Interesting and fun beginning of the year activity. Powerpoint is visuals for VAK assessment. Lets you get to know your students, and supports them to get to know themselves as learners.

Powerpoint that outlines an activity where one group of children who are the newsroom based reporters first watch a short news item (the Japan earthquake March 2011) then have to retell details to another group (reporters on location) to enable them to 'go live' with a news report. The reported then "go live" and share the new item with the class or in front of their group (lots of fun if you have a microphone for them to speak into - you could even get someone to video). After this activity they go on to write their own news report and publish in Fodey - a newspaper clipping generator.

This is an overview of learning intentions for guided reading from beginning reading through to fluency . They are colour coded to match the colour wheel we use in N.Z but you could change to suit (magenta through to Purple 2 or Levels 1 to 20). They can be adapted to suit and can be used for planning, modelling books and reading displays.

An editable bundle (plus PDF versions) of real life word problem worksheets - from easy to more challenging for students in Year 3 to 4. These worksheets follow the RAWS acronym developed with our class. To tackle a word problem they must RAWs! READ the problem. ASK yourself what the question is asking you to find out. WRITE out the problem using the numbers and operations. SOLVE the problem. Once they solve it, as a treat they can colour in the picture. These have worked really well in class combining strategy, challenge and a bit of fun!

Memoir Writing is a really easy way to engage your students in a program of writing. Two power points support this package. 1. some of the things Good Writers Do! Teaching points include -focusing on one part of an experience - writing a good hook -writing to show and not tell -using your senses -writing about your feelings 2. Writing Picture Prompts and Writing Exemplars This includes picture prompts with 3 pieces of writing to share and discuss with your class. These writing exemplars are included separately and have examples of writing techniques highlighted.

This is designed as an introduction for Year 3 and 4 students to begin unpacking What is a Fraction. It gives clear definitions for 1. What is a fraction? 2. What is a denominator? 3. What is a numerator? Once you have gone through the PowerPoint, then you use the Rub Out Technique. This is a fun, engaging technique to enable the students to learn the definitions off by heart. It is especially good for Non-English speaking students. Instructions on how to do this are given in the PowerPoint and the template can be used to write the sentences once the have been learned off by heart.

Have added this because of a comment on one of other resources. This provides learning intentions, teaching points and resources for junior school teachers. I hope the links work as they are NZ based ( the links are to NZ based Maths resources which are excellent). You could cut and paste the learning intentions and teaching points into your your own planning format.

'What does joy sound like?'Aim was to get students to paint pictures with words plus develop editing/ proofreading skills. Edited powerpoint was done as the first one did not meet 'What I am looking for' (I left out adjectives on purpose as editing and proofreading were sorely lacking) so as a class we edited it. Got some lovely writing which we published as a class poem on the wall.

This is a fun and engaging to get your kids to write! The PowerPoint point includes 5 Quick Write prompts plus a slide explaining the purpose of the activity, the activity itself and who the audience will be. I often write at the same time as my students and they love me sharing my writing with them. By doing this I am modelling as well as participating and it helps build the concept of the classroom as a "community of writers". It's fun...have a go!