# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Though my work as Apple Professional Learning Specialist, I have been working with a Primary School to streamline their Digital Progressions. This means I am designing new organisation and tasks for the students to undertake at each year level. As the tools upgrade and the skill level of the students increase, what is possible needs to be revisited. We want to do all we can do to help them learn how to use the tools creatively to show their learning and understanding and assist them to process information.

I'm going to show you how to create a workbook template for your students to work through a variety of exercises on their iPad, taking advantage of the different tools available. This will be created on my MacBook, since many teachers have one they use, and it offers you a couple more tools to create with.

One of the Year 1 Digital Fluency tasks is learning how to use the camera to take images that tell a story. As part of this we have included the Extreme Close up, a task which they first encountered in Year 0. The first time we undertook this lesson we worked with a partner and took turns taking the images. We kept our 'wings' (elbows) tucked in so the iPad stayed still, and we stepped forward to zoom and then zoomed in more still. We tapped to focus, and took the image using the volume button, because that allowed us to keep both hands on the iPad.

A Year 0 trip to the Maritime Museum will result in some awesome close up images we can't wait to share in our simple 'Eye spy" Treasure Hunt template book.

In this Year 1 workbook I will demonstrate, we have included the same activity but with a Spring focus, and it's a follow up for the students to practise the skill on their own and share the results.

The tasks are pretty simple to be sure, but the techniques used in making a template like this are ones you will find useful whatever year level or subject you work with.

Workbooks allow you to guide the students through a series of interactive activities that are customised and personalised to the learning they are undertaking, and the way you teach and scaffold their understanding. You can take full advantage of the variety of activity styles and media interactions to capture learning and create meaning. You also provide the opportunity for creativity in responding and sharing learning.

A few tips you might find useful when creating your workbook:

To speed your process up, have your images and resources pulled together into one place where they are easy to access.

Have a think about the process the students will follow and how best it is to construct the page - your students age and skill set come into this as well.

Mask your images with a shape for more interest.

Add image placeholders.

Add text placeholders.

Think about the layers and what should be placed on top of which items.

Group and Lock items where appropriate.

Add your contents as a Background image - this is super useful to stop students getting distracted by changing your layout

Add your contents to the actual Pages page template - this is super useful for older students for something like a technology workflow, or science experiment write up like the template shown below. This means they can add extra pages as required and still follow the template. To add into the page template, click the paintbrush on a blank page and select Edit Page Template. Make all your pages and then press done in the bottom right on the orange banner.

All images and drawings used in the template attached are created, or taken by me, Julia Parker. You are welcome to use them but I'd encourage you to make your own - it's so much more fun. (The chicks are all doing well, thanks for asking)

More information

Year 1 Spring workbook.template

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Creating workbook templates in Pages to support Digital

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Though my work as Apple Professional Learning Specialist, I have been working with a Primary School to streamline their Digital Progressions. This means I am designing new organisation and tasks for the students to undertake at each year level. As the tools upgrade and the skill level of the students increase, what is possible needs to be revisited.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Making getting to know your learners and settling back into school easy!
Here is an interactive Pages resource for all teachers to share or teach t...

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
How to Save Animated Memoji Videos to your Camera Roll

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Sign in to the Education Community. Discover great learning resources and learn new skills to become an Apple Teacher.

# data[].attributes.body
You can download an awesome graphic organiser template at the bottom of this web page

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Sign in to the Education Community. Discover great learning resources and learn new skills to become an Apple Teacher.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
This is a fully interactive journal for students to use when needed to help them cope with their emotions in a wide variety of ways. After goin...

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Thank you so much for posting this, Lindsay! I know it can be a struggle to find ways for younger learners to work independently, especially when topics need to be scaffolded and instruction differentiated. The how-to videos included on each page are an amazing way to have students rewatch instruction as many times as they need.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Scaffolding New Learning in the Primary Classroom: Writing

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Thank you so much for posting this, Lindsay! I know it can be a struggle to find ways for younger learners to work independently, especially when topics need to be scaffolded and instruction differentiated. The how-to videos included on each page are an amazing way to have students rewatch instruction as many times as they need.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
As more and more schools move to 1:1 iPad programs, it is important that we teach students how to use technology in creative ways. At the end of the day, we want students not only to be consumers of knowledge but creators of digital content.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Bring out the creative in you by designing engaging learning activities specifically designed for all learners in your class.

As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist, I have the opportunity to work closely with educators across all year levels. I often find teachers searching for activities, videos or resources specifically tailored for the needs of their students. This can sometimes take a long time, let alone, be the right content you are teaching that day, week or term.

iPad enables us teachers to be creatives, giving us the opportunity to design tailored learning experience for our students. On the same token, we want our learners to be creators. We want them to demonstrate their skills and knowledge in a way that's fun, engaging and meaningful for them. With iPad, we are able to create, build and differentiate for every learner in our class.

As part of the phonics programme in a Kindergarten class, students are learning to identify, say and blend taught sounds. With the mobility of using iPad, I wanted the literacy activity to enable little learners to move around the classroom and use the built in features on the device (camera, microphone, touch screen) to engage with the skills being taught. With the goal of it being an independent literacy rotation, this activity needed to be easily modified through the school year, and flexible to differentiate for all learners.

With Keynote, I created an activity for students to locate, or 'hunt', for letters (graphemes) in the classroom to spell out a word. Once students find the letter, they can easily take a photo within the placeholder. These placeholders are created in Keynote and help students easily identify and capture each individual letter without having to worry about formatting or resizing an image. Place holders are fantastic and can be used for any activity (locating 2D and 3D shapes around the school, inserting Clips videos or even amazing drawings from SketchesSchool). In the video below, I will show you how to create a place holder.

Once students locate the letters to spell out a word, they then use the record audio feature to say each sound (phoneme). After each letter is captured and each sound is recorded, students then record the whole word by blending the sounds as a strategy for reading and creating texts.

Not only does this activity allow students to record their voice and capture photos, it also gives them the opportunity to use the drawing feature to trace over the word and a blank space to write down the word working on their fine motor skills, all while keeping the visual and the auditory components in the same space.

Below you will find a copy of the Keynote scaffold I created. Simply download a copy and AirDrop to your students to get them learning and moving with this engaging and simple-to-create literacy activity. With the Keynote template you can easily duplicate slides allowing you to teach new sounds, new letters and new words.
Additional information ⬇️:

Kindy - Literacy Hunt - Master.key

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Developing Early Literacy Scaffolds on iPad

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Bring out the creative in you by designing engaging learning activities specifically designed for all learners in your class. As an Apple Professional Learning Specialist, I have the opportunity to work closely with educators across all year levels. I often find teachers searching for activities, videos or resources specifically tailored for the needs of their students.

# data[].attributes.headline
@Chantelle - Supporting Early Literacy with Numbers Templates

# data[].attributes.subject
@Chantelle - Supporting Early Literacy with Numbers Templates

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Supporting Early Literacy with Numbers Templates.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Throughout the many years of my early childhood teaching career, one thing has been constant, children need to know the names of the letters of th...