Read & Respond Interactive: Farmer Duck

by Elaine Hampton (author) and Karen Leigh (author)

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Additional Information

  • Item format

    • CD-ROM

  • ISBN

    • 9780439945790

  • Catalogue numbers

    • SK5452, ST5176, PK3032

  • Other details

A wealth of digital resources to enhance and extend your work on Farmer Duck.

  • Comprehensive teachers’ notes pull together the digital texts into coherent lesson plans.
  • Interactive writing frames included to structure writing tasks.
  • Interactive text extracts on CD-ROM to annotate with your class.
  • Cross-curricular photos and videos to put the story in context.
  • Author interviews and biography.
  • Interactive whiteboard activities.
  • Our price £32.00 (€35.20)

Reviews

  1. Eifron Watkinson on 8 February 2008

    FARMER DUCK

    • Children were engaged with the animated film clips. They wanted to play them over several times. They were able to link them to the pictures in the book. • Text annotations were too difficult for the younger children but the KS2 co-ordinator agreed they would be good for her children, ( we are a special needs school) • Work led onto performing a drama for other classes to watch that the children had written for themselves. • All the KS1 and Foundation Stage teachers were impressed by the resource which gave them new ideas based on a familiar book. • As co-ordinator I would buy this DVD for school as it was easy to use, provided motivating activities for staff and pupils and saved a lot of planning time. • I was able to use this supplemented by symbols from Widget programme. • Great fun to use. Eifron Watkinson, Addington School, Reading

    5 out of 5

  2. Rachael Hill on 30 January 2008

    RRI Farmer Duck

    This interactive read & respond CD-ROM is an excellent resource that helps children (and adults) to take a fresh look at this well loved tale. The children really enjoyed the animated film clips- laughing as the animals wiggled under the Farmer’s bed. They particularly liked the different cross-curriculum video clips (of the ducks and tractor) and photographs. These were beneficial to children at different development levels allowing the children to work together (PSED) and expanding their knowledge and understanding of the world. The children quickly found their way around the CD-ROM, accessing the different features including the on-screen activities. The photocopiable pages are an added bonus, along with the teachers’ notes, allowing for further activities that could be incorporated into displays or work to take home.

    Rachel Hill, West End Tiny Tots Group, Lancashire

    5 out of 5

Case study

Eifron Watkinson, Addington School, Reading takes a look at Read & Respond Interactive: Farmer Duck for us.

Children were engaged with the animated film clips. They wanted to play them over several times. They were able to link them to the pictures in the book.

Text annotations were too difficult for the younger children but the KS2 co-ordinator agreed they would be good for her children, (we are a special needs school)

Work led onto performing a drama for other classes to watch that the children had written for themselves.

All the KS1 and Foundation Stage teachers were impressed by the resource which gave them new ideas based on a familiar book.

As co-ordinator I would buy this DVD for school as it was easy to use, provided motivating activities for staff and pupils and saved a lot of planning time.

I was able to use this supplemented by symbols from Widget programme. Great fun to use.

Structure

Read & Respond

To get started with Read & Respond all you need to do is:

  1. Choose a children’s book, from Owl Babies to Kensuke’s Kingdom, to study with your class
  2. Order the corresponding Read & Respond Teacher Resource Book
  3. Add a Read & Respond Interactive CD-ROM to really get your lessons buzzing!

Read & Respond Teacher Resource Titles

In-depth analysis of each book to get the whole class thinking about the story—and expressing their thoughts aloud and in writing. Within each Teacher Resource Book you’ll find:

  • Background information
  • Detailed chapter notes
  • Plot, character and setting activities
  • Shared reading section, with three extracts to read as a class
  • ‘Talk about it’ section to get the children discussing feelings and ideas around the book
  • ‘Get writing’ activities to help children structure and express their views about the book
  • Assessment activities*

Read & Respond Interactive

These multimedia CD-ROMs can be used as standalone products, or to expand upon the corresponding Read & Respond teacher’s book. Read & Respond Interactive is ideal for exploring cross-curricular themes and for inspiring reluctant readers.

Each CD-ROM contains:

  • Teaching notes, including lesson plans, differentiation, cross-curricular links and editable notes
  • An author interview or biography
  • Audio clips
  • Text extracts
  • Cross-curricular photos and video clips to help put the story into context
  • A word bank – linked to the text extracts – containing audio and text definitions
  • A selection of interactive whiteboard activities.

Children’s Books

We can supply each children’s title covered by the Read & Respond series as a pack of 6 or 30 books, or as a single purchase.

Read & Respond structure

Read & Respond structure

Your questions answered

Read & Respond Interactive

What are the minimum system requirements for the Read & Respond Interactive CDs?

You will need a PC or Mac with a 4x speed CD-ROM drive and 128MB RAM; Recommended minimum processor speed 450Mhz.; Windows 98/2000/XP or Mac OSX 10.2 or later; 16bit sound card and graphics card.

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