LiteracyOnBoard
DLK Literacy OnBoard is a suite of ten low cost - high quality software titles designed specifically for Interactive White-board use.
These are not teacher replacement or Power Point type presentations, they are teacher tools.
The price for a full site licence is just £21 per title, or only £157 for all ten! (plus vat including postage).
LetterSlider
Vocabulary extension and spelling are the objectives in this activity.
Words with 3, 4 or 5 letters are shown with some or all the letters
hidden, along with clues to the word that are revealed by the teacher.
SentenceChanger
The teacher selects the number of sentences to be changed or joined. The
words may be simply dragged and dropped to new locations, words added
and removed, etc. Lists of conjunctions, etc. may be shown.
WordInWord
Four large words are shown with letters missing, and four smaller words
are shown that fit into the larger words. The smaller words are dragged
into the larger words.
Punctuation
A sentence is shown with missing punctuation and / or incorrect upper /
lower case letters. Punctuation marks are dragged into position and case
corrected. The punctuation marks to be omitted are selected by the
teacher.
Arranger
Sentences are shown that when arranged in the correct order form a
logical sequence or story. The task is to drag the sentences into the
correct order.
WordMachine
Phonetics practice with the letters of 3, 4 or five letter words
represented by images having the same initial sound. The letters are
revealed by the teacher with a single click.
ConsonantVowel
The traditional game made popular by the television programme Countdown.
The number of letters to be drawn may be varied between four and ten. At
any point the potential or possible words may be shown.
EndStart
Four words are shown at the foot of the board, these are dragged to the
letters in the body of the board to form the end of the left hand word
and the start of the right hand word.
KimsGame
A variable number of images are shown on two adjacent "tables". One
table is covered, then the cover is moved over the other table. The task
is to perceive which of the images have been moved, replaced or removed.
VerbUse
Three similar sentences are shown, along with three question marks. The
teacher clicks on the question marks to reveal forms of the same verb.
The task is to drag the verbs into the correct position.