Monday 18 March 2013

Update Operation Lucy...

I've finished the second chapter drawings for Operation Lucy. If you're reading the first book on www.roythezebra.com, then please use the What's happening sheets below, your students can guess what's happening in the pictures and then write a short sentence to describe... send me your sentences and I'll happily add to this blog.

Here you go...

What's happening with Little Mo...








What's happening now...








What's happening now...








Still inspired by drawing elephants, so here's another sketch for you... what do you think is happening here! Send me your drawings of Lucy and I'll add here too...

Have fun using Roy, ... mmm, now on to chapter 3 drawings... I'm aiming for 5 or 6 chapters.

Tim

Monday 11 March 2013

Jefferson Township School

Thank you Jefferson Township School for your excellent final chapters for rescuing Lucy the elephant. Some very clever ideas here... and really nice use of Story Jumper. Thank you for sending me the links and I look forward to meeting you on Skype.

Here are some of my favourite bits from your chapters. I have included all the links so that everyone can look at your work. Thank you also to Sherry for organising.
Brilliant disguises! Love the beards!

George looking good...

Nice giraffe and landscape

Everyone living together...

Yup, that's a longggggg wayyyyy. We have sea gulls like that where I live!


http://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/7498102/504a2f7e0d0fa 
http://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/7577092/504a2f7e11f10 
http://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/7577052/504a2f7e16d2b 
http://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/7577052/504a2f7e16d2b 
http://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/7482472/504a2f7e25768 
http://www.storyjumper.com/book/index/7482602/504a2f7e2a57b


Monday 4 March 2013

Find Content Quickly on Roy...

There are many free resources for you to use on my website and some 500 pages of content! So I thought it would be useful to give you some tips on how to find content quickly as I have designed the site so that you're never more than three clicks away from the content you need for teaching literacy...

1. Use the Quick Game Finder: this links direct to the games. You can find the quick game finder on the home page and in either the righthand of lefthand columns throughout the site







2. Use the Sitemap: the site map link can be found in the main navigation bar at the top of the page (apart from the homepage), this page contains a link to every single page in the website... handy...    : )








3. Use the main navigation to navigate to the overview pages, then scroll down and see all the content available…






4. Use Google: just put roythezebra.com + the keywords for the content you're looking for into Google and it bring up all the pages that contain the content you're looking for…










The majority of the content on the site is free, but I have woven some paid-for examples into the site so that you can preview it, e.g. Long Vowel Phonemesthe software is important as it is the main way the website makes any money which pays for my time to continue my work on both free and paid-for content…

Thanks for reading, send me feedback… always interested in hearing both good and bad…

Tim

P.S. just finished an email campaign so heading back to the activities of drawing and the new interactive book...