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*As of March 2020, due to school closures amid Covid-19, I used this blog as a space to upload educational lessons and activities to help those who wished to avail of it. As requested by many I will keep the activity suggestions posted here to use at your own free will under the menu heading of 'Covid Home School'. Julieanne x

Nibbler's Adventures

Nibbler's Aistear Adventures is a resource I created that is designed for teachers to
help incorporate the Aistear curriculum framework into the
junior classrooms - a framework for learning through play.

It is available from http://www.eduhub.ie or http://www.cleverkids.ie .More detail and videos are available in the menu above.

Free pdf download on oral language and vocabulary development from the children's puzzle book from Nibbler's Aistear Adventures... https://www.cleverkids.ie/Nibbler_download.pdf

Language for Living

I am a firm believer in developing oral language and vocabulary skills in children. I developed 'Language for Living' (also referred to as Tip of the Tongue), which contains a wealth of inspiring resources for the development of oral language and vocabulary development.

Offers planned, intentional teaching of vocabulary...words of the day/ overused words and expressions etc.

A progressive, considered method to narrow the word gap

Hands on, ready to use.

Adaptable to the learning needs of different children.

learning through play, games and activities.

It is available from http://www.eduhub.ie or http://www.cleverkids.ie (Ireland) or http://www.tts-international.com (UK). More detail and videos are available in the menu above.
Enjoying IPPN Conference 2019 & 2020

Language is the most powerful instrument in human progress.
Maria Montessori

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world
Nelson Mandela

We can share with our children a wealth of words...by closing the vocabulary gaps for children in our classrooms with their peers, we can offer them the vital academic tools for school success, alongside the capability to communicate with confidence in the world beyond the school gates.
ALEX QUIGLEY, CLOSING THE VOCABULARY GAP (2018)

Get in Touch

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I am an Artist I Am An Artist is a visual arts initiative aimed at supporting primary teachers and pupils in the adoption and delivery of the visual arts curriculum in Ireland. By comprising 30 short TV programmes (each 6 minutes in length), an interactive website with slideshows, lessons, weblinks and interactive games, it provides [...]

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Online Resources for Children with Special Educational Needs

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RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus

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RhymeZone rhyming dictionary and thesaurus

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A comprehensive rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and brainstorming tool for the English language. Includes dozens of functions to help songwriters, poets, and anyone else in need of a word.

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QA International launched , a new valuable resource to learn Spanish. Includes 17 all-around themes to explore, including the human body, sciences and food. MORE

From the image to the word and its definition, the Visual Dictionary Online is an all-in-one reference. Search the themes to quickly locate words, or find the meaning of a word by viewing the image it represents. What's more, the Visual Dictionary Online helps you learn English in a visual and accessible way. The Visual Dictionary Online is ideal for teachers, parents, translators and students of all skill levels. Explore the Visual Dictionary Online and enrich your mind. Perfect for home, school or work. Discover a visual world of information!

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QA International launched , a new valuable resource to learn Spanish. Includes 17 all-around themes to explore, including the human body, sciences and food. MORE From the image to the word and its definition, the Visual Dictionary Online is an all-in-one reference.

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Building it into your day

Your home is a place where lots of learning is happening every day. Your child will improve their vocabulary and speech by hearing how words are used in everyday life. Chatting to your child, asking them questions and encouraging them to ask you questions will help build these essential skills.
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Ages and stages

School now becomes an important part of your child's life. They are learning to be with other children more and they use talking to build new relationships. Other people can usually understand them clearly, though they still may have difficulty putting some sounds together.
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Top Tips

1. Encourage your child to retell a story they have heard. This will help your child to put ideas in the right order.

2. Ask questions which encourage your child to give more than a yes or no answer "What do you feel about that?"

3. Talk about the time for different things your child does every day - "It's half past eight, time for school". Use time words: early, late, weekend, second and minute.

4. Talk together about numbers - "How many have we for dinner?" (How many legs on chairs? Dogs have 4 legs. How many legs are there with 2, or 3 dogs? 7 days in a week, 14 days is 2 weeks).

5. Count with your child and involve them in home activities that involve measuring, weighing and counting.

6. Encourage your child to read things around them - cereal packets, notices and signs in shops. Discuss words. Read with your child - 5 minutes a day can help.

7. Give your child puzzles to do like mazes and dot-to-dots - write out their name in dots and get them to trace over dots. Look for opportunities to do real writing - cards for birthdays, titles for drawings they have made.

Click for tips on play for 3-6 year olds from the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment.

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Your home is a place where lots of learning is happening every day. Your child will improve their vocabulary and speech by hearing how words are used in everyday life. Chatting to your child, asking them questions and encouraging them to ask you questions will help build these essential skills.

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If your son or daughter is having problems talking or understanding what others say, you can help them by using the free downloads on this page. They contain useful tips to encourage school age children to talk and to develop their listening skills.

