Includes: PDF of dice reading activity (fiction 1)
Focus: independent reading activity
This TED-Ed video could be used to support students to generate ideas for different writing purposes.
Younger students could write about 'A day in the life of a penguin', while older students could use the information to persuade, inform or explain about penguin habitats and their decline in recent years.
The TED-Ed weblink also provides other lesson ideas and material that can be used to help students to think critically and engage in discussion.
Images by Siggy Nowak and Public Co (Pixabay).
Includes: PDF of dice reading activity (fiction 1)
Focus: independent reading activity
Using funny animal images to warm students up for writing
Focus: generating ideas, sentences, words, spelling, punctuation, editing
Focus: introducing and establishing self-check and partner-check routines