Hi I am Kev, my wife Belinda and I run Innovative Teaching Ideas. We love to learn, and now have three little learners to guide through life. Above all we would love to hear your feedback and thoughts around our products and can make resources to meet your needs.
Hi I am Kev, my wife Belinda and I run Innovative Teaching Ideas. We love to learn, and now have three little learners to guide through life. Above all we would love to hear your feedback and thoughts around our products and can make resources to meet your needs.
Massive Update for 2019 - Another 40 pages of content added
An entire unit of INFORMATION REPORT WRITING awaits you. Absolutely no prep required.
This editable PowerPoint bundle will allow you to teach your students how to write excellent Information reports using a proven model based on research skills, writing strategies and engaging content.
The bundle includes 96 PAGES of:
Lesson plans,
Teaching materials
Visual writing prompts
Assessment rubrics
Writing Checklists
Graphic Organizers
Research Tools
Plus much more
All presented in a great looking presentation targeted at students in years 3 - 6.that you can either DISPLAY ON SCREEN, PRINT or use via GOOGLE CLASSROOM
A ten question quiz about 'Fake News' and the Post-Truth media cycle we live within.
Highly relevant and engaging to students.
This quiz also includes an answer sheet.
*Updated July 2018 to now include a dedicated “samples” section.
Teaching students to write engaging Explanation texts that explain how and why things happen can be a tough task for even the most accomplished teacher… ⭐UNTIL NOW⭐ Because the EXCELLENT EXPLANATION WRITING UNIT offers a COMPLETE SOLUTION to teaching all styles of EXPLANATORY WRITING.
INCLUDING
✅ Sequences
✅ Causal Explanation Texts
✅ Consequential Explanation Texts
✅ Cycles
✅ Processes (Scientific, Mechanical and Biological events)
✅ Tutorials - Including videos
✅ Explanation of Historical Events
⭐ And much more NO PREP REQUIRED
Perfect for Google Classroom, Office 365, SeeSaw or other digital platforms. Also includes a Print version.
This HUGE BUNDLE offers a mix of hands-on, printable, and digital media resources. By the time you have finished this pack, your students won’t just be able to READ and COMPREHEND Explanations, but will also be WRITING their own with a high level of STRUCTURE, INSIGHT AND KNOWLEDGE.
It will keep your kids kids excited and engaged for weeks as they work through the following areas:
✔ A concise teaching guide that can be taught to a class or self-directed by students.
✔ Understanding the four pillars of all explanations
✔ Structure and Features of effective explanations
✔ Writing Activities. (Both independent and group tasks)
✔ Multiple Templates and Graphic Organizers
✔ Video and Visual Explanatory writing prompts
✔ Explanatory Writing Checklists
✔ Explanatory Writing Samples for all levels
✔ Assessment Rubrics
✔ PLUS MUCH MORE.
The entire collection is provided to you in EDITABLE PowerPoint and as a printable PDF eBook. Each lesson is a complete plan that eliminates your preparation time, but if you need to modify the content to suit a particular class, you can easily do so.
This evergreen resource will come in handy for fresh ideas for students to use their spelling words more effectively and creatively.
The matrix is built on Blooms Taxonomy and addresses all areas in simple to understand language for students of all ages.
Best of all it's completely Free!!! A review and Follow would be greatly appreciated
Use these templates to teach young writers how to write a basic letter or recount. Your students will learn about addresses and can get creative in decorating the front picture and creating a stamp of their own in the process
You have found THE TITANIC resource you have been searching for!! 105 years in the making...
If your have a one to one or BYOD program this independent unit on Titanic is unlike any other. Offering deep, personalized learning experiences incorporating proven learning technologies and quality teaching and learning. A meaningful use of technology within the classroom.
Whether you use Google Classroom, Drive, Office or even an iPad you are good to go. No Prep required and it is all Completely Editable.
This 40 slide digital interactive notebook is an unit of work on the world's most famous ship. The people, events, ingenuity and oversights which captured the worlds' imagination and and then changed history forever.
It will engage your students through a huge collection of Editable Digital Graphic and Text Organizers, multimedia, resources and interactive tasks all themed around Titanic.
Perfect as an English, literacy or history project.
Activities Include
- Digital Text Response Tasks
- Digital Titanic Timelines
- Digital Fact Vs. Opinion
- Digital Newspaper text / graphic organizers and templates
- Interactive Titanic video response task
- Create your own Titanic Google Map task
- Podcast audio response tasks
- A variety of interactive Titanic Writing planners and templates
- Digital Titanic Biography Response Tasks
- Digital Data representation and graphing based upon Titanic
- A range of open ended Titanic assessment tasks
- Digital Self assessment tools
** Plus much more
This is a deep unit of work guaranteed to both inform and showcase your students understanding of one the greatest achievements and disasters.
This is the type of resource which validates and proves the worth of all that technology in your classrooms.
Can you make the ultimate paper helicopter? Do you understand the principles of flight and gravity? How will you design, enhance, “tinker” and most importantly record your data and evidence of your findings?
