Using
ICT
to
Support the
National
Literacy Strategy
Contents
Introduction
An ICT Toolbox
Recommended Software
Managing ICT in the Literacy Hour
Ideas for Using ICT in the Literacy Hour
Index to the Teaching and Learning Example
Materials, (Literacy) Disks
Free Resources on the Internet
Copying and Pasting from the Internet
Purpose of this document
To highlight
opportunities to use the ICT in the National Literacy Hours.
To cross reference
ICT activities for Literacy with the QCA Scheme of Work for ICT.
Rationale
Draw
together all literacy activities that lend themselves to a meaningful use of
ICT to enhance learning. A useful guide
to show the breadth of resources available both commercially and through the
NLS.
Introduction
The
activities suggested in this document are not all encompassing, but are a
taster for the ways in which ICT may be integrated into teaching and learning
as far as literacy is concerned. No
reference has been made here to the use of Integrated Learning Systems,
electronic dictionaries, listening centres, etc, but these are all valuable ICT
resources.
ICT
and literacy are inextricably linked - whenever children write, they could do
so using a wordprocessor or DTP package.
Computers in the classroom and ICT suites are great resources for
independent, group and class work. They
remain great motivators and encourage collaborative work and are therefore too
valuable a tool to remain unused during the literacy hour.
Not
to be forgotten is the computer as an excellent tool for making teaching
resources …especially in the production of ‘texts’. The Internet can be a wonderful source of
texts and electronic books. We have included lots of useful sites for both of
these.
To
achieve a balance in software , we recommend each class is equipped with an ICT
toolbox..
An ICT Toolbox to Support the Development
of Literacy Skills.
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Tools |
Examples |
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Coomber
Listening Centre; Dictaphone or digital voice recorder |
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2 Publish;
Clicker; Textease; MS Word |
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Developing Tray
by 2 Simple |
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Franklin
Spellcheckers |
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Starspell,
Wordshark or Spellmate |
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From commercial
suppliers such as Pelican Books; free from the
Internet; or made by staff in MS PowerPoint, Clicker or Textease. |
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Espresso;
KnowledgeBox |
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MS Publisher Textease Studio Plus 2Publish |
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Kar2ouche |
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Smart or
Promethean (Smart Notebook/ Easiteach/ActivPrimary) |
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2Animate, MS
PowerPoint, Imagine Logo |
* It is recommended that your computer has the
following plug-ins: Macromedia Flash to show animated files; Quicktime and Real
Player to view movie and sound files; Adobe Reader to view document files. If
you are unable to run a particular file on computer contact your ICT Co-ordinator.
Recommended Software
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Clicker5 |
0845 121 1691 |
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To enquire about Clicker5 or
support for Clicker5, please contact Keith Ansell at the Bristol Education
Centre to 0117 3773225 |
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Textease Studio Plus |
01335 343422 |
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2 Simple Infant Video
Toolkit |
020 8203 1781 |
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RM Easiteach |
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Kar2ouche |
01865 811099 |
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Also MS PowerPoint,
Publisher and Word |
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There are many excellent
materials from Longmans, Heinemann, Ginn and Rigby To view or borrow this and
other software to support Literacy, please contact Julie Garnett at the
Literacy Centre at the Bristol Education Centre to 0117 9031364 |
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Managing ICT in
the Literacy Hour
There are many ways of
organising the use of your computers during the Literacy Hour. The following are just a few suggestions,
which you may add to as time goes on!
Remember to link what you are doing in your ICT lesson e.g. How to
change the font, with tasks you set in the Literacy Hour. You don’t want to have to teach the ICT skill
in your literacy lesson, match the type of ICT literacy task to the skills
children already have in ICT.
Using the computer with the whole class
·
Use the computer during shared reading or
writing. Have a text extract already
typed into the computer, to work on during the first thirty minutes. During that time you may like to manipulate
the text according to the learning objectives.
·
You may also have the same text pre-printed
ready for the children to use in independent activity time. You may have already modified the text and
pre-printed for the children to work on during independent activity time or
guided group work.
·
You could have your computer linked to an
LCD projector. Linked to a laptop, and
possibly on a trolley to make it mobile, this is an invaluable resource for whole
class teaching.
Group
activities
·
This can be done in twos, threes or more if
you have a larger screen. Use a rota
system to ensure all children have the opportunity to do the task.
·
The computer activity can be part of your
carousel, and the children rotate around this as with other activities.
·
If it is a talking programme headphones
could be used to minimise the noise level.
