Visible thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching learning in all content areas and fostering students’ intellectual development at the same time. My experience in teaching with visible thinking routines showed me that it fosters greater motivation for learning and a shift in classroom culture toward a community of enthusiastically engaged thinkers and learners. You can check Harvard Project Zero website for more information. https://pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines This inquiry and project-based pack on climate change has been prepared with an interdisciplinary approach, so you can use it either in an English , or a Citizenship class. There are 92 slides with many texts and videos. There is a response activity after each of them and a project at the end of the unit. Students are asked to prepare a TED talk after learning how to prepare one, analyze cartoons and news reports, create a cartoon and write a news report afterwards. It includes a Quizlet activity, links for games on sustainability, links to websites for research, rubrics, self and peer evaluation forms, and reflection activities. Students are provided with choices and all activities are based on their voice to differentiate learning. As there are multiple exposures o content, you can also differentiate learning by assigning different tasks to different groups of students. Apart from the Power Point in the attachment, I included the Google slides link in notes to the teacher section which will enable you to delete or change the content according to the needs of your students. Your students can complete all the forms on the slides version and send it to you if you are using Google classroom, which will save paper. If not, all of them are printable. The entire unit will last for 4-6 weeks depending on the number of hours you are teaching per week.

This 48-page resource pack includes fun games and game-based activities about numbers and place value, addition and subtraction for year 1. My students loved the games and the math superhero mouse that assisted them in some of the activities. You can use the pack to review numbers, addition, and subtraction in class or assign it during the term break or the summer break. It can be used at the beginning of year 2 as well. ESL teachers can also use it if they are teaching CLIL.

By using this comprehensive inquiry-based guide, you can analyze any novel or short story using Harvard Project Zero Visible Thinking Routines and reading strategies. It includes 3 projects with rubrics, 3 writing tasks, and 20 different activities, most of which include Visible Thinking Routines. Other than Visible Thinking Routines, there are cooperative learning activities such as expert groups, gallery walk, Socratic discussions. There are also formative assessment tasks at the end of each project. I used Trudy Ludwig’s short novel, Just Kidding but you can use them with any text on bullying with the exception of one activity: Reading response journal. The questions in this activity are about the novel. You can use similar questions about the text you are using. It will take you one month to complete all the tasks and projects in the guide, but if you do not have enough time, you can omit some of them. You can also differentiate them by assigning them to different groups of students. You can use it either digitally as there is a Google Drive link in Notes to the Teacher section or as a hard copy if your students do not have devices. Please do not start using the guide before you read Notes to the Teacher. Thank you for buying this resource. If you liked it, please visit my shop at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/aysinalp58 .

This 32-slide lesson on how to spot fake news to become critical consumers of media includes 3 mini projects, a game, videos, infographics, activities and reflection questions at the end of the lesson. The activities are scaffolded, and step-by-step the students are introduced to the tips, tools, and websites on how to spot fake news and images on both print and digital. There is a PowerPoint version in the attachment and a Google Drive link in Notes for the Teacher section. You can edit both of them to make adjustments according to the needs of your students. Please do not start using the guide before you read Notes for the Teacher. Thank you for buying this resource. If you liked it, please visit my shop at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/aysinalp58 .

Book Character Day Project is a great way to finish the year creatively and with great fun. The purpose of the project is to instill the love of reading in students as well as improving their literacy skills by allowing them to express themselves creatively. It is also a great way for the students to choose their summer books as their friends’ recommendations are much more important and effective for this age group. Take your students to the library and ask them to choose a book that they haven’t read before. Give them a month to read the book in their free time. Alternatively, you can ask them to choose a character from a novel they read during the school year. Then, give them the project task sheet in the attachment and two weeks to complete it to be ready for the day. In our school we use the hallway to conduct the project. We put tables in the hallway for the students to display their projects and decorate the hallway with posters on reading and student work (book reports, posters, etc. the students prepared previously during the year). Each class is given one lesson period to present their books and favourite characters. Their audience includes students from other classes at the same level, the parents, and the teachers. If you don’t have enough space in the hallway, you can do it in your classroom or in the library. The task sheet in the attachment includes information on how to prepare for the for the day and how to present the project as well as the tasks. It also includes some photos from the Book Character Day we organized at our school. The tasks include two graphic organizers, preparing a digital word cloud, a bio cube, and a (fake) social media profile page for the favourite character, writing a bio poem, a journal entry, a letter from the favorite character to another character in the book, creating a poster with visuals and all the task sheets, guidelines on preparing a book talk . There are also three rubrics - for the letter, poster and the book talk and a self assessment form for the students to complete at the end of the project. You can also prepare a feedback form for the parents if you are going to invite them. The rubrics have not been graded. If you are going to grade this project, add the marking scheme to the rubrics before you give them to your students.

