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Teachers in adopting classes at all levels of the Word Wizard series have easy access to extra digital resources on www.gillexplore.ie, our resources platform:

Unit 14

Check Your Work

Teacher’s Digital Resources

Not Yet

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The Procedure: Did you include … an aim (with a description of the effects of the food) equipment ingredients method evaluation label diagrams to accompany the steps of the method

• Self-assessment checklists • Writing frames/templates • Yearly Overview Planning Document • Monthly Aistear Plans (Junior and Senior Infants) • Printable Aistear Resources (Junior and Senior Infants) Aistear Plan

Procedural language: Did you use … General and specific nouns and pronouns? Time words? Command action verbs? Detailed, factual adjectives? How, where, when adverbs? and was the reader referred to in a general way, or not at all?

Your writing: Have you used good … spelling? grammar? punctuation?

Your thoughts: What do you like about writing procedures? _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________

Literacy Sk

Aim: ____________________________________________________________________ Description: _______________________________________________________

Introduce topic Unit 1 Oral language Activity – The Fancy Dress Shop

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Unit: 3–4 Topic: Halloween Time frame: 4 weeks

HALLOWEEN

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Area 1: Drama – Roleplay The Fancy Dress Shop You can set up a fancy dress shop with a desk, a cash register, pretend money, hangers, full length mirror, various children’s costumes. These could include: witch, vampire, clown, devil, ghost, skeleton, pumpkin, pirate, fairy, princess, wizard, etc. The following resources are supplied: sign for ‘Fancy Dress Shop’, open/closed sign, please pay here sign, price list for purchase or hire, price tags, badges for sales person and manager, changing room sign, accessories sign, order form for purchasing and hiring costumes. Possible role play scenarios include: º Sales person serving a customer – asking do they want to buy the costume or hire it º Customer trying on a costume º Customer returning a costume º Ordering stock

Area 2: Construction

Build a cauldron for the witch from the story Room on the Broom. Pupils can

explore building a curved structure that will not fall down by alternating how they join the bricks.

Encourage pupils to work as part of a group or build in pairs. Supply witches hats, yellow, red, orange, black and green crepe paper to create the flames and coals under the cauldron and the green slime spilling out of the bubbling cauldron.

Equipment

Ingredients

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Other suggestions: build a kitchen, a house or a more elaborate house with different rooms.

Can they draw or create the three items the witch added to her potion in Room

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include seats for the witch, cat and dog, a nest for the bird and a shower for the frog.

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What our teacher reviewers think: ‘I am very impressed – the series is very comprehensive and very well written. There is an excellent variety of activities and I really like the assessment templates provided for selfassessment. I can’t wait to use it with my own class!’ 5th Class teacher, Dublin

‘Overall I felt these fit excellently into the Aistear framework. There is a clear integration between the English language curriculum and the Aistear framework. There is a lot of opportunity for oral language and vocabulary development while still providing the children with the opportunity to learn through play.’ Junior Infants teacher, Co. Meath

‘The authors have brought a fresh, innovative approach to the development of English language skills.’ 1st Class teacher, Tipperary

About the authors Jane O’Loughlin teaches in Swords Educate Together NS, Co. Dublin, and has a wide range of experience teaching in both DEIS and Educate Together schools. She trained with the Dyslexia Association of Ireland and is the author of the successful Sounds Good Phonics programme. Alison Ginnell is an experienced primary school teacher who has taught at many different class levels. She currently teaches in Hansfield Educate Together NS, Dublin 15. Lorraine Lawrance teaches in Scoil Aiséirí Chríost primary school in Cork and has a Masters in Education with reading comprehension as a focus. She spent two years as a research team member for the Building Bridges of Understanding programme.

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on the Broom; a lily, a cone, a twig and a bone.

Other suggestions: build the magnificent broom featured at the end of the story;

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Word Wizard is a brand new strategies-based series for teaching literacy skills from Junior Infants to 6th Class. Mapped to the most recent curriculum changes, the series is designed to be used with any core English programme. Each level devised using appropriate strategies: Aistear and phonics at junior levels and comprehension strategies at senior levels. Integrated genre approach to teaching literacy skills as recommended by the PDST and in line with new curriculum guidelines. Self-assessment opportunities, including traffic lights and checklists, encourage pupils to be owners of their own learning in line with AfL guidelines.

Word Wizard package includes:

Pupils’ books from Junior Infants–6th Class FREE* teacher eBook FREE* digital teacher resources on www.gillexplore.ie, our smart, reliable and easy-touse resources platform

Revision and assessment units allow teachers to monitor pupil progress, plan accordingly and provide effective feedback.

