Writing seeds
Ralph Fletcher, in his book “A WRITER’S NOTEBOOK” lists a number of ideas which can help you organise your writer’s notebook into a place “to live like a writer, not just in school during writing time,...
View ArticleTeaching inferential comprehension
I have not long finished writing half year reports for my students in English, in years 7, 8 and 9. As usual, the common thread in most of the reports, was a comment about their challenges with...
View ArticleHow to create an environmental disaster
This presentation has been created, inspired by the ideas of Corbett Harrison – Life is a Cook book. I asked the students to think of a current issue, then write it up as a recipe. The above youtube...
View ArticleTeaching Writing Right
Thanks to Jenny Gilbert whom I follow on Scoop.it, I have discovered this wonderful blog loaded with ideas for teaching writing – which of course, is my passion. One of the ideas which really took my...
View ArticleExit Slip
WHAT IS AN EXIT SLIP? An exit slip is a short, low stakes, written reflection by the students, of the current lesson or topic. Exit slips can be written in a book, but are most easily written on sticky...
View ArticleCornell notes / double entry journal
Any time you have ruled a line down the middle of a page and compared two things by listing pros and cons, you have used a double entry journal. A version of double entry journals, is CORNELL NOTES....
View ArticleWriting to Learn – what is it?
“To get true learning power, kids must put ideas into their own words.” p 26 Content Area Writing – Harvey Daniels, Steven Zemelman, Nancy Steineke Writing to learn is different to high stakes, public...
View ArticleLiteracy in the Potato Olympics – a maths project
This week I have been team teaching with Britt Gow in my role as literacy coach at Hawkesdale P12 College.. Britt is collaborating on a maths project called The Potato Olympics, with Deon Scanlon,...
View ArticleDear mum and dad…..(fast forward to 2018)
Our year 6 Graduation Dinner is booked for December 4th and we will start working on some fun things to do for the night. The first thing I am asking the students to do as individuals is to write a...
View ArticleWriting challenges for the holidays
I have set these simple writing challenges for my year 6 students for a bit of fun while they are on a 2 week term break. • Hug at least one person each day (yes you can hug your brother or sister –...
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