Computer
suite
·
Do your Literacy hour within the
suite. Tables in the centre mean you can
have different balances of paper based and on-screen tasks. Some units lend
themselves to the use of ICT. If you are teaching one of these units, you may
wish to block the suite, so your class may use the suite every day for an
extended period. In this way, the ICT
skills can be established early on, with the children going on to develop their
Literacy ideas and produce quality outcomes.
·
Your school network will give you access to
the
·
Use the
Working with a parallel class
·
If you work with a parallel class and you
each have a computer in your room you may like to consider pooling your
computer resources. These could be
placed outside the classroom and each class could use both computers once a
fortnight – if you have groups of six children then three from the same group
could work at each computer.
Ideas
for using ICT in the Literacy Hour
In the Literacy hour,
children should be using many different activities to work with texts. If you
incorporate an element of ICT into these then not only will you have a useful
bank of activities, you will also be meeting some of the requirements of the
ICT curriculum.
TEXT
LEVEL
With the whole class – during shared
reading or writing
Text extracts
·
It is easy to use the computer screen to
display a text extract so that children can share reading it. You can type in any text and save it,
stories, poems, information text. Set
the text as large as you can. You can
now link up your computer to a larger screen (monitor) for about £100. Work from this text exactly as you would use
your big book or large type text extract.
This needs only happen occasionally, and it re-enforces the idea to the
children that ICT is another medium in which to access print. If you have an ICT suite in school you can
use it in a similar way as described above.
A good use of it might be to use it for shared writing. Save a child’s piece of writing or a made-up
piece of your own. Using either a data
projector (£1200) or a large monitor (£400) model in the normal way revising or
editing work, e.g.: focus on the sentence expansion or use of punctuation. The independent work can then involve
children working on a different text – perhaps their own saved from a previous
session and applying what they have learned in the shared session.
Group
Activities
Frames
for children’s writing
·
Type in the first and last lines of a text
as a framework for a group of children to work on at the keyboard. This could be fiction or non-fiction. The children could work collaboratively to
“reconstruct” the text (they might then like to compare their version to the
original). An easy way to differentiate
writing frames is to first type in your frame for the least able child, then
delete sections and extend the space available for the middle group, then
delete more of the frame and further extend the space available for writing for
the most able.
Children
can create their own writing frames for a poem.
If you are looking at poetry forms and structure, save a poem on screen
and children can then delete parts of the poem to leave the structure of the
poem to use as a frame e.g.: counting poems,
One is (an apple I take) delete this to school
Two are (the legs that walk
me) delete this to school
Pick a line
·
Let the children select a favourite line
from a poem or story and use it to start off another poem or story. Type the line in and away you go.
Changing Texts
·
You can type in a piece of text. The children can then change this in all
kinds of ways.
·
Change the font size and style to emphasise
the meaning of certain words.
·
Add an eye-catching title to the text
extract.
·
Change the layout of a poem to make it more
interesting.
·
Change a piece of text into a newspaper
article.
·
Change a text from past to present tense.
Writing
a collaborative story
·
Pairs type in the first line of a story,
making sure they work from a set of success criteria, e.g.: use an adjective,
use a powerful verb, etc. The next pair
then writes the second line and so on.
To ensure quality, make sure the writing has been modelled in shared
writing where the success criteria has been used generated from the reading of
the shared text.
Précis
·
You type a piece of text into the computer
for the children to précis. They should
edit out any unnecessary words to make the text suitable for a newspaper
article. Print and return the screen to
the original text for the next group.
When
children are looking at non-fiction text and beginning to think about making
notes, use a simple non-fiction text where children then highlight key words or
sentences. They could change the font,
size, etc of the key words or delete the rest of the text leaving only the key
words, phrases, etc.
SENTENCE
LEVEL
Change
Words
·
Type a piece of text. Ask children to change a particular aspect of
the text. For instance, change all the
adjectives to alter the meaning or mood of a piece.
·
Change the word “said” in a text or “and
then” for better words!
·
Change verbs to powerful verbs.
Unjumble
·
Type in the text with jumbled up
sentences. The children have to “un”
jumble them. This is particularly useful
when looking at instructional texts, or chronological reports.
Punctuation
·
Type in text with the punctuation
removed. Children then need to add the
punctuation and print. Return the text
ready for the next group. The children
can then check whether they are correct by looking at the original text. Be very clear which punctuation you are
focussing on, e.g.: put in the capitals, full stops, etc.
Proof reading
·
Type in a piece of work, which contains mistakes. The children then have to correct the
mistakes. You can tailor this to each
groups needs. You can have a correct
version for the children to check theirs against.
·
This can be used to help children with
personal spellings. One partner can test
the other. The partner types their
personal words onto the computer, then use spell check to “mark” them. This could be part of the spelling “learning
process” rather than the focus being “a test”.