For more information on this title, contact your local sales representative. You will find their contact details on www.gilleducation.ie/primary. Say ‘hello’ on Twitter @GillEducation Gill 2_1 Word Wizard.indd 2-3

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WHAT MAKES

STAND OUT FROM THE REST? Skill

Topic

UNIT 10: Narrative 2

Comprehension Strategies

P, Q, WA, I

Reading and Comprehension

Yellow-spotted Lizards

Phonics

‘-ssion’

Grammar

Speech Marks

Oral Language, Writing Genre

Edit and Rewrite (Magical Mishap Story), Drama

Comprehension Strategies

Q, WA, Sy, DI, I

Reading and Comprehension

Nepal

Phonics

‘-ation’

Grammar

The Apostrophe

Oral Language, Writing Genre

Plan and Draft (Country Report), Debate

Comprehension Strategies

P, MC, I, DI, S

Reading and Comprehension

Steve Jobs

Phonics

‘-ify’

Grammar

Prepositions

Oral Language, Writing Genre

Edit and Rewrite (Country Report), Art

Comprehension Strategies

V, MC, I, Q

Reading and Comprehension

Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl

Phonics

‘-ough’

Grammar

Verb Tenses

Oral Language, Writing Genre

Plan and Draft (Diary Entry), Drama

Comprehension Strategies

MC, Q, WA, DI, Sy

Reading and Comprehension

Rebellion in the Capital

Phonics

Homonyms

Grammar

Conjunctions

Oral Language, Writing Genre

Edit and Rewrite (Diary Entry), Art

Comprehension Strategies

P, V, Sy, P

Reading and Comprehension

‘The Sound Collector’ by Roger McGough

Phonics

Rhyming Words

Grammar

Idioms and Proverbs

Oral Language, Writing Genre

Poetry Writing, Music

Vocabulary

MC, Q, I, DI, S, Sy

Reading and Comprehension

Nuclear Energy: Friend or Foe?

Phonics

‘-ous’ and ‘-ious’

Grammar

Sentences

Writing

Plan and Draft (Persuasive Letter), Drama

Vocabulary

P, Q, DI, Sy

Reading and Comprehension

Which Tour?

98−99

Phonics

‘-tious’

Grammar

Parts of Speech

Writing

Edit and Rewrite (Persuasive Letter), Art

Revision

Grammar and Phonics

Assessment

Phonics

105

Reading

Sadko the Minstrel − a Traditional Russian Tale

106

Assessment

Comprehension and Vocabulary

107

Assessment

Grammar

108

UNIT 11: Report 1

Contents

Junior and Senior Infants

iv−v

•

Genre is at the centre of the learning through

allowing for easy planning

• Self-assessment tools follow phonics and handwriting activities

Phonics

Visual Discrimination

Matching (Kitchen Items)

Phonics

Oral Language

The Kitchen (Auditory Discrimination)

Phonics

Visual Discrimination

Matching (Food Items)

Phonics

Blending

s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d

Writing Genre

Oral Report (My News)

UNIT 3: Recount 2

Oral Language

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Visual Discrimination

Matching (Hallowe’en Items)

Phonics

Revision (s, a, t, p, i, n)

bridging the gap between phonics and reading practice

Revision (m, d, e, c)

25 26

Visual Discrimination

Matching (Letters)

Phonics

Blending

k, g, r, h

Writing Genre

Shared Writing (My News)

your hat. 1. Hang upPhonics had big, 2. Mum Orala Language UNIT 5: Recount red4 bag.Phonics

monkey

28 29 30 31 32 33

zookeeper

35 36

The Doctor’s Surgery o

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Sight Words

the, to, and

Blending

hadGenre a 4. The manWriting Oral Language UNIT 6: cap and a hat. To Socialise 1 Phonics

Blending Genreof 6. Dan hadWriting a pair

Oral Language UNIT 7: green 2boots. To Socialise Phonics Phonics

7. I got a hat and a scarf in the shop.

o, l, b, u The Doctor (Rhyming Words 2)

42 43 44

he, a, I

UNIT 16: Persuasive Writing 1

strongly linked to genre writing

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Pupils plan and draft a piece of writing in unit 1

and edit and rewrite in unit 2

• Comprehension strategies expose pupils to a variety of engaging activities designed to enhance their comprehension skills before, during and after reading

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86−87

90 91 92−93

100 101 102 103−104

Dictation

109

Cloze Procedure Answerst

113

checklists are available to teachers online

• A cloze procedure closely linked to the Why do we brush our teeth? My name

Check Your Work

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Explanatory Did you use a title? Did you say what it was? Did you describe it? Did you explain how it works? Did you include an interesting fact?

Punctuation

Unit 4

Language Curriculum with Strands, Elements and Learning Outcomes referenced on each page

• Editable writing frames and self-assessment

Editable writing frames and self-assessment

• Content that is mapped to the new Primary

78 80−81

SPHE topics and include emails, texts, etc.