This 33-page cross-curricular pack is ideal for the teachers who want to prepare their students for the requirements and the challenges of the century that we live in. The activities cover all the 21st Century skills such as critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, effective communication, and problem-solving skills. After the warm-up activities, students watch an ecological rock opera on extinction and answer questions about it. They then • write a journal entry on how the lyrics relate to the problem in the story and how they give a powerful message, • write the lyrics of a new song for the rock opera, design a comic strip to convey the message of their song, • create a video about an animal facing extinction or an animation on environmental issues, • write a letter to one of the world leaders about environmental issues, • prepare a 10-minute Ted talk style speech on environmental problems and their solutions for them using the information they have learned, • conduct a school-wide project on an environmental issue of their own choice. All the activities are guided and students are given several resources to choose from to make a video or animation, to write the lyrics, to design a comic strip, to give an effective speech, and to prepare an effective presentation. Most of the activities require group work so that the students can improve collaboration skills. The pack includes a brief guide on how to collaborate effectively and why collaboration is an effective skill. There is also a teamwork rubric that evaluates each student’s performance as an effective team member. There is a rubric for each activity, self and peer evaluation forms, a reflection activity, and a learning journal for the students to fill in.

This resource for KS2 or KS3 is also ideal for ESL students. It comprises of 9 different worksheets aimed at teaching and practicing Simple Present, Simple Past, Past Continuous, Present Perfect, Present Perfect Progressive, Past Perfect and Past Perfect Progressive. It includes explanations on the usage of each tense, examples, several grammar exercises from fill in the blanks to transformations, reading and writing activities.

This 33-page cross-curricular pack is ideal for the teachers who want to prepare their students for the requirements and the challenges of the century that we live in. The activities cover all the 21st Century skills such as critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, effective communication, and problem-solving skills. After the warm-up activities, students watch an ecological rock opera on extinction and answer questions about it. They then • write a journal entry on how the lyrics relate to the problem in the story and how they give a powerful message, • write the lyrics of a new song for the rock opera, design a comic strip to convey the message of their song, • create a video about an animal facing extinction or an animation on environmental issues, • write a letter to one of the world leaders about environmental issues, • prepare a 10-minute Ted talk style speech on environmental problems and their solutions for them using the information they have learned, • conduct a school-wide project on an environmental issue of their own choice. All the activities are guided and students are given several resources to choose from to make a video or animation, to write the lyrics, to design a comic strip, to give an effective speech, and to prepare an effective presentation. Most of the activities require group work so that the students can improve collaboration skills. The pack includes a brief guide on how to collaborate effectively and why collaboration is an effective skill. There is also a teamwork rubric that evaluates each student’s performance as an effective team member. There is a rubric for each activity, self and peer evaluation forms, a reflection activity, and a learning journal for the students to fill in.

Here is a complete unit based on a real life character to enhance your students’ viewing, listening, speaking and presentation skills while teaching them about global issues. The questions in the tasks are differentiated addressing both low order and higher order thinking skills and all the tasks have been designed to enhance your students’ critical and creative thinking skills. With one click, you can add or delete tasks/questions based on your students’ abilities or interests. Alternatively, you can assign different tasks to different groups of students to differentiate learning, and have them share their work with the rest of the class at the end of each task.

This is a great reflection activity for the students preparing for exams. I have designed it for my students who are taking the IGCSE English exam but it can easily be adapted to any other exam such as SAT, IELTS, TOEFL your students are preparing for. It gives the students an opportunity to revise the key concepts they have learned throughout the year and to consider the rules, study tips, do’s and don’ts of the exam while they are working in groups to prepare a learning guide for the students who are going to take this exam prep course and the exam next year. My students told me that it helped them a lot to internalize all the rules and the expectations of the exam and get a good grade. This activity also helps to polish up students’ critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, multimedia and oral presentation skills. Since the students have been asked to prepare a digital learning guide, they are required to use tech tools effectively and creatively. The pack includes three rubrics for multimedia presentation, oral presentation and group work; self and peer evaluation forms; a list on different presentation tools with links; tips and links on public speaking, oral presentations, and group presentations. The most exciting part of this project for the students was the presentation as I took them to the classes of the students who are going to take this course and exam next year to present. If you have time and if you can arrange that, please do so as it becomes a real life experience and makes the project much more meaningful for the students. If not, you can publish the presentations on your class blog, the school website or share it in Google docs. Apart from the time allotted for the presentation, the students spent 8 (40-minute) lessons to finalize the project: • 2 lessons for brainstorming and outlining. • 3 lessons for preparing the guide • 2 lessons for bringing the pieces together and finalizing the presentation • 1 lesson on rehearsing for the presentation

