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Teaching Philosophy – Your Vision, Your Classroom
Defining Your Teacher Self
Purpose of Studying English
Improving Literacy at Home
What else can parents do at home?
GETTING TO KNOW YOUR STUDENTS
Student Accountability
Formative Assessment
How To Inspire a Love Of Reading
Goal-Setting
Reflection Page for Goal-setting
Reinforcing the Importance of Hardwork
Getting Organised – The Pomodoro Technique
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
Narrative Starters
Short Story Planning
Getting Inspiration – How To Start
Visual Writing Prompts
Picture This
Sensory Information
Show, Don’t Tell
Visualization and Creative Writing
Class Short Story Collection
The Box
Story Generators – How do they work?
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
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
COOPERATIVE LEARNING
Think, Pair, Share
Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up
Jot Thoughts
Numbered Heads Together
Talking Chips
Rally Robin
Corners
Reading Activities
Venn Diagrams
Ranking Ladders
Running Dictation
Retrieval Charts
RallyRead
Building Vocabulary
Reinforcing Vocabulary Through Word Walls
ANAGRAMS – JUMBLING LANGUAGE
Knowing Different Text Types – What is it not?
‘Changing Gears’: Understanding the Real World
Speaking and Listening Activities
Presenting Skills – Tone of Voice
Conversation Starters
Socratic Circle
Peer to Peer Teaching
Can you name the lyric?
Convince Your Partner – Persuasive Techniques Activity
Teaching…
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
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…Propaganda
Teaching Alice Walker’s The Flowers
Differentiation
Formulating Ideas: Sentence Starters
Choice Boards
Creating Learning Stations
Chunking
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
Contact
The English Classroom
A HELPFUL GUIDE FOR PRESERVICE AND GRADUATE TEACHERS
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