Our school login and password: jepslibrary@gmail.com      jannali

Make beautiful, uncluttered online posters with Smore https://www.smore.com/app?ref=logo
Use them to share resources and showcase students’ work.
Encourage students to use them for information reports, recounts, book reviews and posters.

Literacy resources reminder – check them out!

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/kids-news Great for writing prompts, responses, reading and comprehension

https://readtheory.org/  ReadTheory is a K-12 online reading comprehension program that presents assessments to students at a “just right” level. 

https://www.getepic.com/  Free ebooks that can be differentiated for your students

https://newsela.com/    an Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every KLA.

Writing conference forms  Tick a box writing feedback forms

Learning to infer   Videos to help students learn to infer.   More videos here http://www.literacyshed.com/

http://www.pobble365.com  A free classroom resource that aims to engage young people in creative writing. A different image and writing activities every day of the year.https://onceuponapicture.wordpress.com/     Creative writing picture prompts

https://onceuponapicture.wordpress.com/thecollections/   Once Upon a Picture collections

Encourage your students to be curious and question.

Perfect five-minute breaks for your classroom

• Morning meeting
• Snack time
• After recess
• Transitions
• Rewards
• Warm-ups

The purpose of Pobble 365 (formerly Picture of the Day) is to make it easy for busy teachers to create engaging lessons. Every day, you can find an interesting picture to spark a lesson, together with writing prompts and philosophical questions that you can use with your students on a smartboard screen, or printed out with our easy-to-use PDFs.

Teachers now have access to this exciting resource whatever their time zone or term time. And so Picture of the Day became Pobble 365.

Pobble365 brings a new exciting image every single day of the year and it now has its own dedicated website. This allows us to better display our fantastic images in an even more engaging way and we have provided ‘in-lesson’ and pdf downloadable formats. So, whenever you feel you need a spark to ignite your pupils’ writing, head to pobble365.com and check out this free resource.

Here is an example:

 

 

 

 

Our goal this year is to have every student complete the Challenge!

The Premier’s Reading Challenge is a wonderful way in which to encourage our children to read for enjoyment. It begins on Monday, March 1st. Books that have been read since September, 2020 can be entered online from this date. Start writing down your books now!

There is a free Premier’s Reading Challenge app for Apple and Android. Download it now and keep track of all your reading!

https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html The username and password are the same as your school internet login details.

K-2 students are to read or have 30 books read to them.

3-6 students are to read 20 books. 5 books can be own choice.

The challenge finishes on Friday, August 20th, 2021. All entries must be completed by this date.

 

 

Australian Education Resources
A great variety of resources are available from this website. There are facts, general information and curriculum linked lesson plans and activity sheets
Australian Government Harmony Day Resources for schools
Australian Government Harmony Day Lesson Plans

Twinkl resources 
Harmony Day webquest

How it works

Kidsnews.com.au is a ready-to go literacy resource for teachers using current daily news stories for students in the classroom.

The content is written into educational stories in child appropriate language and filtered/censored to remove any inappropriate content or imagery. The site does not link to any outside news sources or sites, therefore pupils can use it safely in an unsupervised environment or for independent learning.

Kids News is suitable for children from Grade 3 to Year 8, although teachers tell us it is being used with some students above and below this range.

The Articles

Three new articles are added to kidsnews.com.au each school day.
All new content is featured at the top of the homepage. The articles are divided into two main categories which have been tested as most popular with students:

1. News — covering current affairs, key curriculum topics, interesting stories about people, animals and things
2. Sport — Australian and international sports events and people.
3. News stories are also sub-categorised into Key Topics which include:

• SCIENCE
• HISTORY
• SPACE
• WEATHER
• ANIMALS
• HEALTH
• GEOGRAPHY
• CIVICS
• HUMANITIES
• TECHNOLOGY
• ENVIRONMENT
• MONEY
• EXPLAINERS
• JUST FOR FUN
• ARTS
• MATHEMATICS
• SAFE KIDS

 

Each article, which can be viewed in digital format or printed, includes:

• A headline, lead image and text.
• Multiple secondary images help tell the story visually and sometimes articles contain picture galleries.
• We have included an audio file (using SoundCloud) so students can listen to the text as they read and assist with comprehension.
• Each story contains a Glossary of terms and words that students may be unfamiliar with.
• Video is included where possible.
• A feedback comments box is featured at the base of the article and children are encouraged to write their thoughts on the news stories. These comments are moderated by Kids News and comments posted on the stories. Comments that include a student’s surname will not be published. Encourage students to write comments that contribute to the views of the article

Reading level of articles

A traffic light system to help teachers direct students to appropriate content depending on their comprehension levels.

• Green– Simple to medium vocab, story content easily understood, accessible to all readers (especially with audio option)
• Orange– medium level of vocabulary, story content a little more complex but still able to be read and understood at middle to senior primary level (audio option and glossary to assist)
• Red – contains complex vocabulary and content that is of a higher level, suited to more able readers, requires teacher scaffolding for less capable readers.

Classroom Activities

Kids News provides 3 classroom activities per news article. These are written by teachers for teachers and are linked directly to the Australian curriculum.

The activities vary each day and are specific to the article. Each activity also includes an extension for higher students. The types of activities include:

• Written projects for literacy, comprehension and storytelling.
• Art projects
• Geography
• Speech writing
• Persuasive text
• Maths etc.

There are also daily VCOP (vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation) activities on each article.

Everyday Activities

Under Everyday Activities, teachers can find secondary everyday classroom activities that can be used for ALL Kids News news article. These are:

• Harness a Headline
• The 5 Ws
• Grammar, Go! Focus on adjectives, punctuation etc.
• Fact v opinion
• Read to remember. Memory activity.

Archive

We have a rich collection of previously published stories filtered under each category and colour coding.
You can find the colour coding in the navigation bar.
You can search for curriculum based content under KEY TOPICS.

Or you can search using the Search Bar for any key words or topics.

Kids News Newsletter

Teachers who sign up receive an email at 8pm alerting them to the latest Kids News headlines for the following day.

The newsletter allows teachers to plan and prepare lessons ahead of time for the next morning.

Sign up for the newsletter on the homepage where you see SIGN UP FREE

How is Kiddle designed specifically for kids?

Why not try it out?