Improve your students'/child's grammar skills with this fun and engaging bundle. This bundle is ideal for all ESL and ELL students and for the students who are preparing for KET and FCE exams. It includes 8 detailed worksheets on Gerunds and Infinitives, Reported Speech, Passive Voice and Conditionals with: *detailed explanations of the rules * gap-fill and sentence transformation exercises * sentence completions * reading response activities *creative writing activities based on videos. This is intended for use by one teacher. It is not to be redistributed to an entire school or district. It may not be redistributed or sold online. Enjoy! Thanks for taking the time to stop by my store! @aysinalp1 Follow 21st Century Literacies Shop

Here is a great resource for the refugee week. It includes texts, videos, games, graphic organizers, reflection forms, a creative writing activity and a project. There are two rubrics: one for the creative writing activity and another one for the project. You can use it either as a distance learning resource or in the classroom. I have added Word and PDF versions so that you can make changes in it if you want. I also gave the link to the Google document that you can share with your students at the top of the Word and PDF versions.

Visible thinking is a broad and flexible framework for enriching learning in all content areas and fostering students’ intellectual development at the same time. My experience in teaching with visible thinking routines showed me that it fosters greater motivation for learning and a shift in classroom culture toward a community of enthusiastically engaged thinkers and learners. You can check Harvard Project Zero website for more information. https://pz.harvard.edu/thinking-routines This inquiry and project-based pack on climate change has been prepared with an interdisciplinary approach, so you can use it either in an English , or a Citizenship class. There are 92 slides with many texts and videos. There is a response activity after each of them and a project at the end of the unit. Students are asked to prepare a TED talk after learning how to prepare one, analyze cartoons and news reports, create a cartoon and write a news report afterwards. It includes a Quizlet activity, links for games on sustainability, links to websites for research, rubrics, self and peer evaluation forms, and reflection activities. Students are provided with choices and all activities are based on their voice to differentiate learning. As there are multiple exposures o content, you can also differentiate learning by assigning different tasks to different groups of students. Apart from the Power Point in the attachment, I included the Google slides link in notes to the teacher section which will enable you to delete or change the content according to the needs of your students. Your students can complete all the forms on the slides version and send it to you if you are using Google classroom, which will save paper. If not, all of them are printable. The entire unit will last for 4-6 weeks depending on the number of hours you are teaching per week.

By using this comprehensive inquiry-based guide, you can analyze any novel or short story using Harvard Project Zero Visible Thinking Routines and reading strategies. It includes 3 projects with rubrics, 3 writing tasks, and 20 different activities, most of which include Visible Thinking Routines. Other than Visible Thinking Routines, there are cooperative learning activities such as expert groups, gallery walk, Socratic discussions. There are also formative assessment tasks at the end of each project. I used Trudy Ludwig’s short novel, Just Kidding but you can use them with any text on bullying with the exception of one activity: Reading response journal. The questions in this activity are about the novel. You can use similar questions about the text you are using. It will take you one month to complete all the tasks and projects in the guide, but if you do not have enough time, you can omit some of them. You can also differentiate them by assigning them to different groups of students. You can use it either digitally as there is a Google Drive link in Notes to the Teacher section or as a hard copy if your students do not have devices. Please do not start using the guide before you read Notes to the Teacher. Thank you for buying this resource. If you liked it, please visit my shop at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/aysinalp58 .

Improve your students'/child's grammar skills with this fun and engaging bundle. This bundle is ideal for all ESL and ELL students and for the students who are preparing for PET and FCE exams. It includes 8 detailed worksheets on Gerunds and Infinitives, Reported Speech, Passive Voice and Conditionals with: *detailed explanations of the rules * gap-fill and sentence transformation exercises * sentence completions * reading response activities *creative writing activities based on videos. This is intended for use by one teacher. It is not to be redistributed to an entire school or district. It may not be redistributed or sold online. Enjoy! Thanks for taking the time to stop by my store! @aysinalp1 Follow 21st Century Literacies Shop