Fair verus Fare
6 Sep 2020

Fair verus Fare

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I often find my students confuse ‘fair’ and ‘fare’ and incorrectly spell ‘welfare’ as ‘wellfair’. When helping children differentiate between homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings), it is often useful to employ … Continued

Memes
1 Sep 2020

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

CommonLit
9 Aug 2020

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
4 Aug 2020

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
30 Jul 2020

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