This document provides an overview of a workshop on supporting literacy with iPads in primary schools. It discusses how iPads can be used as one tool in a literacy-rich classroom to engage students with personalized activities. It then outlines several apps that can be used for activities like think alouds, visualizing comprehension, building vocabulary awareness, and more. The workshop concludes with an activity where teachers plan an iPad-integrated literacy lesson to share.

1. Supporting Literacy
with iPads
Primary
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2. Workshop slides
Download slides in PDF direct:
http://bit.ly/YP5L2v
Also available at Learning and Teaching with iPads
blogpost: Supporting literacy with iPads in Primary
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3. Literacy rich
environment
The iPad is one of many
tools that can be used in
the literacy rich
classroom to stimulate,
engage and provide
personalised activities to
support learners.
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4. Minimum of 100 minutes of
literacy instruction per day
See OSCAR for Focus 160 strategy
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5. Resources
• Focus 160 strategy on OSCAR
• Mindful Learning Mindful Teaching
Ning
• iPads for Literacy & Learning iBook
• Learning and Teaching with iPads
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6. Think alouds
Screencasting apps
• Educreations,
• ShowMe,
• ScreenChomp,
• Explain Everything
Mindmapping Apps
• eg Popplet,
• iCard sort
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7. Think alouds resource
Using Screenchomp, Dropbox and the iPads
for Think Alouds (Youtube video)
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8. Visualising for
comprehension
Read and Respond using Show Me on
the iPads
In this example, students draw as
teacher reads, and then record their
voices telling about their visualisation
(webpage).
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9. Purposeful talk
Use Apps like Safari,
YouTube or specific Apps
to engage students around
the reading activity.
Real life Wonky Donkey Youtube video
Wonky Donkey ebook App
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10. Read alouds
Use the iPad as a visualiser
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11. Re-enact the story
• Puppet Pals
• Sock Puppets
• Video by the Camera App
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12. Re-enact the story
Animation
- Animation Creator HD
- Doink
Stop motion
- iMotion HD
- iStopMotion
- My Create
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13. Build letter awareness
• rEd Writing • Mini Adventures
- Lets Go and
• iWW Lite Learn the
Aphabet
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14. Build vocabulary
awareness
Highly customisable free Apps
- create own lists, insert own images
and record audio.
• Bits Board
• Sight Words List
• Phonics Genius
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15. Reading on the iPad
Personalise to reading
levels using Google
Advanced search and
utilise accessibility ‘Speak
Selection’ function
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16. Reading on the iPad
Ebook Apps that read
aloud, highlight words
e.g., :
• Collins Big Cat Apps (free)
• Dr Seuss Book Apps
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17. Reading on the iPad
iBook store - Childrens and
Young Adults category
(samples for free)
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18. Finding quality eBook
Apps
• Kirkus Review iPad Book Apps
• See Mindful Learning Mindful
Teaching Ning
• Coming Term2/3 eBooks
platform for our schools
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19. Pre-writing activities
Create visual stories using
• Play School Art Maker
• Feltboard
• Doodle Buddy,
• Skitch
• Strip Designer
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20. Build on concepts and
understandings
Utilise Apps that can build on the
topics or book being read
e.g., for a Rainforest or Australian Animals
topic - you could use Wilderquest, Taronga
Zoo (Monkey Mayhem or Rainforest
Heroes) Apps
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21. Build on concepts and
understandings
Utilise the Ebscohost databases to
find relevant newspapers and
magazine articles about topics that
can be delivered to students via their
iPad.
• For students via Snet portal (https://
snet.parra.catholic.edu.au)
• For staff via Staffnet - Resources -
Library eResources
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22. Find Australian Apps to
support concept
building
Find Australian Apps
• List of Australian Government Apps
• List of NSW Government Apps
• App store - ‘Made in Australia’
category
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23. Identify stages of the
narrative
• Story Spine
• Toontastic
• Popplet
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24. Construct their own
version of the text
• Scribble Press
• Book creator
• Creative Book Builder
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25. Workshop Activity
• Structure a literacy lesson utilising the
iPad, Apps or a App that you have used
today.
• Share your lesson with your colleagues.
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26. Additional resources
• Jones, Matthew. "iPads and Kindergarten Students'
Literacy Development." SCAN: The Journal for
Educators 31.4 (2012): 31-38. Print.
• Dawson, Wendy. "Students create ebooks." SCAN:
The Journal for Educators 31.4 (2012): 15-20. Print.
www.scan.nsw.edu.au
Scan Journal available at Learning Exchange or at most school libraries.
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27. Additional resources
• iPad Apps for Guided Reading by Jane Farrall
• iSpy a Story by TechChef4U - example of school
using Spine Story
• The iTraits of Character by TechChef4U - 6th
graders using Sock Puppets to support character
analysis/development
• Writing and publishing with Creative Book Builder
from Learning and Teaching with iPads
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28. Additional resources
• Hutchison, Amy. "Exploring the Use of the IPad for Literacy
Learning." The Reading Teacher 66.1 (2012): 15-23. Web. 22
Mar. 2013.
Wondering how iPads measure up as a tool for literacy learning? This fourth-grade teacher explored the
use of iPads to help her teach print-based literacy skills while providing students with the opportunityto
learn digital literacy skills.
• Margareth, Sandvik, Smerdal Ole, and Osterud Svein. "Exploring
iPads in Practitioners 'Repertoires for Language Learning And
Literacy Practices in Kindergarten." Nordic Journal of Digial
Literacy 7.3 (2012): 204-220. Web. 23 Mar. 2013.
Explores the role of the iPad and a shared display as extensions of a practitioner’s repertoire for language
learning and literacy practices in a multicultural kindergarten multicultural kindergarten .
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29. Lisa Nash - Learning Exchange,
Catholic Education, Diocese of Parramatta
lisa.nash@parra.catholic.edu.au
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