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Interactive Whiteboard Resources: Literacy, Key Stage 4 - Topmarks Education - 1 views

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shared by Rachael Webster on 12 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Literacy - Key Stage 4 (15-16 year olds)
    • Max Applegate
      Max Applegate on 12 Oct 11
       
      This resource is for middle school to high school classroom teachers and gives lesson plan ideas on Shakespeare. With the three choices of resources dealing with three of the Bard's most famous works, using an IWB seems like a natural fit. Even though Topmarks is British, the ideas behind literacy-technology interactivity remain fresh. This resource gives detailed ideas that incorporate IWB and literary exploration. Topmarks' section on Shakespeare allows teachers to closely study Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and The Tempest. This is useful to me because of the topics covered; Shakespeare can be boring to some students. These lesson plan ideas allow me to reinvent Shakespeare's works on an IWB so that students may interact and rethink their own ideas on classic literature.
    • Susannah Azzaro
      Susannah Azzaro on 12 Oct 11
       
      Nice summary. Sounds like a great resource for you!
  • A lesson which considers Shakespeare's representation of the island in 'The Tempest' through characters' visions of their environment. It provides students with artists' impressions of the island and focuses on language used in relation to the island.
    • Max Applegate
      Max Applegate on 12 Oct 11
       
      This specific lesson on 'The Tempest' seems so interesting because of the graphical nature of the plan. Seeing things on the (IW)board as opposed to simply thinking about it may just be that final push that students need to connect.
    • Susannah Azzaro
      Susannah Azzaro on 12 Oct 11
       
      Awesome find, Max!
  • Rachael Webster on 16 Oct 11
     
    This resource has a number of whiteboard activities for different areas of study. I focused on the English (Literacy) section. It seems somewhat limited in some respects, as it only has a few activities for certain books/plays, but the ones that were there were pretty cool. I really liked the Romeo and Juliet activities. I thought the intro scale about love at first sight would be a great way to get kids hooked, and the activities in which the kids put the things that happened in order were good as well. I liked some of the middle grades activities more. There was one in which you have to look at different newspapers coverage of the same event and make a Venn diagram of how the stories overlap. I think this really makes learning more interactive and meaningful to the students and utilizes the technology well.
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Writing with Writers |Scholastic.com - 0 views

teacher.scholastic.com/...index.htm writing literacy English Education classroom plans
shared by Loren Kurpiewski on 13 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Loren Kurpiewski on 13 Oct 11
     
    I think this is a fantastic resource for English teachers because it connects students with actual authors through author-planned workshops, which serves as a motivational tool and keeps the class interesting. Also, it provides teaching plans that comply with national standards and student activities based around each type of writing. These workshops would be perfect for display on an IWB because of the IWB's interactivity.
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