Teachers at Green Bay School have been working since 2008 on improving our students' written language skills.  We have been using asTTle as our assessment tool, for Years 4-8 students, and the English exemplars for Y1-3.  We are working towards training our students to be able to know what their level of achievment is, know where they are heading in order to meet the expected benchmark, and know how to plan their next steps for learning.

Click on the links below to find lots of ideas and games to support your literacy skills

WRITING

This website gives great advice about the different types of writing
http://languagearts.pppst.com/writing.html

A whole variety of writing games here
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/stacks/games/

An American classroom website with lots of writing options
http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/writing/Kids_Writing.html

Make an e postcard
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/cards/


SPELLING & PHONICS

Spelling games
http://www.britannica.co.nz/pages.asp?page=/pages/games

Phonics games and learning
http://www.astepatatime.co.nz/Free%20online%20games%20and%20videos.htm

More spelling games
http://www.knowledgeadventure.com/spelling-games.htm

Learn to read with Phonics
http://www.starfall.com/


READING

Reading games
http://www.learningtoday.com/corporate/reading-games.asp

Literacy games for Juniors
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html

A great site for helping kids make the links between reading and thinking
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/

Make an online comic
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/index.html

Eat the letters in alphabetical order
http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/frog/Flash/frog.html

ABC ordering game
http://www.learningplanet.com/act/abcorder.asp

Organising library books
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/flood.html

An interactive reading site - Welcome to Clutterbuck Valley
http://www.superpages.com/enlightenme/superthinkers/pages/welcome.html?