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Teaching Philosophy – Your Vision, Your Classroom
Defining Your Teacher Self
Why Storytelling is Important
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
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 When You Have No Ideas
How To Write A Short Story
Change the Ending
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
Formative Assessment: Create a Conversation
Reading Activities
Venn Diagrams
Ranking Ladders
Running Dictation
Retrieval Charts
RallyRead
Building Vocabulary
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?
Evaluating a Text
Emoji Stories
‘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
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
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
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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