In year 4, at my school, we work with a material in English, called ”Magic”. The teaching material includes Classbook, Workbook and Wordtrainer.
To the Classbook belongs a Web Part with all texts and listening exercises recorded and self-correcting, varied exercises in vocablary, grammar and self-test.
This material is great. Since we've got plenty of computers all pupils are working at their own speed and with what they need. Each book includes a CD, that you put into the computer. The pupils can practice at home even if they do not have Internet. Of course it´s necessary for them to have a computer. You choose a chapter of the book, then you can practice everything related to that chapter.
There has been a new ”Magic”, called Magic 3. Magic 3 is made for year 3 and it´s based on Lgr 11. You access the Web Part by a code in the textbook.
During the Book Fair in Göteborg 2012 the authors of Magic 3, Mary Robling and Annie Westman held a workshop about how the teaching mateial can be used on the Smartboard.
You can visit the link below and then click on ”Ta del av workshopen” to get tips and ideas on how to work with this material on the Smartboard.
In year 5 we are working with a material, called ”Spotlight”. This is also a very good material to work with on the web. Web Exercises can be found at www.nok.se/laromedel
A program on the computer that I can recommend is
”From word to word”. The program consists of crosswords
that become more and more difficult. You learn English words,
pronunciation and practice spelling.
We use Lexia on the computer for pupils who need extra training. On Lexia you create individual programs for each pupil.You can read more about this on Lexia.nu.
Spellright is also something that is useful. It.´s a program that corrects English spelling. You can read more about this on the following link.
This was a litte about how we work with ICT at my school. I hope that something can be useful for some of you.
Yours
Marianne Öggesjö
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ReplyDeleteThank you for the suggestion about the "Magic" material. It sounds interesting. A good thing about it was that the pupils doesn´t have to have internet at home. Lucky you who has plenty of computers in the classroom! I spoke to a friend of mine who teach English in the 4-6:th grade and she said that she want´s to teach more whitout a textbook. Maby this depends on how good your self-confidence are in teaching English? Programs to learn English words, pronunciation and spelling are very useful to our pupils. If they get bored with one of them they can always try another. I hope that we don´t get lost in all this technology resourses and forget to have some "old fashion" lessons as well in our classroom. The pupils need to read texts, speak with each other and write English texts as well:)
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