Archer (2023) suggests four ways of ensuring students are actively involved in the learning process: Request frequent responses from students EXAMPLES: Choral responses, gestures, holding up response cards, sharing with a partner. Require overt responses – saying, writing, doing EXAMPLES: … Continued
Lancaster (2022) has some easy to follow suggestions for writing a powerful speech that could easily be taught to students. Below are the key steps: Example: How do you feel? Anxious? Nervous? Example: It’s wasted words, wasted time, wasted effort. … Continued
In terms of language, morphology is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language: ‘Morph’=shape/form and ‘ology’=the study of. It includes the identification and analysis of stems, root words (often … Continued
Although many hours each week are allocated to reading in a classroom, especially in the junior years, many students are not developing a love of reading or choosing reading as an out-of-school activity. Classroom reading time is still likely to … Continued
Have students illustrate each of the key words in the following poem and then determine the part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, pronoun, etc.) of each homophone. Help students search for a list of homophones and then make … Continued