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 HUGE collection of READING ACTIVITIES for ANY BOOK or TEXT TYPE is packed with DIFFERENTIATED TASKS for FICTION and NONFICTION TEXT GENRES. Your students can work INDEPENDENTLY or in GROUPS through these FUN and ENGAGING activities that will make reading in 2023 a blast!
WHAT'S INCLUDED
60+ activities require students to RESPOND in various genres and styles.
40+ activities incorporating ARTISTIC and CREATIVE skills about their book
30+ TECHNOLOGY activities, including open-ended iPad and web-based tasks
25+ GROUP-based tasks
20+ tasks requiring RESEARCH and ENQUIRY of concepts within a text.
50+ tasks to use with FILMS, GRAPHIC NOVELS and DIGITAL LITERACIES.
15+ activities involving DRAMA, MUSIC and ROLE PLAYING
88 PRINTABLE Task Cards
25+ GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS that can be applied to any text
Reading WORKSHEETS
These evergreen 125 activities are available in DIGITAL and PRINT formats for you to use in READING CENTER ROTATIONS or online INSTRUCTIONAL TASKS your students can efficiently complete.
This top seller will not disappoint when providing a nice balance of direct instruction and freedom to let students personalize their learning due to the range and diversity of resources and lesson content.
This set of beautifully presented reading activities ensures students are engaged and on task during literacy rotations and can be used for both groups and independent study.
Each 40-60 minute lesson contains multiple "evergreen" activities so that they can be applied to any student or text.
Every activity has clear instructions and open-ended outcomes to meet the needs of all ability ranges. We know this through experience: an exemplary teacher designed each one, and they have all been used in our classrooms for over two decades.
Great looking writing pack for younger writers themed around dinosaurs. Includes the following
Narrative planning graphic organizer
Story Structure tool
Essay planner and a variety of themed writing paper
What engages kids even more than listening to a good story? ☀️PARTICIPATING IN IT!☀️ That’s what they’ll be doing with AESOP'S FABLE POWER PACK, which offers a COMPLETE, NO-PREP UNIT.
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This HUGE BUNDLE offers a mix of hands-on, printable, and digital media resources. By the time you have finished this pack, your students won’t just be able to READ and COMPREHEND fables, but will also be WRITING their own unique fables with structure and purpose. That’s why this is one of the best reviewed products we have to offer – it keeps kids excited and engaged for over a week as you work through the following areas:
✔ What Is a Fable and Its Purpose?
✔ Who Is Aesop, The Father of Fables?
✔ 12 Famous Interactive Fables by Aesop (Professionally Narrated)
✔ Scripted Fable Theater - Turn These Fables into a Drama Class
✔ Deconstructing Fables for Meaning
✔ Planning and Assessment Rubrics for Writing Fables
✔ Fable Writing Workshop
✔ Character Traits Worksheets and Activities for All of Aesop's Creatures
✔ Digital and Paper Based Resources for Publishing Fables
✔ Fable Glossary and Curriculum Links.
The entire collection is provided to you in EDITABLE PowerPoint and Word formats and also available as a printable PDF eBook. Each lesson is a complete plan that eliminates your preparation time, but if you need to modify the content to suit a particular class, you can easily do so. We even hired a professional voice actor so that you can listen to these fables with your class in style!
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Get your English students fascinated with writing through this engaging pack of visual writing prompts! ABSOLUTELY NO PREP REQUIRED, just download and start teaching in minutes.
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2019 UPDATE: Just added over 200 DIGITAL Visual Prompt graphic organizers for 1:1 / BYOD / Google Classroom Users. *PLUS* 120 printable visual writing tasks for the classroom or homework. We have upgraded both the digital and paper based content.
This versatile bundle of resources will open up your students’ imaginations as they learn about observing details, writing with precision, and using figurative language. Best of all, this pack contains one photo for every day of the school year. Instead of scouring the Internet for appropriate photos and spending hours every week building your own activities, you can finish your entire year’s writing preparation with a single click.
