Hi I am Kev, my wife Belinda and I run Innovative Teaching Ideas. We love to learn, and now have three little learners to guide through life. Above all we would love to hear your feedback and thoughts around our products and can make resources to meet your needs.
Hi I am Kev, my wife Belinda and I run Innovative Teaching Ideas. We love to learn, and now have three little learners to guide through life. Above all we would love to hear your feedback and thoughts around our products and can make resources to meet your needs.
This activity will allow students to develop a better understanding of fact and opinion. When reading text, it is important to distinguish between facts and opinions. A reader must use critical thinking skills to evaluate statements in text to decide if the information or ideas are facts or opinions. Often the facts are included in what is known as details.
A friend of mine asked for some printable templates to help her grandchildren improve their handwriting skills.
As a result I have created these Victorian Modern Cursive Templates for you to download and print out.
They work most effectively when laminated so that they can be used over and over.
Please let me know if you would like these made up in any other specific font and I'll see what I can do.
This collection of posters gives students an excellent representation of the four seasons. It somes in 2 different graphical styles for the price of one.
Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring
This poster can also be downloaded as part of our literacy and numeracy poster bundles. Each Bundle contains hundreds of posters grouped around a common theme. They are a very cost effective way to buy multiple posters at once.
You can find our posters here
Innovative teaching poster collection
All our posters are professionally designed by graphic designers and are very high resolution of 600 dpi. They can be scaled to suit any paper size and will hold their clarity and sharpness right up to a full poster size.
Keywords: posters, displays, charts, printable, hi resolution, 600 dpi, English, Math,
Help your students to independently edit and proofread their own explanation writing pieces or explanatory essays with these engaging checklists and rubric.
There are three age variations in the bundle for Junior (Ages 5 - 7), Middle (7 - 11) and Senior (11 - 15). Each bundle contains both a student checklist for independent assessment and a student / teacher rubric for conferencing. Check the preview for a visual example.
The version you are looking at is the free PDF version. If you are looking for an editable version you can find it here
Editable Writing Checklists
These editable checklists are specifically for narratives and explanation writing at the moment. However we will are currently creating more for other writing genres in the coming weeks which will be added.
Each age group has been stylised and written to appeal to different age groups.
With six to a page you can easily print these out and distribute to students an re use them over and over.
Best of all they are completely editable if you wish to change any element of it.
Give your students the tools they need for great writing.
Every good story is written around what is called Story Elements. These elements are interlocked and guide the story from the beginning to the end. Students will identify the 5 story elements; character, setting, plot, conflict, and theme from the chapter book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Identifying story elements are useful in assisting readers in building an understanding of the text.
Responding to literature can be fun and creative. There are many methods for students to use when responding to a piece of literature. This activity will focus on thank you note writing. This will allow students to write from first person point of view. This shows educators what students understand about a text as students reveal their thinking, feelings, and reactions to the literature they have read.
Ease the writing process, turn your students into skilled self-editors, and give yourself a quick grading tool with our easy-to-use, fully-editable writing checklists.
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If you’re teaching narrative and story writing, these checklists and rubrics will give your students direction and clear goals to help them successfully express themselves. Each handout contains a student checklist for independent assessment and a student/teacher rubric for conferencing. With six checklists to a page, you can quickly print and distribute them as they are, or edit them to suit your specific needs.
We split this bundle into three age levels: Junior (ages 5-7), Middle (ages 7-11), and Senior (ages 11-15). Additionally, we stylized and worded each level to appeal to each age group. We are currently developing more checklists for other writing styles – if you buy this now, you can get those for free upon release by re-downloading this pack.
This is an effective yet simple tool to help your students develop into great writers with great habits, and will undoubtedly become a go-to reference throughout the year, as it has for the teachers who developed it.
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In my years of teaching, this fascinating project is consistently the most popular among my students. This dynamic PBL unit needs no prep from you and will actually make your kids excited about homework!
Why do students, parents, and teachers alike love this project so much? As an 8-12 week undertaking, kids get to explore in depth something they love, learn through both research and getting their hands dirty, and feel a sense of accomplishment through leading others. While it targets grades 4-9, it is editable and easily adaptable to any age group.
The process goes like this:
1.) Students select a new task or skill they want to learn about. Some examples of past choices include dressmaking, creating a video game, learning an instrument, cooking a 3-course meal for their family, and building a cubby house.
2.) Students research and complete the task within a specified time frame.
