green fingers words

Green Fingers is a fun, interactive game designed to improve your word skills. Designed like a board game, you play against other computer players to top the leaderboard and win the game, improving your skills all the time. Like a garden, your reading and writing skills need to be looked after if they are to improve. This course will help you improve your reading and writing skills. So why not combine your love of gardening with improving your reading and writing. Let Pippa Greenwood and her team of gardeners be your guides and help you throughout the course. Travel around the world competing against fellow gardeners creating garden displays. Roll the dice to move across the board. At each stop take part in a challenge. Some challenges will be just for fun, while others will help you improve your reading and writing. Only the reading and writing questions will be scored, so think carefully before clicking the ‘Check answer' button! The higher your score, the further up the leaderboard you will go! Perhaps you just want to dip in and out of the course? No problem, you can move through the course from start to finish, dip in and out, or just study the reading and writing areas.

green fingers words- uk (England, Scotland, Wales)

Outline and learning objectives:

Reading:
Understand written words.
Use imagery to aid understanding.
Identify the purpose of some texts from their format.
Read and follow written instructions to complete an activity.
Read a piece of text and gain meaning from it.
Obtain information from written text

Speaking and Listening:
Communicate with others.
Present information to others effectively.
Obtain information from others.
Engage in discussion.

Spelling: Practical
Identify situations where accurate spelling is required.
Locate correct spellings.
Understand own spelling strengths and weaknesses.
Maintain a personal spelling programme over time-span.

Spelling: Rules and Strategies
Understand the language of spelling.
Match sounds to written symbols.
Know and use methods to learn how to spell words.

Writing: Meaning
Use writing to communicate clearly and effectively.
Show awareness of the need for appropriate presentation/format of writing.
Understand the need to plan and revise written work.
Present writing appropriately.

Writing, Punctuation and Grammar
Use punctuation to aid understanding.
Use grammar to aid understanding.

Previous experience required:
You don't need any previous knowledge to start this course. Why not have a go now?

Northern Ireland and Ireland green fingers words