Here’s what you get:
Over 370 breathtaking, high-resolution photos selected to inspire thought and creativity for a variety of writing tasks.
40 weekly Snapshot writing activities to ensure that students of any age and ability can respond to the images with direction and purpose.
200+ Digital Graphic Organizers with awesome visual writing prompts that can be used in Google Classroom, One Note or any digital student/teacher device.
Free download of our Snapshot Writing Tool
40 Weekly Newspaper report writing prompts and activities using photos and graphic organizers.
Instructions and techniques for pairing the visuals with Snapshot Writing Tool to get the most out of your students.
Two formats: a PowerPoint presentation for large classes and a 416-page eBook for personal or small group use.
This download contains the following sections:
Weird and Wonderful
Moments of Terror
Bad 'Engrish'
Oddball
Epic Fails
Into the Wilderness
You Gotta See This
Animal Antics
What a Wonderful World
I See It But I Don't Believe It (Digitally-altered images)
Warm and Fuzzy
A Different Time
This bundle has been used by hundreds of teachers and thousands of students around the world and continues to engage students of any age and ability in writing. Check out the great reviews below!
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This evergreen resource will come in handy for fresh ideas for students to use their spelling words more effectively and creatively.
The matrix is built on Blooms Taxonomy and addresses all areas in simple to understand language for students of all ages.
Best of all it's completely Free!!! A review and Follow would be greatly appreciated
With the festive season almost upon us you might be considering doing some letters to Santa as part of your Christmas writing sessions.
This easy to use template is completely free to download looks great and will definitely inspire young writers to put in plenty of great ideas and effort.
Following the wild popularity of the Visual Writing Prompts Bundle comes **HYPOTHETICAL VISUAL ICE BREAKERS AND OPINION PROMPTS.**
Another evergreen and versatile resource with proven success with struggling or reluctant writers as well as being an excellent icebreaker for students and staff.
Everything is completely editable and absolutely ""NO PREP REQUIRED""
What you get
- Over 101 amazing photos each accompanied by a highly engaging hypothetical question for you to ponder.
- Advice and resources for students and teachers about maximising the bundles use in literacy other areas fo the curriculum.
- Teaching and assessment resources tailored to hypothetical questions.
The resource is broken into 5 unique areas
- What If?
- Icebreakers
- Would you rather?
- Hmmm??? That's a tough one
- Tough questions for young adults.
This resource is ever expanding, and as such you will receive all future upgrade for free.
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POPULAR PRODUCTS FROM INNOVATIVE TEACHING IDEAS
FULL YEAR VISUAL WRITING PROMPTS BUNDLE
110 Reading Activities Bundle
TEACHING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES & STEM
POETRY POWER PACK
GOOGLE SEARCH LIKE A BOSS
☀️⭐Huge update for 2018 - Now with ⚡101 Digital Graphic Organizers⚡ making this the largest product of it's kind on TES☀️⭐ now also includes a printable PDF version of every tool.
Introduce your students to 21st century learning with this GROWING BUNDLE OF 101 EDITABLE & PRINTABLE (if you must) GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS. ✌NO PREP REQUIRED!!!✌ Go paperless, and let your students express their knowledge and creativity through the power of technology and collaboration inside and outside the classroom with ease.
Whilst you don't have to have a 1:1 or BYOD classroom to benefit from this bundle, it has been purpose built to deliver through platforms such as ✔ GOOGLE CLASSROOM, ✔ OFFICE 365, ✔ G-SUITE ✔ DROPBOX or any CLOUD BASED LEARNING PLATFORM.
These beautiful digital templates will remove the paper trail whilst providing the opportunity to access these templates without assistance (All instructions are included on each graphic organizer.) leaving you to focus on doing what you do best... Teaching.
This is an ever growing bundle of Graphic Organizers with around 5 added each month. Buy now whilst it's cheap to receive all future additions for free.
