This site contains interactive games on a range of Primary based subject. They are easily embedded into your virtual learning environments as well as your flipchart, notebook or easiteach files.
Resources Tagged With: Literacy
Class Tools.net
Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge! Perfect for virtual learning environments and IWBs.
My favorite tool is the “Random Name Picker” fruit machine. My students never argue over who goes first if the fruit machine chooses them!
resources also include:
- Diamond 9
- Fish Bone (Fishy Bob!!)
- Venn Diagram
- Time line
- Priority Targets
- Interactive Hamburger Diagram…. (perfect for essay writing?? )
- An interactive accelerated learning cycle
- A Jigsaw diagram
- A priority Chart
Interactive Story Books
This page contains both talking big books and ones you can all read together on your IWB. A collection of links created by Woodlands Junior School, Kent (UK). A very helpful set of resources!
Sebastian Swan
This site contains 7 different ‘big book’ stories which can be displayed on your IWB. Each one has a different Early Years learning focus. These focus include:
- animals that live in Costa Rica
- names of animals that live in the Australian tropical rain forest
- common initial sound or phoneme in each sentence. Sounds featured include s,c,m,t,b,h and g.
- simple counting (with interactive roll over buttons)
- introducing children to CVC’s words
- who eats who in the lake!
- signs of spring
- autumnal changes
- the life cycle of swans.
Story Bird – Big books
Storybird is full of Big Books that you can use on your interactive whiteboard. All of the books are free because they are created by their readers. You could even have a go at creating your own class big books and sharing them with each other. Good fun!
“Storybirds are short, visual
stories that you make with
family and friends to share
and (soon) print.”