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English Theme Page

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General Resources

Study Ladder

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Creative Writing Prompts

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

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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 - 
​Enter a noun and it gives you a bank of adjectives for that word. ​

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Pinterest Writing Ideas

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

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Procedural Writing

Let's make a pizza From Rocking Man Teaching Man

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Writing a Report

​From Heart Lake Literacy

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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
​First Line Impros 1
First Line Impros 2
​Talk About 1
​Talk About 2
Tell a Story 1
​Tell a Story 2
The Object Lesson 1
The Object Lesson 2
​The Object Lesson 3
​Name 3 things 1
Talk About 1
​Talk About 2
​Sports Talk About
Food Talk About
​Call my Bluff
​The Feelings Game 1
The Feelings Game 2

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Debates

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

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Idioms

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

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Memory Game

 Simon - eChalk

From Seomra Ranga
Pelamism 1: Homophones -
Pelmanism 3 - Homophones - 
Word Reversals 1
Word Reversals 2
Word Reversals 3

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Phonics

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

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Talking e Books

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How to get better at Writing.

Writing Skool for Kids

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Comprehension

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

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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

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News for Kids

CLiCnews
Here There Everywhere

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Sight Words

Sight Words
​Dolch Word Lists - Mrs Perkins

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English as a second language

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

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​Spellings

Online Dictionary - Kids Wordsmyth
Thesaurus
Rhyming Dictionary - Rhyme Zone
Online Illustrated Dictionary - Kids Wordsmyth
Spelling City
Spelling Bee Game School A to Z 

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Audio Books

Storynory - Free Audio Books

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Children's Novels

St Colman's Children's Novels Theme Page

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