Llengua anglesa a primària. Competència digital

The main aim now is to practise directions with our students through reading and listening to the story The treasure map, that it is included in the LearnEnglishKids section of the British Council site.

This web site, as you will see in other modules and practises, offer the teacher lots of learning resources classified according to kind of activity (games, print and do, songs, stories and get writing).

• Go to the story The tresure map in the Learn EnglishKids stories section (http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-treasure-map.htm)

• Once in this page and in order to read and listen to the story, click here:

• A new window pops-up

and two possibilities are offered:

• to make a puzzle by dragging the pieces of the puzzle that are on the right to the correct place in the puzzle
• to start the story by clicking on the Start button
• Click on Start. The animated flash movie will start.

The story does not go through the pages automatically to allow the students to carefully read it or review the previous page by clicking on Back. The can follow their own rate of work. Students can move from the story to the map by clicking on the View map and Close map buttons that appear on the screen. This option allows them to see the directions in practise.

• Once the story is finished, they can play it again or, by closing the pop-up window, they can practise directions through a game or find words from the treasure map in a wordsearch

• Methodology: The activity can be put into practise in cicle mitjà. The first part (listening to the story and reading it) can be done either in the class by using a laptop/computer with internet connection and a beamer or in the computer room in pairs with headphones.

Previously it is advisable to revise with the students the vocabulary related to directions.

• Timing: an hour session (depending on the amount of activities you want to do)
• Resources: Computers with Internet connection and headphones.

Have a deeper look at this frame to have more resources on stories.

GAME GOO (http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/gooeyhome.html) page has lots of fun reading and writing games. Educational games that help develop early reading skills. Beginner, intermediate and advanced level to choose. Do not forget that are pages for English children, so the beginner level may be for cicle mitjà.