Easiteach Animated Books

Higher level of reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.

The Animated Books Content Packs contain a variety of Animated Tales, Animated Poems and Animated Facts. The Tales/Poems are beautifully illustrated with original artwork to combine the best of picture-book art with lively detailed animations and interactive activities specifically designed to fit the content and style of each text. The Facts offer the classic features of different non-fiction texts within an animated and interactive context.

The popular materials in these content packs have been developed by Hamilton Reading Project and link directly to weekly plans, accompanying pupil activity sheets, poster books, teacher notes and additional materials to make this a truly content-rich set of resources.

Easiteach Animated Books Content Packs

Please note: To use the Content Packs you must already have Easiteach installed on your computer.

The Animated Tales offer an exciting way of bringing a picture book to the computer screen because they are especially written and designed for interactive use, combining innovative, colourful animation with the spoken voice.

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They cover a wide range of story themes: a trip to the future, a boy who will not get up in the mornings and the magic in a rucksack. These tales allow children to draw on their own experiences, and also provide the explicit references necessary for planning creative teaching within an NLS framework. Each Tale incorporates vocabulary activities that 'pop-up' within the screens. These activities can be completed with the whole class as a teaching exercise, or with groups or individuals as an independent activity.

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With Animated Poems, classic works by Thomas Hardy, Christina Rossetti and Lewis Carroll are included, along with poems written especially to accompany work on specific themes. Traditional rhymes are also a feature, including adaptations in which repetition and rhyme are used as part of a language enrichment agenda.

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The Animated Facts are totally original teaching resources, which have been specifically designed around the demands of teaching English, offering all the classic features of non-fiction facts; different types of layout, real and drawn images. They provide teachers with all the necessary information for an exciting non-fiction topic, in which sustained work on a particular text type, e.g. persuasive writing, is not only modelled but also engendered.

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For all Animated Tales, Poems and Facts, there is also a Poster Book, which includes a printable version of the text and activities. These Poster Books provide a set of between 8-20 pages incorporating both the text and a selection of pictures and can be used in a variety of ways.

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For each Year group and term, Hamilton Reading Project have written and selected texts which reflect the range and which can be used to help deliver the objectives of the Foundation Curriculum and the NLS. These texts are often exceptional in terms of the language and art, and also in relation to the impact they have on their readers. The accompanying weekly plans, teaching activities and resources are organised according to the structure of the Literacy Hour, with whole-class work on text, sentence and word, followed by group activities.

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Three packs are available:

• Foundation and KS1
• KS2
• Foundation, KS1 and KS2

Each pack contains 21 books, plus associated resources and weekly lesson plans that can be adapted to meet the needs of individual teaching styles and the specific demands of each classroom. The packs can be purchased separately or together as a 'bundle' at a reduced price.

Easiteach Animated Books requires:

• Microsoft® Windows® 98SE, ME, 2000 or XP
• 128MB RAM on Windows® 98SE, ME, 2000 and XP
• 400MHz

Recommended specification:

• Microsoft® Windows® XP 
• 256MB RAM on Windows® XP 
• 1GHz

Hard disk space:

• Easiteach Animated Books (KS1) Content requires 200MB hard disk space.
• Easiteach Animated Books (KS2) Content requires 250MB hard disk space.
• Easiteach Animated Books (F, KS1&2) Content requires 450MB hard disk space.

NB Customers wanting to run Easiteach v3.4 require Windows XP or higher.