Supporting Literacy with iPads

Primary

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Workshop slides

Download slides in PDF direct:

http://bit.ly/YP5L2v

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 Parramattalisa.nash@parra.catholic.edu.au

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