WORD
LEVEL
Close
Procedure
·
Type in texts with missing words,
differentiating for each group. The
group have to work out the missing words and fill them in, print and return the
text. Have a completed version of the
text for the children to check their version against. This is good when encouraging children to
read for meaning and emphasising the need to re-read text to check that it
makes sense. Stress that there can be
more than one right answer!
Missing
letters
·
As above, but delete letters from
words. Children work to fill in the
missing letters, print and check the original.
Word lists
·
Type in a couple of words from a word list,
e.g.: sat, cat. Children must add as
many words as they can to the list.
Print and return to the original text for the next group.
Using the Internet
·
Texts can be downloaded to use in shared
reading (site below can help with this).
This is particularly useful for relevant non-fiction text that has a
real purpose and audience.
·
Email is brilliant too for giving purpose
to writing and an audience. Linking with
another school, perhaps a type of buddy system with a year group covering the
same objectives is good for this.
·
See the following section on free Internet
sites.
Learning
and Teaching Using ICT: Example Materials, a Literacy Index
In
Autumn 2004, The Primary Strategy released a boxed set of CDs titled “ Learning
and Teaching Using ICT: Example Materials” The intention of the material was to
give easy to use examples of ICT being used to support all areas of the
curriculum in all primary years. Included in the set of disks for each year is:
video footage of a lesson being taught, a Word file lesson plan to edit, a
rationale of why ICT was being used, as well as the materials used to deliver
the lesson. We whole-heartedly recommend the use of these materials with staff.
There are disks appropriate for each year taught. Viewed as a whole, a wide
range of ways ICT can be made explicit.
Using ICT to support Literacy – the five areas exemplified on the
discs:
- using interactive
multimedia texts
- exploring the
editing potential of working on screen
- supporting the
planning and structure of writing
- using digital
images/sound to stimulate and extend writing
- exploring spelling
(limited examples)
By
selecting appropriate examples it is possible to show, for example, the use of
whiteboards to support shared reading, through KS1 And KS2.The following table
may be of use in selecting from the materials.
|
Extract |
Area of study |
Objectives |
ICT Platform |
|
Y5 clip 1 |
Features of different
genres |
Y5 T3 T1 |
Group – tablet PCs or
laptops |
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Shared |
|||
|
Extract |
Area of study |
Objectives |
ICT Platform |
|
Y1 clip3 |
Narrative |
Y1 T2 Text |
Whole class |
|
Y3 clip5 |
Non-fiction reading |
Y3 T1 text |
Whole class- data projector and internet |
|
Y5 clip3 |
Investigating genre – adventure text |
Y5 T2 text |
Whole class-data projector |
|
Guided |
|||
|
Extract |
Area of study |
Objectives |
ICT Platform |
|
Y1 clip2 |
Non-fiction reading |
Y1 T2 Text |
Group- computer suite/laptops |
|
Y2 clip3 |
Non-fiction reading |
Y2 T3 text |
Group – laptops/group of computers |
|
Y4 clip1 |
Narrative reading |
Y4 T1 text |
Group – laptops, computer suite |
|
Y6 clip1 |
|
Y6 T1 text |
Group – laptops or group of computers in suite |
|
Independent |
|||
|
Extract |
Area of study |
Objectives |
ICT Platform |
|
Y3 clip1 |
|
Y3 T3 text |
Whole class- data projector +internet access |
|
Y5 clip2 |
|
Y5 T3 text |
Whole class – data projector + internet access |
Exploring
editing potential of working on screen
|
Extract |
Area of study |
Objectives |
ICT Platform |
|
Y2 clip1 |
Book review |
Y2 T3 text |
Whole class – data
projector + follow up using laptops or computer suiteclip |
|
Y1 clip1 |
Editing poetry |
Y1 T1 Text |
Whole class (IWB) |
|
Y3 clip3 |
Poetry - calligrams |
Y3 T1 text |
Whole class – data projector |
|
Y4 clip4 |
Using ‘find and replace’ to edit work |
Y4 T3 words |
Whole class – computer suite or group - laptops |
|
Y5 clip5 |
Converting notes into text |
Y5 T2 text |
Whole class – data projector |
|
Y6 clip2 |
Note taking using template |
Y6 T1 text |
Whole class- data projector + computer suite for
follow up |
|
Y6 clip3 |
Using electronic frame to write non-linear text |
Y6 T1 text |
Whole class- data projector + computer suite for
follow up |
|
Y6 clip4 |
Journalistic text |
