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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.

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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.
Months of the Year Poster
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Months of the Year Poster

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This is an excellent classroom prompt for younger students who need assistance remembering and spelling the months of the year. 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.
Homonyms, Homophones & Homographs Poster Series
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Homonyms, Homophones & Homographs Poster Series

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A peak at this list will pique your students’ curiosity and help them see the right ways to write! This intriguing, high-resolution poster set will brighten your wall and spice up your kids’ writing. *************************************************************************** This handy reference set will help your students clarify the use of words with multiple meanings, similar sounds, and different pronunciations. Stop misuse of words and the cut off the dreaded they’re-their-there problem before it ever begins. With eight posters covering 72 examples, you will take care of all the homonyms, homophones, and homographs your elementary learners are likely to encounter. Each example comes with an accompanying emoji that is sure to get their attention and help their memory as well! 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
Editable Narrative Checklists for Students and Teachers
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Editable Narrative Checklists for Students and Teachers

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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.
Pokémon Go: All About Me Editable Activity
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Pokémon Go: All About Me Editable Activity

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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. Like the sound of this? If you would like 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 - Search for these items on TES Year Long Visual Writing Prompts Fable Power Pack Teaching Digital Technologies and STEM ***************************************************************************** YOUR REVIEWS ARE ESSENTIAL IN KEEPING OUR PRODUCTS LOW PRICED AND REGULARLY UPDATED!!! IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO US!!! PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW
Emoji Writing Bundle
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Emoji Writing Bundle

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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! *************************************************************************** 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 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 *************************************************************************** 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 ***************************************************************************** YOUR REVIEWS ARE ESSENTIAL IN KEEPING OUR PRODUCTS LOW PRICED AND REGULARLY UPDATED!!! IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO US!!! PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW
Printable Victorian Modern Cursive Handwriting Templates
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Printable Victorian Modern Cursive Handwriting Templates

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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.
Writing a Procedural Text Poster
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Writing a Procedural Text Poster

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A procedural text is used to explain • How to do something •How to get Somewhere •When a set of rules need to be understood. A procedure is generally quite easy to write as long you know a little bit about your topic. These posters will walk students and teachers through the process of writing an effective procedural text by breaking it down into simple steps. *************************************************************************** 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 ***************************************************************************** YOUR REVIEWS ARE ESSENTIAL IN KEEPING OUR PRODUCTS LOW PRICED AND REGULARLY UPDATED!!! IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO US!!! PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW About Innovative Teaching Ideas Terms Copyright © Innovative Teaching Ideas. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. See product file for clipart and font credits.
Let's learn the alphabet poster
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Let's learn the alphabet poster

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Learning the alphabet is the first step for your child to learn how to read. With reading comes a greater vocabulary.(and curiosity) It helps kids express themselves about their environment and gain more knowledge. This great Poster will be awelcome edition to any classroom or with it's bright colours and simplicity.
Which search tool should I use?  Classroom Poster
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Which search tool should I use? Classroom Poster

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This poster highlights the 'Big Three' search engines for teachers and students and highlights the strengths and weaknesses for each one. Google Search Wolfram Alpha Wikipedia Your students will definitely find this a useful resource next time they reach for a computer to look something up as it gives them both purpose and direction on what to use and how best to use it, I would recommend also taking a look at our "How to use Google Search like a Boss" Which has been hugely popular in teaching students how actually use Google Search with purpose and direction.
Greek Mythology - Cause and Effect
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Greek Mythology - Cause and Effect

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Introduce your students to the imagination and mystique of Greek mythology while teaching concepts of cause and effect with this no prep and easily extendable lesson. *************************************************************************** The heroism and tragedy of Greek myths make them perfect springboards into a variety of writing and philosophical elements for elementary children. However, their complexity can make prep a chore. Save time for yourself with this completely prepared presentation – all you have to do is open and run the slideshow on your interactive whiteboard or computer. And if you want to keep going with the topic, the included extension tasks will keep kids busy for at least one more lesson. If you’d like to engage your students in two important topics at once, this quick and easy lesson is for you. 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 Teaching Digital Technologies & STEM
“All About Me” Back to School Worksheet
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“All About Me” Back to School Worksheet

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Get your students off on the right foot with this fun back to school activity! This first day worksheet is a great personal introduction and icebreaker for kids, and needs no prep from you – just print and go. *************************************************************************** This worksheet comes in four styles that students can easily customize any way they like. Kids will enjoy filling out and presenting the following information:  Name  Birthday  Age  Space for a self portrait or photo  My Hero  My Favorite Food  My Favorite Sport  My Favorite Thing at School  My Favorite Hobby  My Goals for the Year Each All About Me poster is 8.5 by 11 inches, but you can print it on A4 and or easily scale it to A3. These make great wall laminates, and can be a great tool to help you target students’ interests and keep them focused on their goals throughout the year. 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 - Search for these items on TES Year Long Visual Writing Prompts Fable Power Pack Teaching Digital Technologies and STEM ***************************************************************************** YOUR REVIEWS ARE ESSENTIAL IN KEEPING OUR PRODUCTS LOW PRICED AND REGULARLY UPDATED!!! IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO US!!! PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW About Innovative Teaching Ideas Terms Copyright © Innovative Teaching Ideas. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. See product file for clipart and font credits.
Elements of narratives poster series
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Elements of narratives poster series

