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Supporting Literacy with iPads
Primary
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Workshop slides
Download slides in PDF direct:
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Also available at Learning and Teaching with iPads blogpost: Supporting literacy with iPads in Primary
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Literacy rich environment
The iPad is one of many tools that can be used in the literacy rich classroom to stimulate, engage and provide personalised activities to support learners.
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Minimum of 100 minutes of literacy instruction per day
See OSCAR for Focus 160 strategy
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Resources
• Focus 160 strategy on OSCAR
• Mindful Learning Mindful Teaching Ning
• iPads for Literacy & Learning iBook
• Learning and Teaching with iPads
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Think aloudsScreencasting apps
• Educreations,
• ShowMe,
• ScreenChomp,
• Explain Everything
Mindmapping Apps
• eg Popplet,
• iCard sort
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Think alouds resource
Using Screenchomp, Dropbox and the iPads for Think Alouds (Youtube video)
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Visualising for comprehension
Read and Respond using Show Me on the iPads
In this example, students draw as teacher reads, and then record their voices telling about their visualisation (webpage).
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Purposeful talk
Use Apps like Safari, YouTube or specific Apps to engage students around the reading activity.
Real life Wonky Donkey Youtube video
Wonky Donkey ebook App
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Read aloudsUse the iPad as a visualiser
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Re-enact the story
• Puppet Pals
• Sock Puppets
• Video by the Camera App
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Re-enact the story
Animation
- Animation Creator HD
- Doink
Stop motion
- iMotion HD
- iStopMotion
- My Create
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Build letter awareness
• Mini Adventures - Lets Go and Learn the Aphabet
• rEd Writing
• iWW Lite
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Build vocabulary awareness
• Bits Board
• Sight Words List
• Phonics Genius
Highly customisable free Apps
- create own lists, insert own images and record audio.
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Reading on the iPad
Personalise to reading levels using Google Advanced search and utilise accessibility ‘Speak Selection’ function
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Reading on the iPad
Ebook Apps that read aloud, highlight words e.g., :
• Collins Big Cat Apps (free)
• Dr Seuss Book Apps
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Reading on the iPad
iBook store - Childrens and Young Adults category (samples for free)
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Finding quality eBook Apps
• Kirkus Review iPad Book Apps
• See Mindful Learning Mindful Teaching Ning
• Coming Term2/3 eBooks platform for our schools
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Pre-writing activities
Create visual stories using
• Play School Art Maker
• Feltboard
• Doodle Buddy,
• Skitch
• Strip Designer
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Build on concepts and understandings
Utilise Apps that can build on the topics or book being read
e.g., for a Rainforest or Australian Animals topic - you could use Wilderquest, Taronga Zoo (Monkey Mayhem or Rainforest Heroes) Apps
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Utilise the Ebscohost databases to find relevant newspapers and magazine articles about topics that can be delivered to students via their iPad.
• For students via Snet portal (https://snet.parra.catholic.edu.au)
• For staff via Staffnet - Resources - Library eResources
Build on concepts and understandings
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Find Australian Apps to support concept
buildingFind Australian Apps
• List of Australian Government Apps
• List of NSW Government Apps
• App store - ‘Made in Australia’ category
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Identify stages of the narrative
• Story Spine
• Toontastic
• Popplet
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Construct their own version of the text
• Scribble Press
• Book creator
• Creative Book Builder
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Workshop Activity
• Structure a literacy lesson utilising the iPad, Apps or a App that you have used today.
• Share your lesson with your colleagues.
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Additional resources
• Jones, Matthew. "iPads and Kindergarten Students' Literacy Development." SCAN: The Journal for Educators 31.4 (2012): 31-38. Print.
• Dawson, Wendy. "Students create ebooks." SCAN: The Journal for Educators 31.4 (2012): 15-20. Print.
www.scan.nsw.edu.au
Scan Journal available at Learning Exchange or at most school libraries.
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Additional resources
• iPad Apps for Guided Reading by Jane Farrall
• iSpy a Story by TechChef4U - example of school using Spine Story
• The iTraits of Character by TechChef4U - 6th graders using Sock Puppets to support character analysis/development
• Writing and publishing with Creative Book Builder from Learning and Teaching with iPads
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Additional resources• Hutchison, Amy. "Exploring the Use of the IPad for Literacy
Learning." The Reading Teacher 66.1 (2012): 15-23. Web. 22 Mar. 2013.
Wondering how iPads measure up as a tool for literacy learning? This fourth-grade teacher explored the use of iPads to help her teach print-based literacy skills while providing students with the opportunityto learn digital literacy skills.
• Margareth, Sandvik, Smerdal Ole, and Osterud Svein. "Exploring iPads in Practitioners 'Repertoires for Language Learning And Literacy Practices in Kindergarten." Nordic Journal of Digial Literacy 7.3 (2012): 204-220. Web. 23 Mar. 2013.
Explores the role of the iPad and a shared display as extensions of a practitioner’s repertoire for language
learning and literacy practices in a multicultural kindergarten multicultural kindergarten.
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Lisa Nash - Learning Exchange, Catholic Education, Diocese of [email protected]
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