⭐ TEMPLATES INCLUDED ⭐
Organizing the facts (Reading and Writing)
Story Sequencing Graphic Organizer
Timelines
Event Map Graphic Organizer
Story Map Graphic Organizer A
Story Map Graphic Organizer B
Journalistic Report Graphic Organizer
Plot Elements Graphic Organizer
Story Sequencing Graphic Organizer
Conflict / Resolution Graphic Organizer
Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer
Double Venn Diagram
Single Concept Map
Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer
Problem and Solution Graphic Organizer
Text Comparison Tool
Alphabet Knowledge Organizer
Facts Vs Opinion Graphic Organizer
Observation Response Graphic Organizer
U Plan Narrative Organizer
Vocabulary Dissection Tool
Character Traits Graphic Organizer
Character Analysis Tool
Animal Research Graphic Organizer
Biography Research Graphic Organizer
My Opinion Graphic Organizer
Biography Research Tool
Book Vs Film graphic Organizer
Cause and Effect Wheel
Problem and Solution Chart
Flow Diagram
Cycle Diagram
Y Chart
Spider Diagram
Writing Stimulus Tool
Newspaper Report Planner
Writing Stimulus Tool B
3-2-1 Fiction Follow Up
Vocabulary Concept Map
Animal ? Creature Graphic Organizer
DeBono's Thinking Hats
Family Tree Graphic Organizer
Computational Thinking Graphic Organizer
Pictograph Generator
Blank Bar Graph
Horizontal Bar Graph
Design Thinking Graphic Organizer
Question Tower
Key Facts Graphic Organizer
Fish Bone Graphic Organizer
Learning Triangle
Plus Too many others to list here...
You have found THE TITANIC resource you have been searching for!! 105 years in the making...
If your have a one to one or BYOD program this independent unit on Titanic is unlike any other. Offering deep, personalized learning experiences incorporating proven learning technologies and quality teaching and learning. A meaningful use of technology within the classroom.
Whether you use Google Classroom, Drive, Office or even an iPad you are good to go. No Prep required and it is all Completely Editable.
This 40 slide digital interactive notebook is an unit of work on the world's most famous ship. The people, events, ingenuity and oversights which captured the worlds' imagination and and then changed history forever.
It will engage your students through a huge collection of Editable Digital Graphic and Text Organizers, multimedia, resources and interactive tasks all themed around Titanic.
Perfect as an English, literacy or history project.
Activities Include
- Digital Text Response Tasks
- Digital Titanic Timelines
- Digital Fact Vs. Opinion
- Digital Newspaper text / graphic organizers and templates
- Interactive Titanic video response task
- Create your own Titanic Google Map task
- Podcast audio response tasks
- A variety of interactive Titanic Writing planners and templates
- Digital Titanic Biography Response Tasks
- Digital Data representation and graphing based upon Titanic
- A range of open ended Titanic assessment tasks
- Digital Self assessment tools
** Plus much more
This is a deep unit of work guaranteed to both inform and showcase your students understanding of one the greatest achievements and disasters.
This is the type of resource which validates and proves the worth of all that technology in your classrooms.
Teach your students the MOST ESSENTIAL SKILLS OF THE INFORMATION ERA to become expert DIGITAL RESEARCHERS.
How to correctly ask questions to search engines on various devices and platforms
How to filter and refine your results to find exactly what you want every time.
Essential Research and critical thinking skills for students
Plagiarism, Citing and acknowledging other people’s work.
How to query, synthesize and record your findings in a logical manner.
Completely updated for 2019 with another 20 pages of content and and new follow up tasks.
This GAMIFIED resource provides teachers and students with the SECRET HANDBOOK of operators, tips and tricks to the worlds most popular website… YOU WILL NEVER USE GOOGLE THE SAME AGAIN.
After presenting this session to thousands of teachers and students, I know most people completely waste their time searching Google, settling for the first thing that pops up instead of what they really need.
This doesn’t have to be the case. In just one lesson, you can turn anyone (teacher, student, even a hardcore web addict) into a GOOGLE SEARCH NINJA who can find exactly what they want the first time, every time. These are the secret tips and tricks nobody has ever told you about, all presented in a fun, engaging, completely editable PowerPoint game.
