Memes

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After reading this post about memes, I thought that this could be a great writing prompt. You could show your students a meme reflecting a particular emotion and they could write a paragraph: Describing the emotion Describing a time when … Continued

Absquatulate

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Emina McLean’s video ‘How to Teach Vocabulary and Why’ has some research based suggestions for teaching vocabulary that many teachers would find interesting. However, I have a couple of additional suggestions based on the memory and learning research: Link to … Continued

CommonLit

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  CommonLit is a great resource for teachers and parents. It is an online library of free texts from a range of genres. These texts can be located according to reading difficulty, genre, topics, themes and literary devices (e.g., alliteration, … Continued

Word Webs

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An important component of effective writing is having a wide vocabulary so you can choose words that convey the required meaning and to add interest so the text engages readers and sustains their attention. One fun activity to increase students’ … Continued

Providing Feedback

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FANTASTIC WORK YOU’RE SUCH A GOOD GIRL/BOY YOU’RE NOT TRYING THIS IS EASY  – YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO WORK IT OUT GREAT WORK WELL DONE THIS IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH These are the types of statements we often say … Continued