Review:Reading for Success Books 1-4 published by Prim-Ed The Reading for Success Books have been written based on latest research and designed to help teachers direct lessons and independent pupil activities in five areas of reading. The research that the authors use is focussed on teaching reading by phonemic awareness, vocabulary, phonics, comprehension and fluency. … Read more
Review:How to Create Calm Dining Halls by Jenny Mosley This book aims to help schools with creating calm dining spaces, it also aims to encourage good manners, positive social skills and genuine enjoyment of the lunch or dining time slot in the school day. Most primary schools in Ireland do not have the luxury of … Read more
Review: New Wave Pre-Writing Patterns by Prim-Ed Publishing I have a couple of products to review from the well-known scheme of Pre-Writing Patterns. They are designed to be used to help with pre-writing skills so I am thinking they are most suited to an infant class and/or a support class setting. The New Wave Pre-Writing … Read more
Review: Comprehension and Critical Thinking Digital Games:Prim-Ed You may have read my reviews on Prim-Ed’s Maths Games Galore and now we have the Language Games Galore to look at! There are two Cds in this particular series, A and B with emphasis being laid on different aspects of the Language curriculum. They are designed to be … Read more
Review&Competition:Language Games Galore-CD ROM Anseo.net have been sent a whole bundle of wonderful CD-ROMs from Prim-Ed and they have also kindly offered us some for this month’s competition. I’m going to look at the Letters and Sounds and the Rhyming Words CD-ROMS together as they link things really well in terms of what an infant … Read more
Review:The Literacy Box 1-3 from Prim-Ed If you have read my review on Writing Prompts box from Prim-ed, you will know that I loved the cuteness of the cards in the teacher box! The Literacy Boxes 1-3 are even cuter but on a larger scale! The Literacy Box series is a set of three boxes … Read more
Review: 101 activities to help children get on with each together by Jenny Mosley and Helen Sonnet Again, as seems to be the case with my recent reviews of the Jenny Mosley’s books, the title gives away the contents! We are coming into a busy and challenging time for teachers and students. Children are full … Read more
NOTE: New version has been released. This is a repost of original review with some new details. The old cliché goes that sometimes the simplest ideas are the best and Gareth Hanlon of EyeSeeGames has come up with a really simple idea that works. His product, Dyce Game, is an educational game played with 8 … Read more
The Interactive Whiteboard is dead! Long live the Interactive Touchscreen! This is what people who are selling the next generation of interactive devices would hope to be the case since the slowdown in the sales of Interactive Whiteboards in the last few years. After the craze of Interactive Whiteboards from around 2008 to 2011 in primary … Read more
Review: Cé mhéad cat? Smarty Cat Games We have been sent some very attractive and colourful games from Smarty Cat Games. They are to help with the learning of Gaeilge. There are two board games, one for Aimsir Chaite/Aimsir Fháistineach and the other for Aimisr Chaite/Láithreach. Inside the box, we have a spinner board, verb … Read more