Literacy

Here are some useful literacy sites:

Ziggity Zoom: Have fun reading about princesses, pirates, babies, animals and more with these online interactive stories. Listen or read them yourself. There are currently 12 Ziggity Zoom stories. [|www.ziggityzoom.com/stories.php]

Let's Get Cookin' is a simple yet highly visual way to learn about making basic meals. Find the correct ingredients in the pantry or fridge - it's a simple drag and drop function - to prepare and cook simple recipes. []

Pinky Dinky Doo: This is a selection of games, videos and podcasts with printable activities based on a cartoon character from overseas. Very Junior based. [|www.pinkydinkydoo.com]

Scholastic Story Starters: A great site to use within your class as part of your writing programme. Choose a grade and spin the wheel to create unusual and interesting story starters. []

The following two sites are great tools for starting any type of writing using images as the starting point. [|www.flickr.com] [|www.crookedbrains.net]

Build Your Wild Self can be used firstly to design a wild creature and then to write about it. [|www.buildyourwildself.com]

Do you want to use the School Journals? This site can help you search for topics, reading ages, types of texts, etc. [|School Journal Search]

This English site provides some inspiring ideas for writing using ICT. When you get to the blogspot there is a google doc which you need to click on and then either log in or register for the first time - email address and password - once you have done this just click on each slide to take you through to the next one. [|http://ictinenglishnz.blogspot.com]