Wednesday, 7 February 2007

Explantatory Texts

In year 5, we have been looking at explanatory texts.

Of course Dorking Kidersley books are a great resourse for this. But I discovered by pure chance that on their website you can view pages from inside their books.

Choose a book, then click to look inside. Most pages are big enough to read on screen and some you could print and read.

Great for lots of quick examples.

Check it out

http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/

Friday, 2 February 2007

Updates to bookmarks

I've just updated the delicious links page

http://del.icio.us/nightingaleprimary

Click on the Art tag on the right, and you see the new sites.

Also check out this http://redbridgeprimaryit.blogspot.com/2007/01/literacy-mini-clips.html

Some very nice ideas for story starters.

Nic