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Teaching Philosophy – Your Vision, Your Classroom
Defining Your Teacher Personality
Why Storytelling Matters
Purpose of Studying English
Improving Literacy at Home
What else can parents do at home?
GETTING TO KNOW YOUR STUDENTS – Who are you?
Cooperative Learning Jar: Challenging Your Everyday Practice
Getting to Know Your Students – What are you?
Student Accountability
Formative Assessment
Subverting the Stock Standard Assessment: Encouraging Students to Design Their Own Assessments
How To Inspire a Love Of Reading
Goal-Setting
Reflection Page for Goal-setting
Reinforcing the Importance of Hardwork
Getting Organised – The Pomodoro Technique
Five Quick Literacy Games to Energise Your Classroom!
Classroom Awards
Expectations in the Classroom
CREATING ROUTINES IN THE CLASSROOM
Behaviour Management – Harry Potter House Points
Behaviour Management – Low Key Responses
Encouraging Students – The Literacy Box
How to Organise an Assessment Moderation
Designing Learning Programs
Lesson Design
Do Now Activity!
The Hook!
Characterisation – Whose boots are those?
Learning Intentions
Success Criteria
Brain Dump
Concept Attainment
Check For Understanding
Tally – Check for Understanding
Pop Quiz! – Checking for Understanding
Exit Ticket
3-Way Summaries
One Minute Papers
Brain Break
Writing Activities
How To Write A Short Story
Change the Ending – Challenging your students to think outside the box
Narrative Starters
Short Story Planning
Getting Inspiration – How To Start
Visual Writing Prompts
Picture This! – Encouraging students to visualise to create dynamic characters
Sensory Information
Show, Don’t Tell
Visualization and Creative Writing
How to Write a Short Story When You Have No Ideas
Imagining the Unimaginable: Pushing the boundaries of the narrator
Class Short Story Collection
The Box
Story Generators – How do they work?
Creative Writing Ideas: Discovering conflict by challenging point of view
Choose Your Own Adventure!
Roll-The-Dice… Story Generator
INTERACTIVE WRITING: List Stories
WRITING PROMPT OF THE WEEK
GETTING CREATIVE: Four Outside the Box Activities
QUICK WRITING: Fun Writing Activities
Imagine Your Life as a Movie
Formative Assessment: Create a Conversation
Predestination Paradox – Narrative Devices
Bored With the Classroom? Writing Outside with Structure and Purpose
Reading Activities
Venn Diagrams
Ranking Ladders
Running Dictation
Retrieval Charts
RallyRead
Building Vocabulary
Which is it? – encouraging students to engage with vocabulary and justify their answers
Vocabulary Building Quiz: Challenging our students to think outside the box
Reinforcing Vocabulary Through Word Walls
ANAGRAMS – JUMBLING LANGUAGE
Knowing Different Text Types – What is it not?
How to scaffold and encourage students to justify their ideas using Bloom’s Taxonomy
Creating Stories using Emojis: A fun and easy way to enjoy storytelling
‘Changing Gears’: Understanding the Real World
Speaking and Listening Activities
Presentation Skills – Building Confidence
Presenting Skills – Tone of Voice
Conversation Starters
Socratic Circle
Peer to Peer Teaching
Can you name the lyric?
Convince Your Partner – Persuasive Techniques Activity
READING STRATEGIES – WHERE TO BEGIN?
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Visualising
Making Connections
Inferring
Questioning
Determining Importance
See, Think, Wonder
Before, During And After Reading
Preview, Summarise, Predict, Identify Stations
Types of Feedback
Student CONFERENCING
PROVIDING CLASS FEEDBACK
WRITTEN FEEDBACK
PEER TO PEER FEEDBACK
Year 12 ATAR Syllabus Checklist
COOPERATIVE LEARNING
Think, Pair, Share
Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up
Jot Thoughts
Numbered Heads Together
Talking Chips
Rally Robin
Corners: Getting Students out of Their Chairs
Teaching…
Fear in The Tell Tale Heart
Teaching Characterisation
Teaching The Raven
Teaching Sentence Structure
Teaching.. How to Annotate a Short Story
Teaching…Beliefs, Values, Attitudes, Behaviour
Teaching…Theme
Teaching…Essay Structure
Your Simple Guide To Essay Writing – Skyfall Film Study
Teaching…Persuasive Essay Writing
Teaching…Types of Paragraph Structures
Teaching…Editing – ‘ARMS’
Teaching…Editing – ‘CUPS’
Teaching…Metaphors and Similes
Teaching…Denotations and Connotations
Teaching…Verbs and Adverbs
Teaching…Symbolism in Visual Images
Teaching…Genre
Teaching…Propaganda
Teaching Alice Walker’s The Flowers
Teaching…Science Fiction and Issac Asimov
Evaluating Short Films – Introducing Cinema to the Classroom
Values and Attitudes in The Fault in Our Stars
Teaching…Mood and Tone
Teaching…different types of setting
Differentiation
Formulating Ideas: Sentence Starters
Choice Boards
How to create your own choice board (And make life easier for yourself)
Creating Learning Stations
Chunking: How to make encourage student engagement
Checklists
Creative Writing Journal – Fostering the Creative Mind
Short Stories for The Classroom
The Perfect Crime?
All Hail The King
The History of the Snicker’s Bar
Free Downloads
Essay Planner
Creative Writing Prompts
Developing a Narrative through Character, Setting and Conflict
Short Story and Character Generator
Character Designer and Plot Diagram
Roll the Dice Story Generator
Talking Chips: Encouraging Equal Participation and Healthy Discussion
Rainbow Groups: Encouraging Cooperation in Mixed Groups
How To Make Your Own Choice Boards
Annotating a Short Story
Language Analysis
Film Analysis
Beliefs, Values, Attitudes and Behaviours Worksheet
Bloom’s Taxonomy for Narrative Analysis
Check For Understanding – Brain Dump
CUPS and ARMS Editing Tools
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