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    • 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?
    • 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
    • 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
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    • Character Designer and Plot Diagram
    • Roll the Dice Story Generator
    • Annotating a Short Story
    • Language Analysis
    • Film Analysis
    • Check For Understanding – Brain Dump
    • CUPS and ARMS Editing Tools
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