Archive for July 2014
Teaching to different intelligence types can cause problems-but not any more! This post shall explain the various types of intelligence in simple terms. It will guide your students towards a career in their strongest intelligence and will confirm to them what they already know. Most of all, it’s fun and they will think you are a magician!
This is a lesson EVERY teacher needs to impart to their students.
Just click on the Microsoft document below and you can photocopy it for your classes.
USING INTELLIGENCE KNOWLEDGE TO MODIFY YOUR TEACHING STYLES
If you want further information on ‘Blue-Sky Thinking’ or the ‘Teachers’ Guide’, just click on the images below.
This is a free creative writing book for all secondary school teachers to enjoy and share. I am uploading it in Microsoft Word and PDF so that your classes can benefit from it.
It is from my new book ‘Blue-Sky Thinking’ and it comes with a ‘Teachers’ Guide’ which has the solutions to the grids, fill in the blanks exercises and answers to the riddles. The book is divided into daily and monthly modules so dip in to it and see what treats lie within.
It will take approx. 40 seconds to upload so be patient!
This is the Microsoft Word version, the students’ workbook: BLUE-SKY THINKING
This contains 2 months’ free lesson plans and the solutions: Teachers’ Guide
This is the PDF version of the students’ workbook: BLUE-SKY THINKING
This is the PDF version of the Teachers’ Guide: Teachers’ Guide
I hope you enjoy reading it and there should be something in there for everyone to enjoy. Just click on the book images if you wish further information on the books. It will take you into the Amazon website.
Believe it or not, there IS a formula for great poetry. It can be taught in a fun and dynamic way if approached in the right manner by the teacher. Just look at the documents below either in Microsoft Word or in PDF and you won’t be disappointed.
This post is from my new book ‘Blue-Sky Thinking’ and its accompanying ‘Teachers’ Guide’. Just click on the book image covers for further information on them.
The first document below saying ‘FREE POETRY LESSON PLANS’ is the text in the book that the students will see.
The second document below saying ‘POETRY LESSON PLANS FOR TEACHERS’ gives advice to the teacher on how to approach the module.
Free poetry module for teachers in Microsoft Word: FREE POETRY LESSON PLANS
Free lesson plans relating to the poetry module in Word: POETRY LESSON PLANS FOR TEACHERS
Free poetry module for teachers in PDF: FREE POETRY LESSON PLANS
Free lesson plans relating to the poetry module in PDF: POETRY LESSON PLANS FOR TEACHERS
‘Blue-Sky Thinking’ is a book written with the new JCSA course in Ireland in mind. It is a book designed to help teachers germinate ideas. I hope it will prove beneficial to all English teachers, however, as it encourages the students to think in terms of patterns of English and promotes the creative and critical thinking processes. I hope you enjoy the post.
The full book can be accessed in Microsoft Word by clicking here: BLUE-SKY THINKING
The Teachers’ Guide can be accessed in Microsoft Word here: Teachers’ Guide
The full book can be viewed in PDF by clicking here: BLUE-SKY THINKING
For the teachers’ guide in PDF, click here: Teachers’ Guide
For more information on the books, just click the book cover images and it will take you into the Amazon website.
Teaching the five senses is made easy by opening up the file entitled ‘TEACHING THE FIVE SENSES’ here: TEACHING THE FIVE SENSES
It is a fun way for students to approach the topic. All they need is enthusiasm and a dictionary. You will find that the quality of their writing will improve immeasurably and if you bring in tactile and sensory objects (flowers, a caramel bar, perfume etc.) they will remember the words forever and use them in their essays.
If you can manifest the taste adjectives into something they can eat, they will remember YOU and your classes forever! Open up the PDF to see what foods and treats you can use to make them better writers. You won’t be disappointed.
The grids you shall see are used in both my books, ‘Writing with Stardust’ and ‘Blue-Sky Thinking’. Just click on the book covers below for a sneak peek of them on Amazon.
I hope you enjoy the post.
Describing the four seasons: from the book âWRITING WITH STARDUSTâ
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Describing the four seasons using the five senses is made easy with my book âWriting with Stardustâ. Just click the PDF document in blue writing here: Describing the four seasons
I hope you enjoy the post. Just click on the book images at the end of the post to get more information on them.
Teaching descriptive writing is a craft and in this post I hope to show you how. The PDF document below entitled ‘Teaching descriptive writing’ has a number of grids and exercises for the students to accomplish.
The most important part of descriptive writing teaching is finding the pattern for each different scene. This makes it easy for the student to grasp it and actually engenders creativity. As Ernest Hemingway said: “Prose is architecture, not interior design”. By this he meant that all great writing should have a structure. Nature has a structure. It has colour, sound, sensation, smell and taste (or action/inaction if not). By using the grid system, in this case ‘Describing a beach’, you are showing the students a pattern that will make it easier for them to remember. Because their creativity is rewarded with a points structure, they are also having fun!
There are free lesson plans with this PDF document also. It is from my new book, ‘Blue-Sky Thinking’ and the solutions are from ‘Blue-Sky Thinking: Teachers’ Guide’. I hope you enjoy the post and just click on the blue writing below entitled ‘Teaching Descriptive Writing’ to view it:
TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE WRITING
Just click on any of the book cover images to see them on Amazon.
Teaching animal sounds is made easy by using this one-class lesson plan. It is from the brand-new book on Amazon, ‘Blue-Sky Thinking’ and its accompanying ‘Teachers’ Guide’. Just click on the blue writing below to get into a short PDF file. It will be everything that you need!
Teaching animal sounds blog post
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The sounds of the city and the classroom are in this post for teachers and students to use free. Just click the ‘Sounds of the city’ file and a PDF will flash up. If you are a teacher, it should prove invaluable as a lesson plan. If you are a student, I hope it helps with your homework!
It is an extract from the book ‘Blue-Sky Thinking’, now available on Amazon. Just click any of the book images below for a free peep inside them on Amazon.
Sounds of the city
Best Descriptive Writing Sites 