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Students probably love writing narratives more than any other genre. It allows them to use freedom and knowledge to share their ideas in their own style. I have put together a series of 6 posters that will assist students in creating and reading narratives including. Plot Details Prediction Setting Characters Fiction and Non Fiction
Google Search Like a Boss
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Google Search Like a Boss

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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. Related Products Digital Graphic Organizers / Digital Notebooks (Google Classroom & PowerPoint) Emoji Writing Bundle FAKE NEWS UNIT: Teach students to analyze news and get the facts Fake News Quiz Which search tool should I use? Classroom Poster Other Popular Products From Innovative Teaching Ideas - 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.
Alphabet Posters
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Alphabet Posters

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Take care of your most essential wall item for under a buck with our high-resolution alphabet poster set. This is a no prep set for you, just print and go! *************************************************************************** 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! 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.
English Posters Big Bundle
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English Posters Big Bundle

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Never worry about your wall again! With over 120 high-resolution, vibrant posters covering every major English concept from grades K-7, you will have a valuable reference for your students to refer to all year. We created these easy-to-understand, attractive posters to work with any elementary through junior high curriculum worldwide, and can be a go-to tool for keeping on track with Common Core standards. As a resource that will be front and center in your classroom, we knew it was important for them to capture students’ attention. So, we hired professional graphic artists to put these together. It was worth it – they look amazing. And they aren’t just for kids, either; ESL teachers love them. For a complete table of contents, check the preview file. Some of our major topics include:  8 Elements of Effective Writing (2 Variations)  Parts of Speech Including: Nouns, Adverbs, Interjections, Conjunctions, Prepositions, Pronouns, and Verbs,  26 Letters of the Alphabet in Victorian Modern Cursive Handwriting  24 Synonyms for Commonly Used Words  8 Poster Set Outlining the Key Elements of Writing Narratives  10 Poster Set Covering Colours (Colors for those of you in the U.S. )  8 Poster Set - Homonyms, Homographs and Homophones  The Writing Process Diagram  Months of the Year, Seasons, and Days of the Week for Young Writers  Visual: Let's Learn the Alphabet  Parts of a Paragraph  Alternate Parts of Speech Posters  Sounding out Words Chart  First 100 Most Commonly Used Words  Second 100 Most Commonly Used Words  Understanding Punctuation  Understanding Vowels  And much more! Like the sound of this? 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 - Search for these items on TES Year Long Visual Writing Prompts Fable Power Pack Teaching Digital Technologies and STEM ***************************************************************************** YOUR REVIEWS ARE ESSENTIAL IN KEEPING OUR PRODUCTS LOW PRICED AND REGULARLY UPDATED!!! IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO US!!! PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW
Eye Catching Synonym Posters (CLEVER words for Creative Writers)
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Eye Catching Synonym Posters (CLEVER words for Creative Writers)

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These posters are an Essential addition to any writing centre!! These professionally designed high resolution posters can be printed to any size including full poster. They are a great addition to KS1 and KS2 There are approximately 30 *Creative* words on each poster to replace these over-used words: Happy Interesting Said Good Big Small Move Walk Scared You get two variations of each poster which you can see in the previews and thumbnails. It will enhance any writing session and give a great deal of confidence to reluctant writers. *************************************************************************** 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 ***************************************************************************** YOUR REVIEWS ARE ESSENTIAL IN KEEPING OUR PRODUCTS LOW PRICED AND REGULARLY UPDATED!!! IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO US!!! PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW About Innovative Teaching Ideas Terms Copyright © Innovative Teaching Ideas. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. See product file for clipart and font credits.
Editable Alphabet Posters
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Editable Alphabet Posters

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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! *************************************************************************** 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! 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.
Christmas Activity Workbook: 57 Pages of Fun Festive Tasks
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Christmas Activity Workbook: 57 Pages of Fun Festive Tasks

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This booklet is aimed at primary teachers and students. KS1 & KS2 It is designed to fill 2 weeks worth of worthwhile learning time with Christmas themed activities based around literacy, numeracy, science, art, craft and just plain old fashioned fun. No Prep required, in total there are over 80 tasks for students to complete which are broken into 15 major activities as follows. 2: Christmas Comparisons 3: Tallying Christmas Temperatures 4: Christmas Crossword Puzzle 5: Christmas Connections around the Globe 6: Christmas Energy 7: Christmas Math Word Problems 8: Christmas Compound Sentences 9: Christmas Calendar 10: Christmas Calculations 11: Christmas Essay Topics 12: Christmas Thinkers Keys Matrix 13: Christmas Jumble 14: Christmas writing mega bundle 15: Christmas Colouring Collection Answers are provided for all tasks and can be easily removed if you wish to do so. It has been used by numerous teachers over the years and has always been a hit with students. *************************************************************************** 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 ***************************************************************************** YOUR REVIEWS ARE ESSENTIAL IN KEEPING OUR PRODUCTS LOW PRICED AND REGULARLY UPDATED!!! IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO US!!! PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW About Innovative Teaching Ideas Terms Copyright © Innovative Teaching Ideas. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. See product file for clipart and font credits.