Starting with a stimulus is an opportunity for developing speaking and listening skills. Discussion and debate helps students to see different perspectives and it gives you the chance to introduce any specific tier three vocabulary you want to teach. A writing prompt offers excitement into your class...
How to Teach Story Writing at Key Stage 1 is a practical manual for teachers, to be used directly in the classroom. The book begins with a series of language games, designed to warm up creativity and strengthen the imagination. This is followed by a series of creative story workshops, ...
When we teach the skill of writing, we will need to show students models of what we are encouraging them to do. ?Reading texts also provide opportunities to study language: vocabulary grammar, punctuation, and the way we construct sentences, paragraphs and texts. Lastly, good reading texts ...
We teach from the point of view that people are by nature creative and that creativity, like DNA, is unique to each individual. We believe that in the right atmosphere and with the right tools anyone can tap into the creative stream that runs through us all. To help you access and devel...
As storytellers, we rarely get to teach people what we believe is the “right” way to live. Instead, we mustshowour values and beliefs, and the main way we do that is through coming of age stories. So begin with the end in mind. What do you think makes for a good life? How sho...
Here’s my view: The historian or lover of history studies the past, collects, analyze, interprets facts, determine cause and effect, and share the significance of the past, in an effort to teach humanity not to make the same mistakes again and to learn how to recreated the achievements ...
As a writer, I need to understand basic grammar and punctuation. I still get things wrong all the time, which is why my dad and wife edit my posts. But for the most part, my writing fundamentals enable me to tell stories and come up with new concepts, such as theWealth Reality Ratio...
we didn’t teach ourselves to read and to think. A degree of modesty emerges. Our sense of who we are – our identity – becomes more expansive, more secure and less rooted in individual feats. And the buffetings of personal inadequacy count for proportionally less in the story of who ...
one Thanksgiving he was passing a football with his brother when his 10 year old cousin asked him to teach her. Through the process of explaining how to throw a spiral and what a pass looks like, he began enjoying the company of his cousin and invited the other kids to join. Soon he...
this prompt is another way to showcase your creativity, but it also gives you the opportunity to reveal what you value. If you love art and history, you could show the Martians Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. If you’re an avid music fan, maybe you want to teach the aliens the iconic ...