3.) As they progress, they keep an online diary of their learning journey outlining their successes and failures.
4.) When they have sufficiently learned their new skill, students then teach it family member or friend to show them what they have learned.
5.) At the conclusion of the project, students put together a presentation outlining their learning journey. This includes videos, photos, and feedback from family members and friends. They will also assess each other in accordance with a peer assessment rubric.
While this makes a great introduction to project management, time management, and presentation skills, students will come away from this with much more. This project also teaches grit, builds confidence, and encourages students to learn from and push through failure instead of fearing it. Indeed, success and failure are unimportant with this task. The true value lies in recording and learning from their successes and failures while sharing that knowledge with others.
Everything you need is included and completely editable. In this download, you will get:
Letters to Parents
Detailed descriptions for teachers, students, and parents
Summary Descriptions
Teaching Resources
Graphic Organizers
and much more
I guarantee this will be one of the most rewarding teaching and learning opportunities for both you and your students and one you can use for years to come and make your own.
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This versatile mock Facebook cube can be applied to any number of activites such as a character profile from books, films, games etc, quick biography task, all about me or plenty of other alternatives.
It contains the 6 elements of Facebook most relevant to students.
- Photo
- About
- Status Updates
- Friends
- Timeline
- Share a memory
It is completely editable and can be undertaken as a simple pen and paper task or an editable PowerPoint and Google Drive (Slides) task for students who have access to a technology.
Simply follow the instructions and away you go... NO PREP REQUIRED!!
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Capitalize on the Pokémon craze with this fun, engaging icebreaker! This is a no prep required activity - just print, hand it out, and give your kids a great back to school activity to kick off the year.
In this task, your students will create a custom Pokémon card that is all about THEM. This will give them the opportunity to tell you about their special talents, goals, and favourite things in life, all while developing their public speaking confidence and creative skills.
If you’re familiar with Pokémon, then you know what the cards look like. This activity gives you two options based on these cards: a back-to-back card, or a one page sheet with key details.
Full instructions come attached, including instructions on how to download the free 'Pokémon' font. This activity is also bundled as both a PDF and a completely editable version that you can modify to suit any group.
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Categorizing words doesn’t come naturally to kids, but this cute, high-resolution poster set will help them properly use and make sense of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech.
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If kids can make good grammar second nature, they will be well prepared for junior high writing. Help them get a head start by adding this useful, easy to comprehend poster set to your wall. The nine posters cover:
Nouns
Verbs
Pronouns
Adjectives
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Interjections
Adverbs
This set is our junior version and is designed for children under ten. If you’re working with kids ten and up, we also have a senior edition available in our store. We are giving you these PDF images in high-resolution so you can scale them to any size with no pixilation or quality loss.
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Parts of Speech Poster Set (Senior Version)
Categorizing words doesn’t come naturally to kids, but this cute, high-resolution poster set will help them properly use and make sense of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech.
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If kids can make good grammar second nature, they will be well prepared for junior high writing. Help them get a head start by adding this useful, easy to comprehend poster set to your wall. The nine posters cover:
Nouns
Verbs
Pronouns
Adjectives
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Interjections
Adverbs
This set works best with children ten and up. If you’re working with younger learners, we also have a junior edition available in our store. We are giving you these PDF images in high-resolution so you can scale them to any size with no pixilation or quality loss.
Like what you see? For more creative ideas and new product updates, be sure to sign up for our email newsletter, and visit us on Facebook to take part in our exclusive giveaways.
Other Popular Products From Innovative Teaching Ideas
Full Year Visual Writing Prompts Bundle
Poetry Power Pack
110 Reading Activities Bundle
Adjectives are words that describe nouns. Adverbs are words that describe verbs. This activity will practice identifying and locating adjectives and adverbs by describing parts of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Adjectives and adverbs can be part of word skills that incorporate vocabulary that is important in helping students form mental images about scenes and settings in a story. Forming these metal pictures assists students in understanding what they are reading.
A ten question quiz about 'Fake News' and the Post-Truth media cycle we live within.
Highly relevant and engaging to students.
This quiz also includes an answer sheet.
This activity will allow students to develop an understanding of dialogue. Dialogue is what is being spoken by characters in a text. Understanding who is speaking allows students to better understand the plot and/or events taking place in a story. A character’s dialogue is also important because it often sets or reflects the mood in the story. This activity will also strengthen background knowledge for word choice in identifying signals for dialogue. (said, shouted, yelled, spoke, etc.)