Y6 T1 text |
Whole class – computer suite + internet access |
Support
planning and structure of writing
|
Extract |
Area of study |
Objectives |
ICT Platform |
|
Y6 clip5 |
Non-chronological
reports |
Y6 T1 text |
Whole class - IWB |
|
Y2 clip2 |
Poetry -
using poem studied as model for own writing |
Y2 T2 text |
Whole class – data projector |
|
Y2 clip4 |
Explanations |
Y2 T2 text |
Whole class – data projector |
|
Y4 clip2 |
Writing about characters |
Y4 T1 text |
Whole class – computer suite or group with
laptops |
|
Y5 clip4 |
Making notes from interactive text |
Y5 T2 text |
Whole class – data projector |
|
Y5 clip5 |
Converting notes into text |
Y5 T2 text |
Whole class – data projector + follow up in
computer suite or laptops |
|
Y6 clip2 |
Note-taking using template |
Y6 T1 text |
Whole class- data projector + computer suite for
follow up |
|
Y6 clip3 |
Using electronic writing frame to write
non-linear text |
Y6 T1 text |
Whole class – computer suite + internet access |
Using
digital image and sound
|
Extract |
Area of study |
Objectives |
ICT Platform |
|
Y1 clip4 |
Narrative clip
Sequencing story |
Y1 T2 text |
Whole class: data
projector + digital cameraclip |
|
Y1 clip5 |
Writing captions (narrative) |
Y1 T1 sentence |
Whole class: data projector + digital cameraclip |
|
Y2 clip2 |
Poetry – exploring rhythm and rhyme |
Y2 T2 text |
Whole class – data projector |
|
Y3 clip2 |
Using image to collect words for writing |
Y3 T1 text |
Whole class – data projector |
|
Y4 clip3 |
Persuasion |
Y4 T3 text |
Whole class-data projector + internet access |
Spelling
|
Extract |
Area of study |
Objectives |
ICT Platform |
|
Y4 clip4 |
Investigating letter
strings |
Y4 T3 word |
Whole class- data
projector |
|
Y3 clip4 |
Using thesaurus |
Y3 T1 text |
Whole class-data projector |
The National Whiteboard Network
Site
§
www.nwnet.org.uk/pages/literacy/
There are many documents to support Literacy teaching with an
interactive whiteboard. Ready-made lesson material in whiteboard notebook files
is available to download.
Free Literacy Resources on the
Internet
Key Stage 1
Shared Reading
Kent Naturegrid Big Books KS 1
§
http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/infant/bigbook.html
Selection of big books – various genre
BBC Story Circle
An extensive well organised collection of story
books
BBC Words and Pictures – Long
vowel sounds KS 1
§
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/wordsandpictures/
Selection of poems with long vowel sounds
BBC Little Animal Activity
Centre – Story Bear
§
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/sbi.shtml
Three animated stories, each story can be played
with or without a narrator
Goodnight Stories
§
http://www.goodnightstories.com/read.htm
Wide range of stories and activities. ‘Stories
with Pictures’ is suitable for Key Stage 1. The website also includes some
online activities.
Children’s storybooks online
§
http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html#books
Wide range of stories for all ages
Kids on the Net
§
http://kotn.ntu.ac.uk/index.htm
An international
website which celebrates written work by children of all ages. The
website also includes some online activities.
Planet Wobble
A KS1 subscription website with online books and
activities. E-mail the characters in a story and get replies.
The Little Red Ship
The Little Red Ship is a high quality animated
reading resource for KS1
Literacy Activities
Words and Pictures – Word
Blender – Consonant Clusters
§
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/wordsandpictures/
This activity help with initial and end clusters in
words (eg spin, desk). This area of phonic knowledge is
introduced in the Year 1 Term 2 objectives of the National Literacy Strategy
Framework
LOOK COVER WRITE and
CHECK KS1
§
http://www.ambleside.schoolzone.co.uk/ambleweb/lookcover/lookcover.html
This is an
online spelling resource which can be adapted by the teacher to teach
spellings.
BBC Little Animal
Activity Centre – Digby Word Games
§
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/words/dgi.shtml
Simple
activities involving letter sounds
Dictionary/Thesaurus
§
http://www.gridclub.com/look_it_up/index.shtml
A simple to
use dictionary and thesaurus
Text Disclose KS1
§
http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/index.htm
In this downloadable activity children have to use
their knowledge of word and sentence structure to reveal a chosen text.
