Easiteach Early Steps in Literacy

Interactive whole-class teaching

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Product Overview

SMART Board Approved

Interactive development of Phonic Skills

The teaching of phonics, as part of a literacy scheme, can have dramatic effects on pupil's attainment. Through the use of 'synthetic phonics' pupils' spelling and reading skills can be improved by up to three years, by the age of eleven!
Source - bbc.co.uk NEWS - Sounds 'help pupils with reading'. 11/02/2005
To read more about the study - click here

Easiteach® Early Steps in Literacy Content Pack provides a wealth of resources designed for use with Easiteach on an interactive whiteboard or other interactive whole class teaching technology.

The main focus of the pack is to provide teaching resources to encourage the development of phonics skills. The materials include support for key phonics schemes, such as Jolly Phonics which use the Synthetic Phonics method. In addition there is support for the Progression in Phonics and Code Breakers schemes.

The Easiteach Early Steps in Literacy Content Pack also provides a range of additional cross-curricular materials on popular topics and themes.

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Product Features

Support for the Phonics progression

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

The materials in the Easiteach Early Steps in Literacy Content Pack are designed for use with Easiteach and can be used with the whole-class or groups of students.

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Schoolzone review

This Content Pack comprises:

10 Illustrated nursery rhymes and related activities.
In excess of 150 whole class teaching files on phonics development, including support for the phonics progression suggested by the Progression in Phonics scheme, including its 2004 revision, Jolly Phonics and Code Breakers schemes. The files can be used as provided, or fine-tuned and adapted to meet specific teaching and/or learning focus.
8 Interactive activities from the popular Big Bus range of materials.
A series of games including 'Phonic Football', 'Feed the Dragon', 'Word search Creator and Player' and 'Word Wall' to support phonics activity in a whole class or group teaching environment.
20 whole class teaching files on popular Reception and Year 1 themes, such as 'You and Me' and 'Odd one out'.
selection of clipart for teachers to use in their own materials, and which has been commissioned specifically to support students in this age group.

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All the materials are made available in an easy to access index system, designed for use in an interactive whiteboard environment.

"To say that Early Steps contains lots of resources would definitely be an understatement"

ICT for Education, Summer Term 1 - (May 05)

"A massive and varied resource for primary teachers that will allow them to get more out of their whiteboard"

ICT for Education, Summer Term 1 - (May 05)

"I was very impressed by the activities on size as they demonstrate very clearly for children how size is relative.... It was refreshing to see that some of the games include 'boy' orientated content such as Feed the Dragon and Phonic Football.... For users of the Easiteach suite of software it will provide valuable additional teaching materials. It may take those who have not used Easiteach before a while to master all the features but the content of the Early Steps package is immediately accessible and quite easy to navigate. "

Emma Wilson, Literacy and SEN co-ordinator - from schoolzone review

Technical Information

Easiteach Early Steps in Literacy requires:

Microsoft® Windows® 98SE, ME, 2000 or XP
128MB RAM on Windows® 98SE, ME, 2000 and XP
400MHz
150MB hard disk space for the content pack

Recommended specification:

Microsoft® Windows® XP
256MB RAM on Windows® XP
1GHz
150MB hard disk space for the content pack

The pack is provided as a site licence, although each computer should already have a licensed copy of Easiteach installed.