Eclectic Technology

Studyladder is a fantastic on-line educational and interactive resource that offers a wide range of lesson plans, worksheets and kids’ activity games for ES1 to Stage 3. It covers all KLAs in the Australian curriculum and the resource can be used jointly by teachers, students and parents, plus can be accessed outside the school environment.

The resource is well designed and each KLA is easy to search; as grade levels are colour coded, and you can also search by type of resource (such as, topic, grade, material type, category etc.). The tasks available to teacher’s can be used as a template and adapted to their liking to fit personal pedagogy approach. Additionally, all the content on the site is teacher created, which makes this site credible.

This resource could be used in KLA English for Stage 2 learners to assist students with descriptive writing. They could view the video called ‘Description Writing Stimulus (Let's Write a Description)’, which outlines how to structure a description text. It continues to explain how to describe a character using adjectives to help the audience imagine the character being described. A great stimulus to use before having students compose their own text on character description.

Overall, as a free resource for teachers and their students that contains a depth and variety of activities which aligned to the Australian curriculum, Studyladder is by far an excellent ICT tool.