Planet Wobble

Reading

Children can use the on-screen book to listen to the story. They can rehearse their reading and then try to read the printed book away from the computer.

• Use the 'hear' button to listen to the story.
• Build up fluency by reading along with the voice.
• Read the text and click on individual words - this enables reluctant or hesitant readers to attempt the text independently, getting the computer to 'help' as necessary.

The teacher can use the story to focus on particular teaching objectives and encourage the children to use context as part of their reading process.

• Check word recognition - ask the children to read a word and let them click on it to check.
• Delete focus words from the text - perhaps high-frequency words or character names.
• Read the text with the children and ask them to offer words which make sense.
• Leave the initial phoneme when deleting words, as an additional prompt. Then type in the next letter to refine suggestions.
• Type some of the suggestions into the gap. Read the revised text to see if it makes sense.
• Check the alternatives against the original text in the printed book. Giving the responsibility of checking with the printed book to a child could be a way of involving a reluctant reader in the lesson.
• Print out the page with gaps for the children to use away from computer - effectively you have created a cloze procedure based on the Planet Wobble story.

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“The range and quantity of computer activities enables all the children to benefit from working to their own potential and at their own level.” Jo Cummings, Technology Coordinator, Trial School