Explanatory Checklist

the end of the second and third term

• Comprehensions integrate with SESE and

Self-assessment tools are presented following

• Two dedicated assessment units provided at

72 74−75

strongly linked to genre writing

All books at the junior level have:

x y

to each genre

checklists are available to teachers online

66 68−69

Strand: Oral Language Elements: Understanding LO 5, 6, 7; Exploring and Using LO 8, 9, 14

• Oral language activities and grammar are

•

Santa’s Workshop

Three units (two weeks per unit) are dedicated

grammar and dictation activities in each unit

60 62−63

f, j, v, z Modelled Writing (Get Well Card)

decoding skills

•

UNIT 17: Persuasive Writing 2

Unit 18: Revision and Assessment

• Fun and engaging phonics games develop •

UNIT 14: Recount 2

UNIT 15: Poetry

• Oral language activities and grammar are

rhino

UNIT 13: Recount 1

55 56−57

v z

How do I feel about my work today? Strand: Reading Element: Understanding LO 5

giraffe

Independent Writing (Classroom Visit)

to each genre with the first unit exploring structure and the second unit exploring language and grammar

on a blue 3. Dad putPhonics Phonics tie.

seal

Phonics

Sight Words paint 5. She spilled Phonics on her coat. Phonics

• Phonics are linked with comprehensions

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• Two units (two weeks per unit) are dedicated

Blending

Phonics

1st and 2nd Class

The Fancy Dress Shop

Phonics Phonics

3rd to 6th Class

The Zoo

• Themes span two units (a month’s work)

Breakfast

Aistear plans and integration of Aistear themes

Topic

Oral Language

Unit 11 Narrative 3

• Clear linkage with Aistear through monthly

Skill

UNIT 1: Myself and My Family

Unit 15 Report 3

a range of modelled, shared and independent writing activities

Unit / Genre

UNIT 2: Recount 1

UNIT 12: Report 2

Page/s

How to Use this Book

Page

Unit / Genre

comprehension text has been included in each unit

• Genre writing includes step-by-step guidelines and a greater emphasis on self-directed learning opportunities

• Self-assessment tools follow phonics and

grammar activities, with two dedicated assessment units at the end of the first and second term

Did you remember capital letters: Did you remember full stops? Did you use finger spaces? Did you like writing an explanation?

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Always

Sometimes

✔

Teachers in adopting classes at all levels of the Word Wizard series have easy access to extra digital resources on www.gillexplore.ie, our resources platform:

Unit 14

Check Your Work

Teacher’s Digital Resources

Not Yet

✘

The Procedure: Did you include … an aim (with a description of the effects of the food) equipment ingredients method evaluation label diagrams to accompany the steps of the method

Your writing: Have you used good … spelling? grammar? punctuation?

Your thoughts: What do you like about writing procedures? _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________

Literacy Sk

Aim: ____________________________________________________________________ Description: _______________________________________________________

Introduce topic Unit 1 Oral language Activity – The Fancy Dress Shop

_ By:

_______________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________

OrA l lAn guA

PhO nic s gAm ge

gen re wr itin

ills and Activ

PhO nic s gAm ge

OrA l lAn guA

gen re wr itin

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grA mm Ar

hAn dw rit ing

Literacy Sk

OrA l lAn guA

PhO nic s

gen re wr itin

Literacy Sk

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Ais teA r

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ills and Activ

Ais teA r

Unit: 3–4 Topic: Halloween Time frame: 4 weeks

HALLOWEEN

ities

ills and Activ

Literacy Sk

VOc Abu lAry

gen re wr itin

VOc Abu lAry

Area 2: Construction

Build a cauldron for the witch from the story Room on the Broom. Pupils can

explore building a curved structure that will not fall down by alternating how they join the bricks.

Equipment

Ingredients

_____________________________________

Other suggestions: build a kitchen, a house or a more elaborate house with different rooms.

Can they draw or create the three items the witch added to her potion in Room

ghlin Jane O‘Lou

Literacy Sk

ities

ills and Activ

Literacy Sk

res wr itin g gen siO n cOm Pre hen str Ate gie s OrA l lAn guA ge

ills and Activ

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res

cOm Pre hen str Ate gie s siO n

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include seats for the witch, cat and dog, a nest for the bird and a shower for the frog.

OrA l lAn guA

cOm Pre hen str Ate gie s

clO ze PrO ced ure

PhO nic s

grA mm Ar PhO nic s

ce raine Lawran

Lor

‘The authors have brought a fresh, innovative approach to the development of English language skills.’ 1st Class teacher, Tipperary

Lorraine La

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ities

ills and Activ

Literacy Sk

ills and Activ

wr itin g gen

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on the Broom; a lily, a cone, a twig and a bone.

Other suggestions: build the magnificent broom featured at the end of the story;

Jane O‘Lou ghlin

ghlin Jane O‘Lou

Jane O‘Lou ghlin

ities

res

cOm Pre hen str Ate gie s siO n

siO n

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ure

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grA mm Ar

grA mm Ar PhO nic s

PhO nic s

ll Alison Ginne

Alison Ginne

Word Wizard package includes:

Pupils’ books from Junior Infants–6th Class FREE* teacher eBook FREE* digital teacher resources on www.gillexplore.ie, our smart, reliable and easy-touse resources platform

Revision and assessment units allow teachers to monitor pupil progress, plan accordingly and provide effective feedback.

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