I am a middle school teacher with 8 years experience.
Incorporating literacy and numeracy skills over all curriculum areas is my passion. I hope that you find my resources helpful!
I am a middle school teacher with 8 years experience.
Incorporating literacy and numeracy skills over all curriculum areas is my passion. I hope that you find my resources helpful!
Use this set of graphic organisers to help build upon a student’s visual map! Help students make connection in learning - all topics areas.
This resource includes:
• Concept map, Practicums organisers (science specific)
• Word concept map (English/ LOTE specific)
• Fishbone diagram (including cause and effect), Venn diagram (2 and 3 circle compare and contrast), topic mind map and topic organiser, PMI, sequence chain, compare and contrast, compare and contrast essay organiser, event 5W and H mind map (all subjects)
Graphic organisers are fantastic for supporting students with their learning and understanding of a topic of work. This set of graphic organisers can be applied across the curriculum and will enhance the understanding of subject content with your students.
Use these graphic organisers:
• at the beginning of a unit of work (ascertain prior knowledge),
• when introducing a new topic in a unit,
• for group activities,
• as lesson starters/ plenary,
• set as homework or revision or
• as scaffolding for students starting their assessment piece.
Graphic organisers are all in black and white for ease of printing, nearly all have multiple versions and come with AU/NZ/UK spelling or US spelling.
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialised ability is needed and can easily be used in other lessons you may have already planned.
This lesson should be accessible to Years 4-12/ KS2 - KS3 students.
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Have students who struggle to start their research assignments? Need students to show evidence of their research? Don’t have the time to create your own scaffolding? This resource is for you!
A great resource (that will suite any length of time set) to get learners to demonstrate their ability to plan and prepare for a research assignment. Includes steps to encourage and support students to:
-Begin the inquiry and identify previous knowledge
-Develop a hypothesis (tentative, revised and final)
-Define relevant key words
-Devise sub-questions and then locate and record relevant information
-Synthase and plan through to reviewing and editing their draft
Accessible to middle school students, differentiated by the 3 levels of critical reflection and source evaluation questions. Simply edit these question, enabling it to be used by student in other year levels.
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Two ANZAC Day themed word-searches with 15 words each.
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A PowerPoint presentation designed to have students write an original piece for the topic 'What qualities do you think the ANZACs possessed that enabled them to endure the Gallipoli Campaign.'
The presentation provides images and information to help students understand what conditions were like at Gallipoli.
I would suggest that you also find some simple YouTube clips to show.
Once the information is presented to the students they are prompted to create a mind-map before staring on their writing.
Use my ANZAC themed writing paper for this task found here https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/anzac-day-writing-paper-11240912
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ANZAC Day themed quiz with 15 questions and answers at the end.
See how much your students know about ANZAC Day.
Can be used as a starter or in an assembly.
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Time poor but want to make sure you provide higher order comprehension question for texts studied in your lesson? This strategy is for you! I wish I’d come across this reading strategy earlier in my teaching career!
A series of posters to be used in conjunction with the study of any classroom texts using the QAR reading strategy.
The posters are designed to be general so that they can be used with any text studied in any subject. The idea is that you have a ‘go to’ set of engaging and differentiated questions and comprehension prompts, saving you valuable prep time and incorporating high quality learning activities every time!
The series includes:
- Poster 1 highlights the 4 levels of comprehension questions and where the student will find the answer.
- Poster 2 and 3 highlight and prompt student as to where to locate answers to comprehension questions and
develop these skills so they can apply them in other settings.
- Poster 4 highlights the types of questions for each level and how to answer the questions from each level.
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialised ability is needed! It can be used to form a standalone literacy lesson or can be left as a cover lesson activity. It can also be easily adapted to suit other lessons you may have already planned.
This lesson should be accessible to Year 4-10/ KS2 and KS3 students.
QAR allows you to create differentiated comprehension activities and provide a challenge for more able students.
*One file has UK/AU spelling and the other file has US spelling.
QAR introduction lesson for students can be found here https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/introduction-to-question-answer-relationship-for-students-reading-strategy-any-text-any-subject-11338638
QAR induction professional development for staff can be found here https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/introduction-to-question-answer-relationship-for-staff-whole-school-reading-strategy-11338684
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Time poor but want to make sure you provide higher order comprehension question for texts studied in your lesson? This reading strategy is for you! QAR can be used for any text type in any subject for all year levels.
The resource includes:
- 2 PowerPoint introduction lessons (one for upper primary -middle and the other for senior)
- Practice activity
- Poster 1 highlights the 4 levels of comprehension questions and where the student will find the answer.
- Poster 2 and 3 highlight and prompt student as to where to locate answers to comprehension questions and develop these skills so they can apply them in other settings.
- Poster 4 highlights the types of questions for each level and how to answer the questions from each level.
The PowerPoint is to introduce the concepts of QAR to students and the posters are designed to be general so that they can be used with any text studied in any subject. The idea is that you have a ‘go to’ set of engaging and differentiated questions and comprehension prompts, saving you valuable prep time and incorporating high quality learning activities every time!
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialised ability is needed! It can be used to incorporate literacy skills into your lesson or used in literacy intervention lessons.
This lesson should be accessible to Year 4-12/ KS2 and KS3 students.
QAR allows you to create differentiated comprehension activities and provide a challenge for more able students.
QAR induction professional development for staff can be found here https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/introduction-to-question-answer-relationship-for-staff-whole-school-reading-strategy-11338684
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A great resource to end your Aztec and Inca unit!
The resource includes:
-Task sheet (editable)
-Criteria sheet (editable)
-1 Classroom lesson
- 2 Computer lesson
- 2 research hint sheets
- Assignment scaffolding
- Modeled answers (differentiated)
-Suggested teaching strategies for each activity
This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep is needed! It can form a standalone end of term activity or be used at the end of a unit of study. Can be easily adapted to suit other assignment tasks you may have already planned.
This lesson should be accessible to KS2/ Year 7-9 students.
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Have students who struggle to start their research assignments? Need students to show evidence of their research? Don’t have the time to create your own scaffolding? This resource is for you!
A great resource (that will suite any length of time set) to get learners to demonstrate their ability to plan and prepare for a research assignment. Includes steps to encourage and support students to:
-Begin the inquiry and identify previous knowledge
-Develop a hypothesis (tentative, revised and final)
-Define relevant key words
-Devise sub-questions and then locate and record relevant information
-Synthase and plan through to reviewing and editing their draft
Accessible to KS3 students, differentiated by the 3 levels of critical reflection and source evaluation questions. Simply edit these question, enabling high achieving KS2 or KS4 students to use the booklet.
Would work well with my essay writing skill resource found here https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/assignment-writing-essay-and-report-11242476
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Two types of themed ANZAC Day writing paper for any activities you have planned for your class.
Goes well with my ANZAC Day writing activity found here https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/anzac-day-writing-activity-11240914
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