You owe this to your students if you ask them to use the internet for research. IT IS A LIFE SKILL FOR THE 21st CENTURY.
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15 innovative MAY themed writing activities hyperlinked to guides for students so they can work independently with a clear understanding of the genre and task at hand.
Including
Narratives
Explanation Texts
Information Reports
Recounts
Expository Essays
Persuasive Texts
Opinion Essays
Arguments and Discussions
Letter Writing
AND MORE
Use these templates to teach young writers how to write a basic letter or recount. Your students will learn about addresses and can get creative in decorating the front picture and creating a stamp of their own in the process
⚡ THE POETRY POWER PACK IS HERE ⚡
Want to make poetry FUN, ENGAGING AND RELEVANT? This poetry unit is a complete solution for teaching and learning poetry to students. ❤️ ABSOLUTELY NO PREP REQUIRED ❤️, just download and start teaching in minutes.
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With four full weeks worth of work, you can either go all in or return as required throughout the school year. These aren’t just NO PREP, either – our teacher feedback has repeatedly told us these poetry activities are so clear that their students can self-study at their own pace.
We have spent over ten years compiling, refining, and classroom-testing this Poetry unit to get it to the quality that it’s at now. It has been used by teachers around the world in various formats and is now available for the first time as a complete solution to teaching poetry in your classroom in an engaging and professional manner.
Whatever you need to teach we have you covered. We’ve designed activities and lessons for 19 styles of poetry, including:
✍ Acrostic Poems
✍ Ballads
✍ Clerihew Poetry
✍ Diamante poems
✍ Epitaph
✍ Free Verse
✍ Haiku
✍ Irish Limericks
✍ Monody
✍ Monorhyme
✍ The Ode
✍ Palindromes
✍ Pantoum
✍ Quatrains
✍ Shape Poetry
✍ Concrete Poetry
✍ Sonnets and Villanelle.
For each style of poetry you will find:
✏ Visually bright, informative teaching guides designed to appeal to kids
✏ Annotated poetry samples narrated by a professional voice actor
✏ Quality external learning links and resources
✏ Individual templates to download and print in both grayscale and color
✏ Poetry Assessment Rubric to help students produce their own high quality poetry
✏ Curriculum links, including Common Core
This unique bundle of resources, activities, and media comes in a single PowerPoint with dozens of templates and documents for you and your students. You will also gain access to a PDF version with this purchase. However you use it, this packet will ensure that you easily meet Common Core Standard 10 for grades one through five.
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Other Popular Products From Innovative Teaching Ideas - Search for these items on TES
Year Long Visual Writing Prompts
Fable Power Pack
Teaching Digital Technologies and STEM
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Take care of your most essential wall item for under a buck with our fully editable, high-resolution alphabet poster set. This is a no prep set for you, just print and go!
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Every K-2 classroom needs an alphabet on display, and this flexible set will meet those needs, and more. As a PDF document, you just need to print and post to have your wall alphabet taken care of. These high-resolution images can be scaled to poster size with no pixilation or quality loss, and you can just as easily scale them down to card size for fun and easy games. You’ll immediately see how having your own scalable and printable set offers benefits that the traditional pre-printed packs can’t match.
Want to customize these? You can also download this pack as an editable Word file for just a few dollars more!
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Use this editable tool with a text such as a newspaper article or to research something. Simply read your selected text and record the keywords or phrases that answer the questions below. The final step is to summarise the article in 25 words of your own in the table below.
Can you make the ultimate paper helicopter? Do you understand the principles of flight and gravity? How will you design, enhance, “tinker” and most importantly record your data and evidence of your findings?
All these essential questions will be answered through these excellent HANDS ON STEM activities. Everything is here for you NO PREP REQUIRED
The only materials required are paper, paper clips and scissors.
This project can be distributed individually via Google Classroom, OneNote or a similar platform or you can teach it to the entire class. All content and materials are easy to follow and fully prepared.
Become an engineer today and have some great fun learning about the basic principles of flight and gravity.