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The Box of Cherries
www.active.com
Count Us In : http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/default.htm
Games designed to help children understand basic number concepts.

The Box of Cherries
www.active.com
Count Us In : http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/default.htm
Games designed to help children understand basic number concepts.

This unit is interactive and focuses on community.
www.tki.org.nz

Using a keyboard to identify lower and upper case letters- familar with where the letters are on the keyboard.
Take photos of items around the school and associate with the letter to extend letter knowledge
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use their developing phonemic awareness to aurally identify and distinguish individual phonemes within words
www.Starfall.com
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/protected/objects/?id=7853&vers=1.0
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/protected/objects/?id=7855&vers=1.0
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Various language activities.
Supported by relevant offline experience select according to needs and interests of the learner. As part of a literacy taskboard for each group.
monitor their own reading and self-correct when necessary by applying fix-up strategies, e.g., adjusting reading pace, reading on, or checking other sources of information
Using a webcamera
www.vocaroo.com
Students read into the digital camera to either: set goals, share with others, as a record of progress.
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As they write, students build on their expertise and demonstrate that they:
Literacy Progressions
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/protected/objects/?id=7862&vers=1.0
Students in small groups, or a spart of literacy rotation
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Able to hear words endings
Word Pictures

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Starting School
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As they read, students build on their expertise and demonstrate that they:
Nursery Rhymes comes with music but no read along. Teachers can print out a copy of the lyrics to send home with child.
You tube nursery rhymes to sing along with and words can be read down the bottom.
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Be able to describe different sizes and shapes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb9Zn8dzL1k&feature=channel
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/wordfamily/
Children select a letter and sort the related word families
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http://www.manythings.org/wbg/prefixes-jw.html
Drag the right prefix to what it means
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Work out the meanings of new words by using strategies such as: applying knoweldge of the meanings of most common prefixes
http://www.saintambrosebarlow.wigan.sch.uk/Y4Spelling/suffixes2y4.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/spelling_grammar/spelling/play.shtml
As a part of reading tumble activity for groups.
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Using reference sources to find meaning of words (dictionary, thesaurus)
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/info_station/index.php
http://www.onelook.com/
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Use and integrate a variety of comprehension strategies to mee their purpose for reading
http://www.grainvalley.k12.mo.us/gvsd/eagle_resources/readingskills.html
The first site has a range of links to other sites about Reading Comprehension. The second is soley dedicated to reading comprehension
Recognise the features and purposes of different text types and use this knowledge to navigate and understand texts
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/writingfun/writingfun.html {97398714} writngfun.jpg{writngfun.jpg}
Features of text types in right column identified against examples on the site. Use as part of text deconstruction with class and group teaching.
With IWB, display shared writing/text models, reading/writing groups able to identify features of text