How will i-read help me to embed ICT into my literacy teaching?
i-read has been developed in line with the Primary National Strategy recommendations promoting the use of ICT texts as an integral part of children’s reading and of teachers’ tools for teaching. The following points have therefore been kept in mind: • the fact that teachers do not want to abandon previously effective use of resources when offered all that a whiteboard offers; • the need to offer teachers a resource that supports the exploration of the technical possibilities offered by the board but keeps the focus on what the children need to learn; • the need to maintain a balance between the whole-class part of the lesson and time for the children’s independent work; • the need to enable children to apply to their own work what they have learnt from working with an interactive whiteboard. The greatest potential for ICT, however, is in presenting ‘ICT texts’, which allow the reader to shape the text by making choices along the way. i-read offers one ICT text of this kind per CD-ROM.
