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Teachers in adopting classes at all levels of the Word Wizard series have easy access to extra digital resources on www.gillexplore.ie, our resources platform:
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The Procedure: Did you include … an aim (with a description of the effects of the food) equipment ingredients method evaluation label diagrams to accompany the steps of the method
• Self-assessment checklists • Writing frames/templates • Yearly Overview Planning Document • Monthly Aistear Plans (Junior and Senior Infants) • Printable Aistear Resources (Junior and Senior Infants) Aistear Plan
Procedural language: Did you use … General and specific nouns and pronouns? Time words? Command action verbs? Detailed, factual adjectives? How, where, when adverbs? and was the reader referred to in a general way, or not at all?
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Introduce topic Unit 1 Oral language Activity – The Fancy Dress Shop
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Area 1: Drama – Roleplay The Fancy Dress Shop You can set up a fancy dress shop with a desk, a cash register, pretend money, hangers, full length mirror, various children’s costumes. These could include: witch, vampire, clown, devil, ghost, skeleton, pumpkin, pirate, fairy, princess, wizard, etc. The following resources are supplied: sign for ‘Fancy Dress Shop’, open/closed sign, please pay here sign, price list for purchase or hire, price tags, badges for sales person and manager, changing room sign, accessories sign, order form for purchasing and hiring costumes. Possible role play scenarios include: º Sales person serving a customer – asking do they want to buy the costume or hire it º Customer trying on a costume º Customer returning a costume º Ordering stock
Area 2: Construction
Build a cauldron for the witch from the story Room on the Broom. Pupils can
explore building a curved structure that will not fall down by alternating how they join the bricks.
Encourage pupils to work as part of a group or build in pairs. Supply witches hats, yellow, red, orange, black and green crepe paper to create the flames and coals under the cauldron and the green slime spilling out of the bubbling cauldron.
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Other suggestions: build a kitchen, a house or a more elaborate house with different rooms.
Can they draw or create the three items the witch added to her potion in Room
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What our teacher reviewers think: ‘I am very impressed – the series is very comprehensive and very well written. There is an excellent variety of activities and I really like the assessment templates provided for selfassessment. I can’t wait to use it with my own class!’ 5th Class teacher, Dublin
‘Overall I felt these fit excellently into the Aistear framework. There is a clear integration between the English language curriculum and the Aistear framework. There is a lot of opportunity for oral language and vocabulary development while still providing the children with the opportunity to learn through play.’ Junior Infants teacher, Co. Meath
‘The authors have brought a fresh, innovative approach to the development of English language skills.’ 1st Class teacher, Tipperary
About the authors Jane O’Loughlin teaches in Swords Educate Together NS, Co. Dublin, and has a wide range of experience teaching in both DEIS and Educate Together schools. She trained with the Dyslexia Association of Ireland and is the author of the successful Sounds Good Phonics programme. Alison Ginnell is an experienced primary school teacher who has taught at many different class levels. She currently teaches in Hansfield Educate Together NS, Dublin 15. Lorraine Lawrance teaches in Scoil Aiséirí Chríost primary school in Cork and has a Masters in Education with reading comprehension as a focus. She spent two years as a research team member for the Building Bridges of Understanding programme.
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Other suggestions: build the magnificent broom featured at the end of the story;
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Word Wizard is a brand new strategies-based series for teaching literacy skills from Junior Infants to 6th Class. Mapped to the most recent curriculum changes, the series is designed to be used with any core English programme. Each level devised using appropriate strategies: Aistear and phonics at junior levels and comprehension strategies at senior levels. Integrated genre approach to teaching literacy skills as recommended by the PDST and in line with new curriculum guidelines. Self-assessment opportunities, including traffic lights and checklists, encourage pupils to be owners of their own learning in line with AfL guidelines.
Word Wizard package includes:
Pupils’ books from Junior Infants–6th Class FREE* teacher eBook FREE* digital teacher resources on www.gillexplore.ie, our smart, reliable and easy-touse resources platform
Revision and assessment units allow teachers to monitor pupil progress, plan accordingly and provide effective feedback.
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