ICT Links: The information around us is accessed in different ways.
Ways of navigating through menus to locate required section.

For these exercises you will need to install Flash player 6, which is completely free and quick to download. If it is not on your machine a message should come up automatically, otherwise to get the Flash player please click here.

Traditional Tales

In this section pupils can help to write a ‘new’ traditional tale, by choosing details to add into the story. The tales contain all the elements of traditional tales that they will have met in shared or guided reading – hero or heroine, good and bad characters, unlikely events and, of course, those traditional beginnings and endings.

These can be used as extension work for more able pupils, or included as part of your ICT programme for all children.

Teaching Ideas

• Print out stories for class book or display.
• Ask children to display their knowledge of traditional tales by printing their story and highlighting typical language.
• Use their printout as model for further writing – change the details of setting or events.

ICT Links: Text can be typed into a computer and printed out.

Tongue Twisters

This section gives pupils the chance to have some fun with word play! It provides banks of words using a particular consonant blend which children can drag and drop to make their own crazy sayings. A range of articles and conjunctions are also provided so complete sentences can be made.

Teaching Ideas

• Print out Tongue Twisters for class book or display.
• Ask children to make their own word banks using other initial sounds.

ICT Links: Words can be selected from a word bank using the mouse.
Text can be moved into position using the mouse.

Comics

Here there are three pictures taken from the Comic books. Children may or may not recognise them, but that doesn’t matter. All the text has been removed from the page, but empty speech and thought bubbles and text boxes are laid out at the side. The idea is that children choose where they want to put text boxes for captions, labels etc, and bubbles for characters thoughts or words, and write their own text. It does not need to relate to the original story – they can let their imaginations go! Word banks for optional use?

Teaching Ideas

• Differentiation
  e.g. must include two speech/thought bubbles should include speech and caption could include speech/thought for all characters and at least one text box
  
• Print out pages for class book or display.

ICT Links: Text can be typed into a computer and printed out.
Text can be entered and corrected.
Use of the space, return and shift keys.

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