ICT for Teaching, Learning & Assessment

Summer Course 2015

Module Two
Session One
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PDST Technology in Education 2015

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Literacy and Numeracy Strategy

Literacy for Learning and Life
Literacy includes the ability to use and
understand spoken language, print, writing
and digital media
(Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life, 2011)

Elements of Literacy
ICT to Support the Reading Process

How can ICT be used to support each element of the

reading process as outlined in the image above?

Developing Comprehension Strategies

Summarising
Visualising
Questioning
Evaluating
Prior Knowledge
Synthesising
Making Connections
Inferring

Comprehension strategies can be defined as the mental

processes that good readers use to understand text
(Pardo: 2004)

Comprehension Strategies
Into the Book

Teacher Page Task: Investigate the teacher resource

page. Could you apply these resources to your own
teaching of comprehension strategies?

Into the Book

Sample Student Activities
Task One: Inferring Activity
Historical Photo
Task Two: Making Connections
The Mountain of Understanding
Task Three: Strategies Together
A Frogs Tale
http://reading.ecb.org/student/entry.html

Oxford Owl for

Reading
Key Features

Oxford Owl is a complete eBook collection that can

be searched by age, series, book type or book
brand.
Task: Register for a free teacher account at
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/

Oxford Owl &

Comprehension Strategies

How could you use Oxford Owl to develop some of

these literal, inferential and evaluative reading skills
outlined above?

Oxford Owl
Activity
Class Account
Please log into your newly created
Oxford Owl account.
To create a class login to access the
eBook collection simply create a class
username and password.
Return to the home screen in Oxford
Owl and use the My Class Login
feature to access the pupil page
before trialing an eBook with
activities.

Oxford Owl
Reading Comprehension Tasks
What class level would this online reader be appropriate
for? Which comprehension strategies could you teach
whilst reading this book with your own class ?
What follow on activities in terms of writing would you
undertake with your class after reading this online
book?
Did you explore the vocabulary glossary and related
reading materials at the end of the book?
Would you recommend the resources to parents of
pupils in your own classroom?

Oxford Owl
Further Free Resources

Oxford Owl: Home

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-owl/reading

Fun Ideas: Age Appropriate Extension Activities

Kids Barn: Interactive Pupil Activities
Storyteller Videos: Recounting Favourite Texts
Expert Help: Support and Guidance for Teachers

A Wider Range of Online Reading Materials

See http://ngexplorer.cengage.com/ngyoungexplorer/readstory.html for

informative, factual and engaging interactive reading materials.
See http://www.southdublinlibraries.ie/childrens-zone/tumblebooks for a
wide range of fiction and non-fiction reading materials for small group,
station or whole-class work.

Group Reflection
Reading Comprehension Materials

How could you use the online resources that you have seen this morning in
your own classroom?
Could you use any of these materials so as to extend online learning into
the home environment?
Can you find three other relevant resources for reading related classroom
activities taken from http://interactivesites.weebly.com/language-arts.html
Share these online resources with colleagues in the wider group outlining
how each site could add to teaching and learning.

The Writing Process

The Writing Genres

The Writing Process

Write for different purposes and for different audiences
Learn to edit and refine writing and develop a sense of
appropriate presentation
Share writing and responses to reading experiences
with other children and adults
Organise, clarify, interpret and extend experience
through writing
(Primary Curriculum:1999:18)

Writing Genres
A Structured Approach
Recount

Narrative

Explanatory

Report

Procedural

PDST Writing Genres Booklet

Persuasive

Read, Write & Think

Student Interactives
www.readwritethink.org provides free
interactive tools that allow pupils to

Learn about language in order to

summarise and organise their
ideas.
Write various forms of poetry such
as acrostic, haiku and diamante.
Structure their writing in line with
the characteristics of various writing
genres e.g. persuasive or
procedural writing.
Write, draft and publish pieces of
independent classroom writing.

Persuasive Writing Genre

Read, Write & Think

http://www.pdst.ie/node/588

Group Task One: Sample: Which do you like better and

why? Christmas v Summer!
Reflection & Extension: How did the online persuasion
map structure your writing piece?

Report Writing Genre

Cube Creator

Group Task One: Using Britannica School and Cube Creator can you
create a Bio Cube on the life of Nelson Mandela? In this task we are asking
you to

Research, investigate and summarise information on Britannica

Use your information to create a written piece in Cube Creator
What other genres could you publish work with using this resource

Group Reflection
ICT & Literacy

From this session which resource(s) would you share

with a colleague in your own school?
How would you use ICT to develop oral language in
your own classroom?
We will look at developing oral language resources and
digital storytelling resources in the next session.