Hi! I enjoy designing curriculum for students who want to advance their grade or want to have clearer understanding of a particular topic. A qualified English and Social Science teacher, I have many years experience teaching across Australia and Asia. The rigours of teaching has meant less time for teachers preparing valuable lessons. Therefore, any aid to address this is welcome. The great feature of my material is that it has been test driven in the classroom.
Hi! I enjoy designing curriculum for students who want to advance their grade or want to have clearer understanding of a particular topic. A qualified English and Social Science teacher, I have many years experience teaching across Australia and Asia. The rigours of teaching has meant less time for teachers preparing valuable lessons. Therefore, any aid to address this is welcome. The great feature of my material is that it has been test driven in the classroom.
This is an opportunity for a teacher to hone the skills of their students in figurative language.
How the student improves their skills is by
observing models of matching phrases with their meanings
matching phrases with meanings to affirm understanding
A 37 page comprehensive guide for supporting students in learning English. Also, it is a ready reference for teachers.
A major benefit for students is the self assessment sections and activities of the guide to affirm understanding.
What does this resource offer:
ways to improve grammar and punctuation in writing
vocabulary guide for better writing
Grammar features include: parts of the sentence, writing better sentences, sentence types, tips for writing correct sentences, paragraphing, hook and topic sentences, supporting sentences, conclusion sentences, and types of tenses.
Punctuaton features include: apostrophe, comma and full stop use.
Vocabulary features include :root words, prefixes and suffixes, helpful vocabulary lists and homonyms
This resource is a story with a vocabulary check after the story. An ideal lesson for ESL teaching in Asia, it can also be used for other curriculums to teach students about figurative language, focusing on similes, metaphors and idioms. The majority of language is idiomatic. The expressions are underlined for students to identify the different forms of figurative language and complete the vocabulary check after the end of the story. Another great benefit is that teachers can use it as a comprehension passage for students to complete relevant questions.
Therefore, what this resource offers:
An insight to the use of figurative language in a text.
Clarify the meaning of numerous idioms which Asian students often find confusing
An affirmation of learning by completing a vocabulary exercise at the end of the document.
A comprehensive passage
An interesting Asian backdrop to a humorous story.
A valuable resource for teachers wanting to develop vocabulary with their students in a lesson or over two lessons depending on the standard of students. A mixture of worksheets comprising
two challenge matching activities and writing of sentences to affirm
understanding
Fill in the word activities to select the correct option for clearer meaning to a sentence.
This is the ideal resource for a higher primary school or lower secondary teacher to use as an icebreaker for classes or as a theme for English classes.
Benefits for the students include:
A fitting way to start a lesson.
Creates a conducive environment for students’ learning
Provides the opportunity for non readers to enjoy reading.
Provides a platform for learning a light hearted genre of English.
Can be used to provide relief from a series of intensive learning activities.
Writing narratives is difficult for many students. A hurdle for students is how to identify the essential elements of any story and how to structure it. The next part in narrative writing is how to use language effectively. This PPT covers the structure and language components in narrative writing that should be completed as a series of lessons. The following elements are covered:
Understanding of the three essential elements of a narratrive: Conflict, Change or resolution and Descriptive Writing.
How to break down the components of a story through the plot mountain organiser graph
Become familiar with the concepts of horizontal and vertical time to make their descriptive writing more effective.
How to complete effective story starts by examining a multitude of story starts.
Use show not tell style to improve your writing
The use of sensory language to upgrade your standard
As you know most students struggle with persuasive writing, the argumentative essay being one of the hardest for them to complete successfully.
This insight to argumentative writing is so helpful for students.
An 18 slide PPT and a supplementary guide help the student in the following ways:
Outlines the structure of any style of argumentative essay: Introduction, Body and Conclusion
Demonstrates ways to introduce the topic with opening sentence, thesis and preview of arguments
Shows how the body paragraphs are structured, each starting with a topic sentence, development of points and clinching statement.
Demonstrates ways to conclude an essay with the emphasis on not including extra arguments. Simply, summing up with a restatement of arguments and outcomes which may have a call to action.
A precis of the two different types of argumentative writing-one sided and two sided.
Type of language used to connect ideas.
A model of a one sided argument done in a counterpoint way.
This is the ultimate vocabulary activity for the high calibre student who wants to improve his/ her vocabulary. What a student receives is::
a number of rich words that need to be matched with their meaning.
two activities that involve matching
flexible learning where the student can convert these new words into sentences
compendium of vocabulary words
This is a challenging vocabulary activity for senior students.
