St Colman's Boys' School, Kanturk.
Percival St.,Kanturk, Co.Cork
​Eircode : P51NW14
Tel : 029 50768
Email : office@kanturkbns.com
Twitter: @colmansbns
Principal : Eilish Finnegan
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English Theme Page

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General Resources

Study Ladder

Creative Writing Prompts

100 Word Challenge
5 Sentence Challenge 
The Literacy Shed
​Story Starts
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Daily Writing Prompts - Toasted Cheese
​Story Starters
 - Scholastic
Popple 365 - One Picture - One Teaching Resource Every Day


General Writing 

 Words to Use
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5 Elements of a Story - Seomra Ranga
Components of a Story - Seomra Ranga
Setting the Scene - Seomra Ranga
New Beginnings for Writing - Seomra Ranga
Happy Endings for Writing - Seomra Ranga

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Writing Cube - Interactive  - Read Write Think
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First Steps: Narrative Writing- Ms Forde's Blog
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Describing Words - 
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Enter a noun and it gives you a bank of adjectives for that word. ​

Pinterest Writing Ideas

Sentence Starters
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Story Maps
Recount Writing
Persuasive Writing
Procedural Writing
Narrative Writing
​Informational Writing
Report Writing
5 Senses - Sensory Words
Sound Words
Show Feelings NOT Tell

Procedural Writing

Let's make a pizza From Rocking Man Teaching Man

Writing a Report

​From Heart Lake Literacy

Oral Language Resources from Seomra Ranga

Game: Don't Mention it 1
​Story Box 
Ask a Question 1
Ask a Question 2
​Fictional Movie Reviews 1
Fictional Movie Reviews 2
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First Line Impros 1
First Line Impros 2
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Talk About 1
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Talk About 2
Tell a Story 1
​Tell a Story 2
The Object Lesson 1
The Object Lesson 2
​The Object Lesson 3
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Name 3 things 1
Talk About 1
​Talk About 2
​Sports Talk About
Food Talk About
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Call my Bluff
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The Feelings Game 1
The Feelings Game 2

Debates

Debates - Seomra Ranga
Primary Debating Ireland
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Debating - Speeches - Oral Presentations - Ms O' Reilly's Ed Blog

Idioms

Idioms - Seomra Ranga
Idioms Video - Merrybeau
Idiom Quiz - Merrybeau

Answers to Idiom Quiz - Merrybeau

Memory Game

 Simon - eChalk

From Seomra Ranga
Pelamism 1: Homophones -

Pelmanism 3 - Homophones - 
Word Reversals 1
Word Reversals 2
Word Reversals 3


Phonics

Phonic Cards - ai - ay -oa - ow -Scoilnet

Talking e Books


How to get better at Writing.

Writing Skool for Kids

Comprehension

Guiding Comprehension - Teaching for Meaning - PDST
​Reading Strategies - The Classroom Key 

Poetry

From Read Write Think
​Acrostic Poems - Interactive

Diamonte Poems - Interactive
Theme Poems - Interactive

The Life & Work of W.B. Yeats - Seomra Ranga
​MagicBoard Poetry


News for Kids

CLiCnews
Here There Everywhere

Sight Words

Sight Words
​Dolch Word Lists - Mrs Perkins

English as a second language

ESLaloud A site with easy poems for young children learning English as a second language

​Spellings

Online Dictionary - Kids Wordsmyth
Thesaurus
Rhyming Dictionary - Rhyme Zone

Online Illustrated Dictionary - Kids Wordsmyth
Spelling City
Spelling Bee Game School A to Z 

Audio Books

Storynory - Free Audio Books

Children's Novels

St Colman's Children's Novels Theme Page


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