Learning Technologies Update
Focus on Literacy
Websites for Literacy
Here is a selection of websites to help with your literacy planning.
ENGAGE: Current Affairs for Students
This site has a great section on expositions.
The Literacy Shed
The Literacy Shed has an amazing array of resources to stimulate writing or discussion or simply to use as a stimulus.
Teaching AC English
TeachingACEnglish is a rich, practical and contemporary professional resource to support teachers and school leaders implementing the Australian Curriculum: English from Foundation to year 10.
This collection of video snapshots – or vignettes – illustrates ideas, approaches and strategies for teaching, learning and assessment.
The vignettes demonstrate approaches to differentiation and aspects of explicit teaching about a select group of content descriptions for reading, spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Reading Comprehension
The Reading Lady
The Reading Lady website has lots of resources for reading comprehension strategies and activities.
Inferring with Images
Inferring with Images is a site for Upper Primary to learn about inference via their own writing.
Sheena Cameron
Sheena Cameron's website has lots of downloadable resources for reading comprehension.
Apps for story creating
Toontastic
Lights, Camera, Play! Toontastic is a creative storytelling app that enables kids to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons with friends and family around the world.
Sonic Pics
SonicPics makes digital storytelling fun and easy! Turn your photographs into narrated slideshow movies to share with your family and friends!
Book Creator
The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBooks Store.
Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on.
Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on.