All these essential questions will be answered through these excellent HANDS ON STEM activities. Everything is here for you NO PREP REQUIRED
The only materials required are paper, paper clips and scissors.
This project can be distributed individually via Google Classroom, OneNote or a similar platform or you can teach it to the entire class. All content and materials are easy to follow and fully prepared.
Become an engineer today and have some great fun learning about the basic principles of flight and gravity.
☀️⭐Huge update for 2018 - Now with ⚡101 Digital Graphic Organizers⚡ making this the largest product of it's kind on TES☀️⭐ now also includes a printable PDF version of every tool.
Introduce your students to 21st century learning with this GROWING BUNDLE OF 101 EDITABLE & PRINTABLE (if you must) GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS. ✌NO PREP REQUIRED!!!✌ Go paperless, and let your students express their knowledge and creativity through the power of technology and collaboration inside and outside the classroom with ease.
Whilst you don't have to have a 1:1 or BYOD classroom to benefit from this bundle, it has been purpose built to deliver through platforms such as ✔ GOOGLE CLASSROOM, ✔ OFFICE 365, ✔ G-SUITE ✔ DROPBOX or any CLOUD BASED LEARNING PLATFORM.
These beautiful digital templates will remove the paper trail whilst providing the opportunity to access these templates without assistance (All instructions are included on each graphic organizer.) leaving you to focus on doing what you do best... Teaching.
This is an ever growing bundle of Graphic Organizers with around 5 added each month. Buy now whilst it's cheap to receive all future additions for free.
⭐ TEMPLATES INCLUDED ⭐
Organizing the facts (Reading and Writing)
Story Sequencing Graphic Organizer
Timelines
Event Map Graphic Organizer
Story Map Graphic Organizer A
Story Map Graphic Organizer B
Journalistic Report Graphic Organizer
Plot Elements Graphic Organizer
Story Sequencing Graphic Organizer
Conflict / Resolution Graphic Organizer
Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer
Double Venn Diagram
Single Concept Map
Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer
Problem and Solution Graphic Organizer
Text Comparison Tool
Alphabet Knowledge Organizer
Facts Vs Opinion Graphic Organizer
Observation Response Graphic Organizer
U Plan Narrative Organizer
Vocabulary Dissection Tool
Character Traits Graphic Organizer
Character Analysis Tool
Animal Research Graphic Organizer
Biography Research Graphic Organizer
My Opinion Graphic Organizer
Biography Research Tool
Book Vs Film graphic Organizer
Cause and Effect Wheel
Problem and Solution Chart
Flow Diagram
Cycle Diagram
Y Chart
Spider Diagram
Writing Stimulus Tool
Newspaper Report Planner
Writing Stimulus Tool B
3-2-1 Fiction Follow Up
Vocabulary Concept Map
Animal ? Creature Graphic Organizer
DeBono's Thinking Hats
Family Tree Graphic Organizer
Computational Thinking Graphic Organizer
Pictograph Generator
Blank Bar Graph
Horizontal Bar Graph
Design Thinking Graphic Organizer
Question Tower
Key Facts Graphic Organizer
Fish Bone Graphic Organizer
Learning Triangle
Plus Too many others to list here...
What engages kids even more than listening to a good story? ☀️PARTICIPATING IN IT!☀️ That’s what they’ll be doing with AESOP'S FABLE POWER PACK, which offers a COMPLETE, NO-PREP UNIT.
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This HUGE BUNDLE offers a mix of hands-on, printable, and digital media resources. By the time you have finished this pack, your students won’t just be able to READ and COMPREHEND fables, but will also be WRITING their own unique fables with structure and purpose. That’s why this is one of the best reviewed products we have to offer – it keeps kids excited and engaged for over a week as you work through the following areas:
✔ What Is a Fable and Its Purpose?
✔ Who Is Aesop, The Father of Fables?
✔ 12 Famous Interactive Fables by Aesop (Professionally Narrated)
✔ Scripted Fable Theater - Turn These Fables into a Drama Class
✔ Deconstructing Fables for Meaning
✔ Planning and Assessment Rubrics for Writing Fables
✔ Fable Writing Workshop
✔ Character Traits Worksheets and Activities for All of Aesop's Creatures
✔ Digital and Paper Based Resources for Publishing Fables
✔ Fable Glossary and Curriculum Links.
The entire collection is provided to you in EDITABLE PowerPoint and Word formats and also available as a printable PDF eBook. Each lesson is a complete plan that eliminates your preparation time, but if you need to modify the content to suit a particular class, you can easily do so. We even hired a professional voice actor so that you can listen to these fables with your class in style!
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This quiz will access students’ understanding of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl. Students will read closely to determine what the text says explicitly as well as make logical inferences about characters and events from the story. Students will also answer questions about key ideas, theme, and other literary elements. This quiz will include questions from knowledge and reasoning standards.
Teach your students the MOST ESSENTIAL SKILLS OF THE INFORMATION ERA to become expert DIGITAL RESEARCHERS.
How to correctly ask questions to search engines on various devices and platforms
How to filter and refine your results to find exactly what you want every time.
Essential Research and critical thinking skills for students
Plagiarism, Citing and acknowledging other people’s work.