Tips and ideas to help listening and talking
These sheets contain practical advice with ideas for games and activities to help children practise and develop their skills in a fun way.
Produced by Afasic Cymru and written by Zein Pereira, an independent S&L Therapist. References are available for each of the leaflets.

Helping your school age child to listen (299.5 KiB, 3,134 hits)

Helping your school age child put words together (281.4 KiB, 3,319 hits)

Helping your school age child with speech sounds (253.8 KiB, 3,134 hits)

Helping your school age child to understand what you say (340.3 KiB, 2,234 hits)

Helping your school age child to understand and use words (261.9 KiB, 2,641 hits)

Helping your school age child - bumpy talking (264.3 KiB, 2,312 hits)

Helping your school age child to interact with others (263.7 KiB, 2,187 hits)

Video tips on how to help your child

Suggested reading for language development
We have a range of activity books in our Shop which can help to develop talking and understanding.

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If your son or daughter is having problems talking or understanding what others say, you can help them by using the free downloads on this page. They contain useful tips to encourage school age children to talk and to develop their listening skills.

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Language-building Tips for Parents of Young Children

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Any time is a good time to help your child learn language and literacy skills! Hanen Tips for Parents can help you turn any activity you do with your child into an opportunity to build his skills - and to have fun while you're doing it!

All Hanen tips are based on current research which shows that parents have the power to boost their children's language and literacy development when they:

Hanen Tips for Parents are divided into three sections based on particular stages of language development, so choose the option below that best describes what your child is doing now.

Tips for parents of young children who communicate without words

These tips are for parents of children who communicate using a combination of sounds, gestures (e.g. pointing, shaking head for "no", waving "bye") and eye gaze (looking at you and then at what he is "talking" about). These children are sending clear messages, just not with words.

Tips for parents of children who have just started talking

These tips are for parents of children who have started to use single words or who have started to put two words together (e.g. "dog" or "Mommy go")

Tips for parents of children who talk in sentences

These tips are for parents of children who talk in sentences consisting of a few or many words.

The most important part of using Hanen tips is to have fun with your child!

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Reading Games and Guided Reading with Roy the Zebra

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How fast can you blend?

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Lets practice our cursive writing skills

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Writing Repeater - handwriting demonstration tool

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Please see Starfall's how-to-teach-reading page, Learn to Read with Phonics, Fluency, and Comprehension, and print the Free Phonics Printouts for children. Starfall™ books, games, movies, and songs follow a research-based method of systematic phonics starting with consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words. Emergent readers gain confidence as they progress to long vowels and other letter-sound relationships such as digraphs.

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Where do you put the full stop?

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Once the punctuation game has loaded then read the instructions on the intro screen and click the start button.

A sentence will whizz in from the left, but it won't have its full stop. Grab the snail with your finger or your mouse and drag to where you think the full stop should be. To help you position the full stop a target will appear. When you drop the snail if it is at the end of a word then it will turn into a full stop - hey presto! If it isn't near a word then the snail will whizz back to the branch for you to have another go.

The game will detect when you have answered and then automatically mark the sentence for you. Don't worry if you have the answer wrong, you'll get another chance to put the snail and its full stop in the right place.

During the game keep an eye on the snail scoreboard and keep going with the full stops until all the sentences are done. Have fun playing it.

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Load the high frequency words reading game and wait for the introduction screen. Read the instructions on this screen and then click the start button. Look at the months at the bottom of the screen and click and drag, or touch and drag, them into the box. Be careful you need to get them in the right order.

If you need some help then use the calendar bar above the main box. If you're feeling really clever then you can close the calendar by clicking the cross.

The game will automatically mark itself when you have finished dragging and dropping the months. If you have got the months in the right chronological order then you will be able to give Tom one of his bedtime bits, for example, a nice glass of water.

If you haven't got them in the right order then you will get another chance to re-order them.

If you make a mistake, then no worries, all you need to do is to click the flower in the bottom left-hand corner of the reading game and it will undo the last month dragged.

Keep dragging the months until Tom has all of his bedtime things.

He'll then be able to have a good nights sleep and dream of being young and running in the savanna!

There are lots of games that tackle high frequency words on Club Roy - check out the link in the main navigation.

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High Frequency Word Games - days of the week and months of the year

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Suitable for grades 2 - 6, Grammar Gorillas lets you select the correct part of speech to feed the gorillas & to win. Play Grammar Gorillas online, here.

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Practise spelling common exception words.

(Ages 5 and up)

Children in school learn to spell some word through the use of phonics. Some common words are 'tricky' and children need to learn them by heart.

This game uses the words listed in the UK National Curriculum as being 'Common Exception Words' i.e. tricky words.
Choose a year group, then choose bird box to select your word list. Arrange the letters in the correct order to spell each word. The bats will take the letters away when you get it right.

iOS iPad App:
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