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.
Spelling = frustration for a lot of kids, but it doesn’t have to! This editable Bloom's Spelling Activity Matrix, PowerPoint, and task card set means no prep for you and fun, fast learning for your students.
We have aligned this matrix to Bloom’s Taxonomy as well as Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences. By following the matrix, students take control of their own learning and decide which activities they will do. It addresses all aspects of spelling in language that students of all ages can understand, so it’s not just for kids - ESL teachers can just as easily make this a go-to resource.
This matrix will help your students discover how to use their spelling words effectively and creatively. This download contains a PDF version and an editable Word document that you can modify for any age or audience.
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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.
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
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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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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About Innovative Teaching Ideas
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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⚡ 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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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.
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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