How to query, synthesize and record your findings in a logical manner.
Completely updated for 2019 with another 20 pages of content and and new follow up tasks.
This GAMIFIED resource provides teachers and students with the SECRET HANDBOOK of operators, tips and tricks to the worlds most popular website… YOU WILL NEVER USE GOOGLE THE SAME AGAIN.
After presenting this session to thousands of teachers and students, I know most people completely waste their time searching Google, settling for the first thing that pops up instead of what they really need.
This doesn’t have to be the case. In just one lesson, you can turn anyone (teacher, student, even a hardcore web addict) into a GOOGLE SEARCH NINJA who can find exactly what they want the first time, every time. These are the secret tips and tricks nobody has ever told you about, all presented in a fun, engaging, completely editable PowerPoint game.
You owe this to your students if you ask them to use the internet for research. IT IS A LIFE SKILL FOR THE 21st CENTURY.
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This HUGE collection of READING ACTIVITIES for ANY BOOK or TEXT TYPE is packed with DIFFERENTIATED TASKS for FICTION and NONFICTION TEXT GENRES. Your students can work INDEPENDENTLY or in GROUPS through these FUN and ENGAGING activities that will make reading in 2023 a blast!
WHAT'S INCLUDED
60+ activities require students to RESPOND in various genres and styles.
40+ activities incorporating ARTISTIC and CREATIVE skills about their book
30+ TECHNOLOGY activities, including open-ended iPad and web-based tasks
25+ GROUP-based tasks
20+ tasks requiring RESEARCH and ENQUIRY of concepts within a text.
50+ tasks to use with FILMS, GRAPHIC NOVELS and DIGITAL LITERACIES.
15+ activities involving DRAMA, MUSIC and ROLE PLAYING
88 PRINTABLE Task Cards
25+ GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS that can be applied to any text
Reading WORKSHEETS
These evergreen 125 activities are available in DIGITAL and PRINT formats for you to use in READING CENTER ROTATIONS or online INSTRUCTIONAL TASKS your students can efficiently complete.
This top seller will not disappoint when providing a nice balance of direct instruction and freedom to let students personalize their learning due to the range and diversity of resources and lesson content.
This set of beautifully presented reading activities ensures students are engaged and on task during literacy rotations and can be used for both groups and independent study.
Each 40-60 minute lesson contains multiple "evergreen" activities so that they can be applied to any student or text.
Every activity has clear instructions and open-ended outcomes to meet the needs of all ability ranges. We know this through experience: an exemplary teacher designed each one, and they have all been used in our classrooms for over two decades.
Writing an essay can be a daunting task for both teachers and students in terms of creating and crafting a high quality essay, not to mention editing and grading them.
It seems though we may have overlooked one of the toughest steps in writing an essay, selecting an appropriate and interesting topic for your students.
Thankfully www.edgalaxy.com have put together a list of 25 great essay topics that might just make that process a little easier.
This is the number one result of Google for essay topics for students which has now been beautifully represented as a visual presentation.
As a freebie we would greatly appreciate a follow and or a rating as a sign of your appreciation if possible.
Spelling = frustration for a lot of kids, but it doesn’t have to! This editable Bloom's Spelling Activity Matrix, PowerPoint, and task card set means no prep for you and fun, fast learning for your students.
We have aligned this matrix to Bloom’s Taxonomy as well as Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences. By following the matrix, students take control of their own learning and decide which activities they will do. It addresses all aspects of spelling in language that students of all ages can understand, so it’s not just for kids - ESL teachers can just as easily make this a go-to resource.
This matrix will help your students discover how to use their spelling words effectively and creatively. This download contains a PDF version and an editable Word document that you can modify for any age or audience.
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Introduce your students to the imagination and mystique of Greek mythology while teaching concepts of cause and effect with this no prep and easily extendable lesson.
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The heroism and tragedy of Greek myths make them perfect springboards into a variety of writing and philosophical elements for elementary children. However, their complexity can make prep a chore. Save time for yourself with this completely prepared presentation – all you have to do is open and run the slideshow on your interactive whiteboard or computer. And if you want to keep going with the topic, the included extension tasks will keep kids busy for at least one more lesson. If you’d like to engage your students in two important topics at once, this quick and easy lesson is for you.
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Learning the alphabet is the first step for your child to learn how to read. With reading comes a greater vocabulary.(and curiosity) It helps kids express themselves about their environment and gain more knowledge.
This great Poster will be awelcome edition to any classroom or with it's bright colours and simplicity.
Teach your students to independently check their own narrative / story writing with these beautiful checklists and rubric.
These editable checklists are specifically for narratives or story writing. We will be creating more for other writing genres in the near future.
There are three age variations in the bundle for Junior (Ages 5 - 7), Middle (7 - 11) and Senior (11 - 15). Each bundle contains both a student checklist for independent assessment and a student / teacher rubric for conferencing. Check the preview for a visual example.
Each age group has been stylised and written to appeal to different age groups.
With six to a page you can easily print these out and distribute to students an re use them over and over.
Best of all they are completely editable if you wish to change any element of it.
Give your students the tools they need for writing great stories.