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I'm Mike Jackson, a former primary headteacher. I've teamed up with a fellow retiree David Horner who was a freelance children's poet delivering poetry workshops to children and teachers in schools across this country and abroad.
Between us, we bring an extensive wealth of knowledge and experience to the task of creating quality resources.
Welcome to Goodeyedeers - the home of quality resources for primary teachers. Visit us and check out some great ideas.
I'm Mike Jackson, a former primary headteacher. I've teamed up with a fellow retiree David Horner who was a freelance children's poet delivering poetry workshops to children and teachers in schools across this country and abroad.
Between us, we bring an extensive wealth of knowledge and experience to the task of creating quality resources.
-UPDATED 2020-
Aimed at children in Years 5, 6 and 7.
This popular PowerPoint lesson takes the children through the first verse of the poem âJabberwockyâ by Lewis Carroll and gives them a strategy for turning this nonsensical poem into one that makes sense - almost!
The children have practice in recognising nouns, adjectives and verbs and in using the dictionary to find suitable replacement words.
The Teachersâ Notes gives background information to the creation of the poem and in particular, Lewis Carrollâs use of âportmanteau wordsâ. They also have a number of suggestions for further activities.
There is a document with the text of the poem plus another where Humpty Dumpty explains the first verse of the poem to Alice. According to him, he can - â⊠explain all the poems that ever were invented - and a good many that havenât been invented just yet.â
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All the money raised from the sale of this resource goes to a local charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
â24 Lines Make A Dayâ is a poem based on the 24 hours of a day. It is performed by the poet - David Horner.
Suitable for Years 3, 4 and possibly 5.
The resources include:
A short, animated film for the children to watch and listen to David reading the poem.
Teachersâ Notes which give you
a) activities to do with the children based around the poem â24 Lines Make A Dayâ
b) ideas for creating fresh poems linked to the ideas used to create the poem.
c) suggestions for further activities
The text of the poem â24 Lines Make A Dayâ.
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All the money raised from the sale of this resource goes to a local charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.
This lesson is designed to enable children to deconstruct some common tongue twisters and create new ones of their own.
Suitable for all years across Key Stage 2.
The PowerPoint takes the children through, step by step, the whole process of deconstructing a tongue twister and then reconstructing it to make it their own.
The Tongue Twisters doc. file is a list of 20 tongue twisters for them to work on.
The Teacher's Notes gives you some interesting facts about tongue twisters to share with your class as well as ideas as to what the children might do with the ones they create.
If you enjoy this resource from Goodeyedeers then please tell your colleagues and maybe leave us a review. Many thanks.
All the money raised from the sale of this resource goes to a local charity for children called MedEquip4Kids.