Increase the potential in learning when using iPads. This is not about the best reading book app to use but how to use the iPad as a teaching tool, an independent or collaborative tool, and a creative tool. Find out how I used iPads in a 2 week teaching experience with a 1-1 class and hear

about how other teachers are using them in their rooms.

Creative ways to use

iPads in Reading and

Writing

© Jacqui Sharp 2013

iPad and iPod Touch

• Each take a turn at reading part of the story and record your voice

Buddy read

• Record yourself reading your speech and listen to it back again

Speech Writing

• Read your story and listen to the puppet say it back, could you hear if you used the right punctuation?

Proof read your story by hearing it

iPad only

• Reading activities, Writing frameworks

Graphic Organisers

• Organise your thoughts and ideas with pictures and words

Mindmapping

• Sort, compare, contrast

Supergroupers

iPad only

• Start with the characters name in the middle, add one describing word from the book

• Add synonyms, check that they will fit with the context of the story

• Add a note to each synonym with the word in a sentence that is in context with the story

Looking for synonyms

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iPad only

• Export to iBooks so students can read it like a book

Write a class daily entry

• The more fluent writers could write their own journals

Each child could have their own journal

http://ipadsipodsdevicesineducation.blogspot.co.nz/2012/11/starting-younger-children-reflecting.html

iPad only

• Create a scene print out or add to another app like Book Creator and add text

Create a story

iPad only

• Add student voice, movies, photos and text• Export to iBooks so students can read it like a

book

Publish a multimedia book

• Like Felt Board, Art Maker, Puppet Pals

Use with other apps

http://ipadsipodsdevicesineducation.blogspot.co.nz/2013/01/create-multimedia-book-with-book-creator.html#.UkjWxLw6R68

iPad only

• Have students record themselves writing, identify which letters are incorrectly formed

Letter formation

• How many words do you know that start with the letter ?

• Write all the words on this page that start with the blend ?

Add endings to words

iPad only

• Take a photo of a page in a book and ask students to circle or underline features of text

Find plurals, circle in red

• Take a photo of a character in a book and add descriptive words, make voice comments

Character Description

• Access photos from iPad and internet and add to your collage, add text and stickers

Publish your story

• Take a photo of a character in a book and add descriptive words from the text

Character Description

iPad and iPod Touch

• Pictures could be created in other apps like Paint & Create

Publish your stories

• Take a photo of a character in a book and add descriptive words

Character Description

Create Posters

iPad and iPod Touch

http://ipadsipodsdevicesineducation.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/photo-and-text-apps-1.html

• You cannot change fonts or size or add any pictures, distraction free

• Miss 1-2 lines after you have typed on a line, when printed out, editing marks can go on those empty lines

Type your stories

• More fun then writing them out on paper

Practise your spelling words

iPad and iPod Touch

http://ipadsipodsdevicesineducation.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/notes.html

• Use the drawing tools to make a book cover, add the title, author and illustrator

Make a Book Cover

• Use the drawing apps to draw scenes and characters from the book

Draw scenes from a story

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• Add text, URL, or movie links to the scene and tell us more about the book

Take a photo of a scene from the book

iPad and iPod Touch

http://www.thinglink.com/scene/441117490244747264

• Record your voice reading the story• Add the instruments one by one to make sound

effects or to provide background music• Share by sending to YouTube or iTunes

Make an Audiobook

iPad and iPod Touch

• If you have the full version you can take or use photos and cut out people to use as puppets

• Record your voices telling the story• Share to YouTube and embed on class website• Save as a movie and upload to Book Creator

Publish your story

• All members of the group have a character and read their part of the play and move the character at the same time

Record a Journal Story

iPad and iPod Touch

WritingToolkit

Computer iPad/iPod Touch Other Tools

Drafting

Publishing

WritersToolkit

Computer Online iPad/iPod Touch Other Tools

Drafting

Publishing

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