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.
Bring the magic of Roald Dahl's classic story to life with this must-have resource pack. This download contains over 50 pages of fully-prepped, exhilarating activities to get you started in minutes.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one of the richest sources for imaginative activities in all of children's literature. But as you know, designing these activities takes a long time. That's why we've done the hard work for you. These lessons were created by real teachers, tested in real classrooms, and organised for maximum effectiveness. All you need to do is open, print, and go.
When you purchase this pack, you will receive:
Lessons and worksheets with assessable outcomes
A multiple intelligences activity grid with 42 self-directed activities
Answer keys
A printable PDF file
You will also get this HUGE set of fully planned lessons:
Lesson 1: Adjectives and Adverbs
Lesson 2: Book Report Tasks
Lesson 3: Cause & Effect in Charlie
Lesson 4: Essay Topics and Tasks
Lesson 5: Fact & Opinion in Charlie
Lesson 6: Haiku Poetry from Charlie
Lesson 7: The Ultimate Charlie Quiz
Lesson 8: Smartie Pants - Getting Hands-on with Charlie and Chocolate
Lesson 9: Story Elements and Concept Maps from Charlie
Lesson 10 Thank You Notes from Charlie
Lesson 11: Compare and Contrast the different “Charlies”
Lesson 12: Vivacious Vocabulary Task
Lesson 13: Who Said That?
Multiple Intelligences Activity Grid with over 42 self-directed tasks
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Massive Update for 2019 - Another 40 pages of content added
An entire unit of INFORMATION REPORT WRITING awaits you. Absolutely no prep required.
This editable PowerPoint bundle will allow you to teach your students how to write excellent Information reports using a proven model based on research skills, writing strategies and engaging content.
The bundle includes 96 PAGES of:
Lesson plans,
Teaching materials
Visual writing prompts
Assessment rubrics
Writing Checklists
Graphic Organizers
Research Tools
Plus much more
All presented in a great looking presentation targeted at students in years 3 - 6.that you can either DISPLAY ON SCREEN, PRINT or use via GOOGLE CLASSROOM
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
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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Teaching students to write instructions manuals, recipes and science experiments can be a tough ask for the creative writer and teacher… ⭐UNTIL NOW⭐ Because the PERFECT PROCEDURAL WRITING UNIT offers a complete solution to teaching all styles of procedural writing including,
✅ Recipes
✅ Instructions for games
✅ Directions
✅ Science Experiments
✅ Walk Throughs
✅ Tutorials - Including videos
✅ Life Hack’s
✅ Self Help Guides
⭐ And much more NO PREP REQUIRED
Perfect for Google Classroom, Office 365, SeeSaw or other digital platfoms. Also includes a Print version.
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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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.
Inspire your students and spark conversations with our bundle of 14 quote posters. No clipart here – these high-res, professionally designed pieces will enhance your classroom with no prep required from you.
Your classroom and staff room will both look amazing with these on the wall – check the preview to see what they look like. We designed these with stunning images and famous quotes about education that will lift your spirits and motivate your kids. Here are the fourteen quotes you will get:
Dalai Lama
When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
John Locke
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
Robert Frost
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
John Adams
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Theodore Roosevelt
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
This bundle also comes with a PowerPoint slideshow with alternate images, so you can just as easily run it on our digital whiteboard as your wall.
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Teach your students to independently check their own narrative / story writing with these beautiful checklists and rubric.
These editable checklists are specifically for narratives or story writing. We will be creating more for other writing genres in the near future.
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.
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 writing great stories.
Have you ever seen kids actually beg for more writing? It’s really possible, and you can make it happen with this bundle, the best no-prep narrative planning tool you can get online!
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This bundle contains our Emoji Writing Pack and Emoji Writing Generator.
The Writing Pack will quickly become one of your easiest quick writing drill tools. With 150 fully prepared writing prompts and over 600 emoji, all you have to do is print, cut, and hand out. Your students will have a blast coming up with creative ways to integrate the emoji into the fundamental story elements of character, setting, and plot.
With over 200 real Emoji, the Writing Generator provides more detailed activities and works with students of all ages and abilities – as long as they’ve used phones or Facebook, they’ll know what to do. As a set of narrative planning tools, you can use this pack for a range of writing activities, from sharp warm-up writing practice to immersive narratives covering multiple class sessions. Many teachers have run this on their classroom’s interactive whiteboards or edited the handouts to create a multitude of open-ended literacy tasks. We designed this to offer you nearly unlimited flexibility: your students will be able to create over two million emoji combinations for a virtually limitless source of writing inspiration.
We’ve broken the emoji into the following sets for quick access:
Emotions and Feelings
Animals and Nature
People
Activities and Events
People and Places
Objects and Items
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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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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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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.
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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.
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.
Following the success of the DIGITAL GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS BUNDLE comes the ultimate movie response tool for Digital teachers, 1:1 and BYOD Classrooms.
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MAKE MOVIES MEANINGFUL wth this HUGE bundle of DIGITAL GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS.
This collection of 21 INDEPENDENT TASKS takes students beyond the special effects and trailers to look at films from a number of perspectives as a powerful form of VISUAL LITERACY.
Students can respond to any film using these highly engaging activities to to explore the following aspects of a film.
- IDENTIFYING THE CONFLICT & RESOLUTION WITHIN YOPUR FILM
- STORYBOARDING AND VISUALISING YOUR FILM
- BREAKING DOWN VOCABULARY AND JARGON FROM YOUR FILM
- WHAT ROLE DOES SOUND PLAY IN YOUR FILM?
- UNLOCK THE BACKGROUND OF YOUR FILM AT IMDB
- WRITING A CONSIDERED MOVIE REVIEW WITHOUT SPOILERS
- WHAT DOES THE CAMERA PORTRAY IN THIS FILM?
- WHAT CONNECTIONS CAN I MAKE TO THIS FILM?
- BREAKING DOWN MY FAVOURITE SCENE
- COMPARE AND CONTRAST BOOKS AND FILMS
- DISCOVER AND CREATE TAGLINES FOR YOUR FILM
- WRITING AN ALTERNATE ENDING TO YOUR FILM
- KEY PROPS AND OBJECTS FROM THE FILM
- IDENTIFYING THE FILM'S CLIMAX AND LOWS
- ACTOR BIOGRAPHY'S
- "AND THE AWARD GOES TO..."
- CREATING A WORTHY TRAILER
- CREATING AN EFFECTIVE MOVIE POSTER
- WRITE YOUR OWN MOVIE QUIZ
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
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.