Writing 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 –...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleWriting 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,...
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