Description
Content Packs contain ready-made lesson activities that include
comprehensive teaching notes with objectives, questioning strategies,
and ideas for additional, related activities. These resources have
been developed by or in consultation with teaching experts and are
suitable for a range of learning styles. They are highly visual, very
interactive, easy to modify... and most of all fun to teach with.
Teacher's Notes
The lessons have been written to enable teachers to deliver effective student learning. Each lesson has comprehensive supporting teachers’ notes including lesson aims, lesson overview, preparation, suggestions for questioning strategies, summary and review ideas, as well as suggestions to extend the lesson.
Rhyming Patterns
This kindergarten lesson uses the RM Easiteach Speak Text feature to investigate the rhyming patterns in the word endings. Students then go on to spot the rhyming patterns in simple words, then they use Word Builder cards to make new words with the same endings.
Poems
This 7th Grade lesson uses the RM Easiteach Split Screen feature with a Writing Frame to consider the tone, form and figurative language used in both poems. They then compare and contrast the different styles. Students are then challenged to write their own poems based on the work they have done in the lesson.
Writing Frames
Writing frames are used to give a supporting structure to the emerging writer. There are 50 writing frames in all covering nonfiction topics, for example, compare, contrast, explanation, report about a living thing, watching a video, as well as fiction examples, plot study, retelling a story, and writing a review.
Text Resources
The text resource bank contains examples of nonfiction, fiction, poetry and plays. In this poetry example, students can use the Highlight Word feature in the English Language Arts Toolbar to compare the two different rhyming patterns. Teachers can use the How to Make a Milkshake book to show students the format of an information book, look at the contents and index pages, and explain how a picture can replace a thousand words. The play texts can be used by teachers either as scripts to perform the plays or as examples of how a play text is formatted differently to the text in a book.
Spelling
There are different lists for US and Canadian spellings. These are organized into phonemes, clusters and vowels. They can either be used for the students to copy down the words or the teacher can print the lists and hand them out.
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