Looking for ways to include audio, video, digital images and online collaboration in your literacy lessons?
Radiowaves can provide you with the skills needed to become confident users of these technologies enabling you to creatively use these tools to deliver the Primary Literacy Framework.
With training available for podcasting, video, animation, live broadcasting, blogging and student voice the only limit will be your imagination.
Radiowaves is the perfect tool for planning and teaching the new Literacy Framework. Primary teachers are already making use of Radiowaves to deliver the framework in a way that makes the learning experience exciting, relevant and real for their classes.
Knowing that there will be an audience for the work that they produce, encourages children to plan and shape the content of their programmes with enthusiasm and purpose.
It encourages them to work cooperatively within teams, building on their skills, whilst using peer mediation to consider the clarity of both their content and delivery.
A body of evidence of each child’s work is created on their own web page, where all their podcasts, videos, blogs, profiles and reading journals are stored.
This grows with them as they proceed through their time at school, and is a celebration of their achievements during their primary years.
The Radiowaves audio, video and text feedback facilities allow teachers, parents and friends to communicate online with the children when their programmes are uploaded to the school’s Radiowaves station.
Literacy Framework and Radiowaves Case study
Ideas for Literacy lessons and planning
Autobiography podcast ideas New Online reading journal ideas
Coming soon Radio drama ideas
How Radiowaves can be used to deliver the framework
Using ICT enhances aspects of literacy learning and we have identified 8 strands where Radiowaves can help you to deliver the framework. ICT activities mentioned below from the framework could all be published on your school’s Radiowaves station.
You can use tools within Radiowaves to create podcasts, online reading journals, mp3 commentary and peer review, just to mention a few!
| Strand | Ideas |
|---|---|
| Speaking | Photo sequences, MP3 commentary, podcast, presentation |
| Listening and responding | Recorded audio, Broadcast features |
| Group discussion and interaction | Peer review |
| Drama | Role play, Radio drama |
| Engaging and responding to texts | Stop-frame animation, online reading journal, hot seating, online book reviews |
| Creating and shaping texts | Multimedia poems, TV advertisements |
| Text Structure and organisation | Audio comments, survey analysis |
| Presentation | Multimedia presentation |
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