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.
You are getting 101 WACKY WORD PUZZLES. These are an excellent NO PREP activity that can be used in ENGLISH, as an ICEBREAKER, a test of CRITICAL THINKING or just a FUN ACTIVITY for students and teachers of all ages.
These puzzles will challenge your critical thinking and logic to determine common phrases. Some are really simple and straightforward others will challenge you.
These are an excellent resource for students in grade 5 and up, and can be done INDEPENDENTLY as a silent test, or as a COLLABORATIVE problem solving task for the whole class.
We have bundled together the webs most complete collection of Wacky Word challenges and HERE'S WHAT YOU GET.
- 202 Beautifully presented Wacky Wordies PowerPoint Slides with questions and answers.
- A paper based test of 101 Wacky Wordies for a silent test scenario
- Wacky wordies flash cards that can be cut out and used as a game or any literacy activity.
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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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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Year Long Visual Writing Prompts
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About Innovative Teaching Ideas
You are purchasing 10 independent tasks for students in grades 2 - 4 which focus on the following elements.
- Codes & Cyphers
- Understanding Binary
- Direction / Navigation
- Algorithms
- Logic
- Technology language and terminology
- Computational Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
These tasks will go a long way in teaching students the key elements of STEM & Digital Technologies.
Take the leap in to the CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE and ditch your paper based reading logs or journals FOREVER.
This dynamic BUNDLE OF RESOURCES allows you to track and assess your students reading with far more efficiency and effectiveness than ever before.
What you get:
- A dynamic DIGITAL READING SURVEY which AUTOMATICALLY ADAPTS based upon the genre of book your students are reading and what point of the text they are up to
- A pre-written LETTER FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS explaining how it all works and the clear benefits it offers teachers, students and parents.
- A set of POSTRS AND BOOKMARKS matched to your class reading log so you kids can access this ANYTIME, ANYWHERE on ANY DEVICE
- A VIDEO TUTORIALexplaining how to edit, customize and deliver this to parents and students with ease, as well as how to sort, filter and manage your student data.
EVERY ELEMENT OF THIS RESOURCE IS COMPLETELY EDITABLE. ---
IT IS READY TO GO NO PREP REQUIRED OR YOU CAN TAILOR IT EXACTLY TO YOUR NEEDS BY FOLLOWING OUR SIMPLE TUTORIAL VIDEO.
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
This bright and beautiful caterpillar classroom display offers you numerous learning opportunities across all curriculum areas.
You are getting a FULLY EDITABLE POWERPOINT caterpillar display in a variety of presentation options.
These can be used for
WORD WALLS
SIGHT WORDS
MATH DISPLAYS
GENERAL CLASSROOM DISPLAYS
ANYTHING YOU WANT It's editable remember!!
It's all here - Just download and print.
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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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
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.
*Updated July 2018 to now include a dedicated “samples” section.
Teaching students to write engaging Explanation texts that explain how and why things happen can be a tough task for even the most accomplished teacher… ⭐UNTIL NOW⭐ Because the EXCELLENT EXPLANATION WRITING UNIT offers a COMPLETE SOLUTION to teaching all styles of EXPLANATORY WRITING.
INCLUDING
✅ Sequences
✅ Causal Explanation Texts
✅ Consequential Explanation Texts
✅ Cycles
✅ Processes (Scientific, Mechanical and Biological events)
✅ Tutorials - Including videos
✅ Explanation of Historical Events
⭐ And much more NO PREP REQUIRED
Perfect for Google Classroom, Office 365, SeeSaw or other digital platforms. Also includes a Print version.
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 Explanations, but will also be WRITING their own with a high level of STRUCTURE, INSIGHT AND KNOWLEDGE.
It will keep your kids kids excited and engaged for weeks as they work through the following areas:
✔ A concise teaching guide that can be taught to a class or self-directed by students.
✔ Understanding the four pillars of all explanations
✔ Structure and Features of effective explanations
✔ Writing Activities. (Both independent and group tasks)
✔ Multiple Templates and Graphic Organizers
✔ Video and Visual Explanatory writing prompts
✔ Explanatory Writing Checklists
✔ Explanatory Writing Samples for all levels
✔ Assessment Rubrics
✔ PLUS MUCH MORE.
The entire collection is provided to you in EDITABLE PowerPoint and 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.
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.