Rivers Environments
Activities, supported information and activities about rivers
Two levels of supported information about rivers, followed by three activities. In addition, information, questions and structured writing grids on erosion and further information on transportation and deposition. The set is complemented by a topic word bank and an on-screen dictionary.
Available in a symbolised format or text only format.
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12 environments designed to give information about rivers, allow the user to create their own sentences, and question what they have learned.
Rivers-Listen and Read
Each page of text has 4 sentences. As the student clicks on each sentence in turn it is spoken and then added to the document. There is a Repeat Speech button to hear it again and a delete button to remove an entire line in case something was selected in error.
The final text can be printed (and it works well in black and white as well as colour). Another option is to use this as an information source as one might use a web page. In this case the users can browse through the pages and copy just the sentences they need.
Rivers-Questions
Click on the blue question to hear it and place it in the document, then choose the correct statement answer from the 3 options. The text is highlighted as it is spoken
Rivers-Facts
A short sequence of important facts to remember, presented one line at a time. A useful revision activity, or first introduction to the topic for a reader who needs a shorter text.
River-Quiz
An alternative to the True or False activity with 5 questions each with two options on the screen, one of which is false, rather than not relevant.
Rivers-True or false
Test the comprehension of the information and check reading ability in deciding whether each sentence is true or false.
Erosion-Listen and Read
Another listen and read activity on a different aspect of the rivers topic. See 'Rivers-Listen and Read' for ideas on how to use it.
Erosion-Questions
Similar to 'Rivers Questions', click on the blue question to hear it and place it in the document, then choose the correct statement answer from the 3 options. The text is highlighted as it is spoken.
Erosion - Write Sentences
Write simple sentences about Erosion. Each of the 4 grids has vocabulary for two sentences.
Deposition-Listen and Read
Listen and read information activities on more detailed aspects of the rivers topic. See 'Rivers-Listen and Read' for ideas on how to use it.
Transportation-Listen and Read
Listen and read information activities on more detailed aspects of the rivers topic. See 'Rivers-Listen and Read' for ideas on how to use it.
Rivers-Wordbank
An alphabetic set of grids with topic vocabulary used in the texts. There are spaces for adding additional words.
Rivers-Dictionary
A dictionary for 36 key words in the rivers topic. Click on a word in the grid and it will open a page with a symbol supported definition. If you want to add the word to the document, click on the word on the definition page, or copy type the word from the main grid cell. Click on the definition to send this to the document.