Issue 5.2

Activity 2 Resource Pack: Reading comprehension exercise

The Victorians (Exploration and invention): Activity 2. Students answer the questions provided about the text ‘John Rae, Britain’s forgotten explorer’, in order to develop inferential reading, questioning and predictive skills.

18 Dec 2014
24mins

Creative Teaching and Learning

Activity 1 Resource Pack: Reading in roles

The Victorians (Exploration and Invention): Activity 1. The purpose of this activity is to encourage active thinking and reading through close examination of the biographical text ‘John Rae, Britain’s forgotten explorer’, using the reciprocal reading roles: summariser, predictor, clarifier, questioner.

18 Dec 2014
24mins

Creative Teaching and Learning

Project plan: The Victorians (Exploration and invention)

The reign of Queen Victoria was an era of great innovation and discovery, but also great poverty and misery. Jane Jones explores both extremes of life in Victorian Britain through a series of cross curricular classroom activities for use with students in KS2 and 3.

18 Dec 2014
24mins

Creative Teaching and Learning

Virtual Victorians

Discover how the Victorians helped shape our modern world with this compilation of useful websites and online resources to support the study of life in 19th century Britain.

18 Dec 2014
24mins

Creative Teaching and Learning

Using photography in the classroom

Why save the class camera for special school events? Jane Hewitt explores the ways photography can add another dimension to the everyday learning experience – from capturing and sharing positive moments of learning to cross-curricular experimentation with light, colour and sound.

18 Dec 2014
24mins

Creative Teaching and Learning

The essential elements of project-based learning

There’s no universal definition of project-based learning, so how do we know what works best? Alexis Shea kick-starts her series on effective PBL with a look at the building blocks of a successful project and what these mean in practical terms for different types of learners.

18 Dec 2014
24mins

Creative Teaching and Learning

Dramatic ambitions

James Yarker explains what happened when his theatre company, Stan’s Cafe, teamed up with a local primary school to turn the dramatic events of the Cuban Missile Crisis into an all-singing, all-dancing stage spectacular.

18 Dec 2014
24mins

Creative Teaching and Learning

“We’re going on a print hunt!”

Inspiring young children to take an interest in literacy, Sue Lyle leads a class of four-year-olds on a hunt for signs, symbols and writing in the classroom, on the street and in the shops.

18 Dec 2014
24mins

Creative Teaching and Learning

Reading between the lines

Simple comprehension of a text isn’t enough. To be high-level readers, children need to be able to infer meaning that goes beyond what the text explicitly tells them. Roy van den Brink-Budgen explores ways teachers can develop this critical skill.

18 Dec 2014
24mins

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Issue 5.2

Activity 2 Resource Pack: Reading comprehension exercise

Activity 1 Resource Pack: Reading in roles

Project plan: The Victorians (Exploration and invention)

Virtual Victorians

Sponsored article – The trip that will change your life

Using photography in the classroom

The essential elements of project-based learning

Dramatic ambitions

“We’re going on a print hunt!”

Reading between the lines

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