, indexes, headings,
sub-headings, page numbers
and bibliographies to locate information
Y3 T2 T12 Identify the varying purposes of
instructional texts
Y3 T2 T13 Discuss the merits and
limitations of particular instructional
texts
Y4 T1 T20 Identify the main
features of newspapers including lay out,
range of information, voice, level of formality, organisation of
articles, advertisements and headlines
Y4 T2 T17 Scan texts in print or
on screen to find key words / phrases,
useful headings and significant sentences. Use these as an aid
to summarising
Y5 T1 T21 Identify the features
of recounted texts such as sports reports,
diaries etc
T5 T1 T22 Read / evaluate a range
of instructional texts
Y5 T3 T14 Compare examples of eg
newspaper comment, headlines,
adverts, fliers and other persuasive writing
Y6 T1 T11 Distinguish between
biography and autobiography
Y6 T1 T12 Comment critically upon
examples of non fiction such as
periodicals, reviews, reports, leaflets
Y6 T2 T17 Study / understand
examples of official language and its
characteristic features
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Web site list |
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PH |
Pasting pictures and text from he web |
How to paste pictures and text into Word from Internet Explorer
In a Web browser window click the RH mouse button over a picture and choose
'Copy'.
Swap to the Word window and paste from the Edit menu.
Use Alt + Tab to swap windows quickly.
In a Web browser window select text by dragging. Click the RH mouse
button over the selection and choose 'Copy'.
Again, swap to the Word window and paste from the Edit menu. |
Web site list |
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Practicalities |
Discussion of the practical issues encountered when
introducing ICT into the Literacy Hour. |
Practicalities |
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www.standards.dfes.gov.uk |
The Standards Site |
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www.twiyo.net/~literacy |
The World is your Oyster
The home site of the Nottinghamshire Literacy Team |
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Lobster useful web links |
Lobster web links
The lengthy collection of web sites from the Literacy team's web site.
Some of the sites will support ICT and Literacy as well as 20th
Century Literacy! |
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www.ncaction.org.uk |
National Curriculum in Action
An ever growing exemplification of standards in all subject areas useful for
teacher knowledge as well as examples of levelled work for use with children. |
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www.bbc.co.uk/education |
BBC
Education
The BBC
website contains over half a million pages of news, entertainment and
factual material. There's also a wealth of educational programmes available
across the BBC's TV and radio channels.
The BBC Learning homepage is designed to help you find web sites, TV and
radio programmes which will help you as a teacher find resources and
practical ideas as well as new sites. |
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BBC Webguide
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A
fairly exhaustive list of educational web sites including some which offer
ideas for teaching sequences that you can put into your planning.
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http://www.primaryresources.co.uk
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Primary
Resources
A old favourite, this site has a wide range of ideas and resources to use,
as well as links to school web sites with excellent examples of KS2 ICT and Literacy
work.
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http://www.resourcekt.co.uk/
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Resource
Resource; the publisher of 'I Can Write2' |
www.teem.org.uk
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Teachers Evaluating Educational Multimedia
Teachers' evaluations of educational multimedia.
Reviews of websites and CD ROMs. |
www.easytype.com
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Easytype
Free of charge web-based typing tutor. This is
an American site and so is best accessed in the mornings. |
http://www.ajkids.com
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Ask Jeeves for kids
Child friendly search engine (US) |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/laac/
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Little animals activity
centre
A wonderful site aimed at 5-7 year olds with some of the best interactive
stories available |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/schools/digger/
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Digger and the gang
Another wonderful educational but fun site with activities to support
literacy work.
Aimed at three age groups 5-7 years, 7-9 years and 9-11 years. |
http://www.childrenstory.com/
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Children story
A collection of audio stories, useful for an ICT based listening centre,
also includes links to fantasy stories written by the web master |
http://www.ers.cqm.co.uk/rlinks/linaut.htm
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Author links page
An impressive collection of links to the home sites of a wide range of
authors |
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http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour
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The
Internet Public Library
A range of simple stories that are aimed at Foundation and KS1 children,
some are simply illustrated, others are animated with audio |
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http://kotn.ntu.ac.uk
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Kids on the Net
A super site, Kids on the Net features writing by children at
home and at school all over the world and has wonderful pages to motivate
the children to write. Make sure that you take a look at the Kid's Castle |
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http://www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk
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The
Poetry Zone
a fun and interactive site run by Roger Stephens, a local poet |
http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org/
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Stories from the Web
Online fiction |
http://www.twiyo.net/~literacy/boys_and_literacy/boys_web_index.html
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Boys and Literacy
Extensive list of boy friendly web sites to support children's Literacy |
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http://www.curriculumonline.gov.uk/Curriculum%20OnLine/default.htm |
Curriculum Online
Curriculum Online is a one-stop online catalogue of digital learning
resources.
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Web sites to support planning with Writing in Context:
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