Includes: Two posters with whiteboard expectations
Focus: Establishing routines for effectively using whiteboards during whole-class teaching
Summarising is an important skill to practise regularly with students. It also teaches students to take notes and identify key points.
The question words are a good starting point to identify the main ideas in a text. Not all question words are relevant, and we need to support students to be selective when working on summarising.
This template can be used to summarise a paragraph, short text or longer text.
It can be introduced during whole-class reading instruction (shared reading) so that you can explicitly model summarising and guide students to complete the template.
Includes: Two posters with whiteboard expectations
Focus: Establishing routines for effectively using whiteboards during whole-class teaching
Includes: a slideshow lesson plan, a student template and an exemplar.
Focus: poetry writing
Drawing inspiration from unexpected visitors
Focus: using photos of unexpected visitors to develop a Quick Write activity or a narrative writing lesson