Free
Literacy Resources on the Internet
Key Stage 2
Shared Reading
The Willow Pattern Story
§
http://www.thepotteries.org/patterns/willow.html
These resources are referred to in the Teaching
and Learning Example Materials for Year 5
The Viking Quest
These resources are referred to in the Teaching
and Learning Example Materials for Year 5
Wired for Books
§
http://wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm
Beautifully produced versions of classic stories
Stories from the Web
§
http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org/index.htm
This is an on-line resources with stories, poetry,
library links, a gallery of children’s work and word games
Goodnight Stories
§
http://www.goodnightstories.com/read.htm
Wide range
of stories and activities.
Giggle Poetry
§
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryfun.cfm
This is an
on-line resource which features a range of humorous poems and activities based
around them.
Children’s storybooks online
§
http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html#books
Wide range
of stories for all ages
Kids on the Net
§
http://kotn.ntu.ac.uk/index.htm
An
international website which celebrates
written work by children of all ages. The website also includes some online
activities.
Amazon Books
A very good site for finding examples of book and CD reviews
Jubilee Books
A children’s site which has a range of book reviews written by
children
Newsround
§
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/
A children’s website with updated news reports everyday
The Newspaper
An electronic newspaper designed for school use
Enchanted Learning
A
huge amount of non-fiction material for reference.
Puffin Books
Nisbitt Poetry
Forty
humorous poems to inspire.
The
Search for and download animated tales (animated
electronic books) such as Boris Flies High and The Magic in the Rucksack.
The Gutenberg Project
§
http://gutenberg.net/index.html
A useful source of
electronic text for teachers. Select from a large collection of well known
books out of copyright.
Shared Writing Session
Learning Zone Story
Starts
§
http://www.sutton.lincs.sch.uk
This is an on-line
resource and part of a school web site. It has a number of different story
beginnings to choose from and different options for each story.(NB Click on
playground and follow the links)
Persuasive Writing
§
http://www.learn.co.uk/glearning/primary/lessons/ks2/lesson1/intro.asp
This is an on-line
resource. A series of lessons are provided which focus on persuasive writing in
advertisements
Jubilee Books
A children’s site which
has a writing frame for writing book reviews
E-pals
Create monitored e-mail
accounts for your children. Establishing links with other classes across the
world is straightforward. Lots of opportunities such as e-mailing authors;
requesting information; etc. A highly recommended tool for literacy work.
Literacy Activities
Look and Read Spywatch
§
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/lookandread/intro.htm
This is a
downloadable resource which supports the ‘Look and Read’ TV series
LOOK COVER WRITE and
CHECK KS2
§
http://www.ambleside.schoolzone.co.uk/ambleweb/lookcover/lookcover.html
This is an online
spelling resource which can be adapted by the teacher to teach spellings.
Learning Zone Story
Starts
§
http://www.sutton.lincs.sch.uk/
This is an on-line
resource and part of a school web site. It has a number of different story
beginnings to choose from and different options for each story. (NB Click on
playground and follow the links)
Dictionary/Thesaurus
§
http://www.gridclub.com/look_it_up/index.shtml
A simple to use
dictionary and thesaurus
Imaginator
§
http://www.gridclub.com/
From the Gridclub home
page, click on Quicklinks to find English activities. The Imaginator gives lots
of activities supporting story writing.
BBC Schools
§
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/4_11/subjectsi_l.shtml#literacy
Huge resource of on-line activities which cover many Literacy
learning objectives
Text Disclose KS2
§
http://www.mape.org.uk/kids/index.htm
In this
downloadable activity children have to use their knowledge of word and sentence
structure to reveal a chosen text.
Instructions to make a cup of tea
§
http://ro.zrsss.si/~viljenka/maketea.htm
This is an
on-line writing frame that allows children to order instructions for making a
cup of tea.
§
http://www.mape.org.uk/startower/starpunc/index.htm
This is an on-line or downloadable activity where children
replace missing punctuation.
Grid Club – Do the Right Thing
§
http://www.gridclub.com/have_a_go/english/right_thing/index.shtml
This is an online resource for teaching about proverbs and
their meaning.
Rhyme Zone
Find words which rhyme
Jubilee Books
A children’s site which has a writing frame for writing book
reviews
Kids Bookshelf
A site with the aim of
encouraging creativity and imagination in children through reading, writing,
and drawing. Publish children’s’ material on the website.
Using Video
·
www.bfi.org.uk/education/primary
This site has comprehensive
help in using video with primary children
Free Literacy Resources on the
Internet
Foundation Stage
Communication, Language and Literacy
Pages designed to support Foundation teachers in
using ICT in the early years setting. Many online activities are bookmarked at
‘Web sites for the Foundation Stage’.
Oxfordshire LEA
A set of links for early years children to support
Communication, Language and Literacy.