Students are introduced to high calibre words that would not be commonly used in writing pieces.
This activity helps the student:
In identifying new words to provide sophistication to their writing
Broadens their vocabulary immensely
A three in one bundle of three activities on vocabulary.This is a challenging vocabulary activity for senior students.
Students are introduced to high calibre words that would not be commonly used in writing pieces.
This activity helps the student:
In identifying new words to provide sophistication to their writing
Broadens their vocabulary immensely
This is a fine revision lesson for the Primary School teacher who wants to challenge students on grammar, punctuation and vocabulary.
The student learns:
to improve their grammar
to punctuate better
to broaden their vocabulary range
identify figurative language devices
Students need guidance on how to write different genres. A most helpful strategy is to provide scaffolding.
In this resource teachers are helped by the provision of scaffolding for Narrative and Argumentative Writing.
How the teacher is helped is through:
Time saving as no need to design a scaffold
A supportive framework for student learning to plan an essay
A foundation for structuring an essay
Appreciation of different formats for writing different genres.
Ideal resource for the teacher preparing students for exams or a ready guide for students writing a narrative as an assignment or class task.
How students benefit even more is:
Saves time for students writing a narrative as they have a quick guide.
Provides a sound structure for writing a narrative.
Provides a ready reference for students who are inundated with other genres to understand.
Helps the new student unfamiliar with this genre to write more effectively.
This is a formidable package for analysing poetry using poetic devices. How do you benefit as a teacher using this package?
• Saving time preparing lessons as the unit covers at least three (3) lessons.
• The explanation of poetry is easy for students to understand as it is concise.
• Valuable tools for analysing poetry.
• Important poetic devices that students can grasp.
• A litany of examples to explain poetic devices.
• Formidable questions to entrench learning of poetic devices
• Satisfaction that the students have sufficient information to analyse poems effectively.
This is a formidable lesson for analysing poetry using poetic devices. How do you benefit as a teacher using this package?
• Saving time preparing lessons as this is at least one lesson.
• The explanation of poetry is easy for students to understand as it is concise.
• Valuable tools for analysing poetry.
• Important poetic devices that students can grasp.
• A number of exercises to explain poetic devices.
• A wordsearch to entrench the learning of poetic devices
• Satisfaction that the students have sufficient information to analyse poems effectively.
In this package the teacher benefits from a comprehensive arsenal of narrative writing tools to help teach narrative writing more effectively. It is not a simple checklist that aids the teaching of the genre but is a ready reference to create effective writers in his or her class. In addition to entrench these concepts, students are given a host of exercises ranging from story starts to techniques like Show and Tell.
What is the breakdown on this package?
• A 14 slide PPT jam packed with features of and techniques for narrative writing
• Students are provided with story starter types and complete exercises on them.
• Students are taught to create descriptive settings.
• Students are taught to develop characters better.
• Students are taught to use stronger nouns and verbs in their writing through exercises.
• Students are taught to use sensory words for better descriptions of scenes and characters in the story through a number of exercises.
• Students are taught to understand conflict in a story better with a number of exercises.
• Students are given ideas to embellish concepts of character development in a story.
• Students are given ideas to pace the story better.
• Students are shown how to vary the length of sentences to create tension and captivate reader. These ideas are affirmed through a number of sentence restructures.
• Students are given tips on ending stories better and supported with exercises to affirm the resolution of a problem.
The Ideal resource for the busy teacher. If you are teaching a unit on film analysis this 30 slides PPT gives your students a major insight to the ways films are produced. In addition students learn how films really tell stories.
From the intense close-up that shows every tear, to the suspenseful low-angle shot that makes a villain tower with power — filmic devices are the hidden tools directors use to shape meaning, emotion, and action.
Why Learn Filmic Devices?
• Decode the secrets behind your favourite scenes
• Boost your media analysis essays with sharp, specific vocabulary
• Understand how lighting, camera angles, editing, and sound shape what we feel and think
What the student explores:
• Cinematography: camera angles, shot types, and movement
• Sound Design: music, sound effects, silence, dialogue
• Editing Techniques: cuts, transitions, pacing
• Visual Effects: Lighting effects and CGI(computer generated images)
• Mise-en-scène: costumes, sets, lighting, and placement
• Symbolism and Mood: how visual choices tell deeper stories
Expecting your student to understand inferences in comprehension passages or reading from a novel is a fallacy. What this lesson plan offers is a:
Support to the learning of inference questions
Comprehensive exercises to support understanding of inference questions
Explanations of intended meanings