Educational Freeware for Improving Reading

Here is a a collection of literacy based web 2.0 applications that support literacy education from early years onwards.  Teach your kids to read and write using these great free software down loads for Windows and free web sites. Starfall.com is of course the most famous, but there are other good literacy sites as well. Access it here.



30 Reading Group Activities for your students

What is it: I  have complied about half of my independent literacy tasks aimed at primary / elementary students .  The activities are included as a PDF with instructions and are very easy to follow all related to reading and literacy.  The activities are:  Make a puppet; Same story different Words; Picture Mobile; Mobile Building; Word Puzzles, Wanted Poster; So you want to be a Poet; Letter to the Editor; false Advertising; letter to a Friend; Radio Play; Going to the Theatre; Personality Plus; Don't Judge a book by it's cover; Illustrations; collages; Time lines, Larger than Life; Fables; Crosswords; I've lost my Page; I agree; They did what;

How can I use these in my classroom: You can use these as either group or individual tasks for your students to work through over a period of time.  they are applicable to any text so you can ask students to relate them to a book being read as a whole group or as an individual text.  See how you go.

Download the PDF here. I have a load more of these available also that I will add.