Teaching with ICT

I've found the ICT games website invaluable to help teach with ICT in the classroom, and have used it often on a Smartboard to teach to the whole class, as well as for group and individual activities. It's probably best for lower stages of school, but there are a few things that are useful further up the school too. There is a vast amount of useful stuff on the website, so I've just put a few highlights below, please explore the site to find more.

Some ways it could be used on your class Smartboard:

The Wordy Woods is a great way to display words during writing. The children can add to the list, and these are displayed on a tree. Dragging a word to the bottom of the screen enlarges it. There is the option of having three lists, so these could eb categorised however you wish eg adverbs, emotion words, and adjectives. The words are saved too - you don't need to retype them when you next go to the site.

Word Bingo is great for group games. There are ready made high frequency word lists and ready made lists to print off.

Phoneme Pop is great for groups to play as part of a carousel of activities. The children take turns to pop the bubbles which match the sound they hear.

Techno Tortoise (!) is great for demonstrating how to use a numberline. There is a game too.

This Spanish interactive date chart will be useful next year.