Overview: Add a touch of humor and creativity to your classroom with our Funny English Poster Set! This set features 10 unique and witty poster designs that bring the quirks of the English language to life. Each poster is available in both a light and dark color scheme, giving you a total of 20 posters to choose from to suit your classroom’s style. What’s Included: 10 unique, funny English poster designs 20 posters total: 10 with light color schemes, 10 with dark color schemes High-resolution PDF files for easy printing Why You’ll Love It: Versatile Design: Choose from light or dark color schemes to match your classroom decor. Eye-Catching and Humorous: Keep students interested with clever wordplay and humorous takes on the English language. Perfect for Any English Classroom: Ideal for bulletin boards, wall displays, or even as conversation starters. These posters are a great way to infuse some fun into your learning environment while showcasing the humorous side of English. Looking for more awesome posters? Check out: ➡️ Funny Grammar Posters ➡️ Funny Punctuation Posters Effortless Fun is brought to you by educators Doug and Lina. If you like our resources, please consider following us to support our growth! Follow us here ➡️ https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Effortless-Fun
Sometimes we all do weird things that make us unique and fun. Some of these unusual habits relate to our hobbies.
Writing commentary is undoubtedly the most difficult part of writing any essay. All other parts of the essay are more formulaic in nature. But when it comes to commenting on evidence, there is no formula. This blog post explores strategies for teaching students how to write commentary for the liter
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I use improv games all the time in the classroom, mostly because I don’t like to actually write detailed lesson plans. But also for content review!
Are you thinking about teaching Australian Government in your classroom? Did you know these facts about the Australian political system and Australian political history?
Here are 20 humorous and lighthearted memes that have swept across teaching social media sites that accurately depict or describe the realities of teaching.
This is a comic series about all those weird things we readers do. Script by The Wild Detectives Illustrations by (the impeccable) Laura Pacheco October '16
Download This Worksheet (PDF) Interesting character quirks are responsible for some of the most memorable characters in fiction, but I think new writers sometimes forget that a quirk doesn’t make a character. It’s a good place to start though! The first page of this worksheet gives you some questions to develop character from quirk. If your…
Reading Quirks is a new, funny and insightful webcomic every book lover can relate to.
Beautiful and creative inspiring art rooms. These art teachers have gone all out decorating their art rooms. Super-creative!
In the past five years, I've tried everything a variety of methods to meet the grammar needs of that year's class of students. Let me save you the trouble of finding some things out the hard way... as well as some ideas that are just plain cool. Here's the problem: Teachers of English are put into a tricky set of dilemmas every school year: How do find "enough" time for students to master, or at least improve, in different grammar topics? How do we engage students in a topic that they find boring and/or difficult? How do we choose which topics we do (or do not) teach? How do I cope when my students either didn't master OR didn't maintain grammar fundamentals from previous years? How do I reconcile my own beliefs, opinions, and/or background knowledge with the task in front of me? On one hand, there's no one right answer. We have to adjust our grammar instruction from year to year to meet the needs of the classes we just inherited. However - and I may ruffle feathers here - as long as there is standardized testing in our schools, we cannot blow off grammar. Period. Even if we don't want to uphold the most traditional norms of Standard English and wish to be more linguistically progressive, it's a disservice to not equip students to be competitive in the worlds, like test-taking, that are not optional at this time. SO, how can teachers survive and thrive in this subsection of ELA? Here are some tips to think about as you plan your school year of instruction! 1. Find and give a grade-level pretest Make or find a pretest to see what students know, but don't feel pressure to make it include all grammar for the year; it's fine to pretest just the topics you think you'll cover that quarter or term. Then you'll know more confidently what you do (or don't!) need to teach. Even better? Give a pretest in the format of the next standardized test they'll take. I've been known to scan and print a page of the ACT's English section from a test prep book and give it to 8th graders. Here's a sample grammar diagnostic test that uses song lyrics to keep things from getting boring: 2. Prove why students should care I love using part or all of my "Why Grammar?" mini-unit, because it lets students read why grammar and editing matter (from people OTHER than me), and motivates them to care more. I'd rather have them hear it from more authentic sources than just take my word for it! If you don't have enough time for the whole mini-unit, you might like part or all of my Word Crimes lesson, made to go with the music video! 3. Give quizzes that grade themselves Check out all of the tech options you have in your building and see if any come with the ability to create self-grading quizzes or polls. My team uses Edmodo, so we can create self-grading quizzes as little formative checkpoints. (Backup plan? Use Google Forms!) 4. Teach it in a GAME Learn more about how I teach grammar in a GAME BOARD format by either reading this blog post or viewing my full grammar bundle here! 5. Narrow your rubric You don't have to grade EVERY piece of writing for grammar, but even when you do, there's no rule that says you have to point out EVERY mistake they make (at least all the time). It's fine to make a rubric in which you JUST grade commas, or JUST spelling/homophones. Your shortened grading time per paper will thank you! 6. Put students in the role of teacher (& artist!) We learn by doing and teaching, right? Push students to deeper levels of thinking with two cool projects My grammar video project, in which students become teachers and make (creative) instructional videos, and My grammar poetry assignment, in which students write about their grammar topics (including personifying them!) 7. Take requests! Every once in a while, why not take student requests on which mini-lessons you should do next? It will up their engagement as well as make them take some ownership and curiosity of a sometimes-dry topic. 8. Students make their own learning goals The ultimate low-stress differentiation is to let students self-assess, identify their own problem areas, make plans to fix them, and then accomplish those plans. Show visible growth from each student with my Grammar & Proofreading Project. 9. Reward error-finding Students catch a grammar error on a store sign? Found a typo in a published book? Caught a business in a sloppy mistake on an ad? Find a way to reward them for their finds - it can be a point, a piece of candy, or just public praise. 10. Write original sentences ASAP Don't just give all the mentor sentences away; make students copy real sentences from others AND also write their own original ones! They need to practice recognizing errors AND drafting correctly the first time. If you need help, here are 10 activities to write grammar rules in context. 11. Use videos wisely Even if you don't have student-made videos (see #6), I highly recommend giving students EITHER videos you find online, or recordings of you explaining a grammar topic. I "flip" most of my grammar instruction with homemade videos; I make PowerPoints explaining a topic and then use screencastomatic.com to record myself narrating over those slides and teaching. There are serious advantages to having grammar instruction in video format. It helps absent students, not to mention any student (IEP or not) who needs to hear something multiple times before it "sticks". 12. FREEBIE: Find it in the texts you're reading! I've seen elaborate mini-lessons analyzing the grammar used in a specific text, and while those are fine, sometimes it's enough to just: Make brief mentions while doing a close reading ("Did y'all see that semicolon that Dickens just used, btw?") Collecting correct sentences from texts! Use my FREE Grammar in Literature activity sheets if you need a starting point! The bottom line Any grammar instruction is better than none, and you have the professional skills and judgment to help your students in the best way that you can. If you don't give up, and if you model that grammar is important, then your teens and tweens will be better for it! Did one of these resonate with you? Tell me in the comments!
DIY Dry Erase Pockets – Learn how to create cute, colorful and durable dry erase pockets for less than 20 cents each! You’ll love this easy to follow tutorial and your students will love using dry erase markers in class. Save your classroom budget and save time at the copier. This is a great teacher hack!
STAT explores the quirks of the human body in our video series, Boddities. We chase down answers to your questions: Why do you see spots when you look at
Many languages have definite and indefinite articles and some languages use these words differently to the way they are used in English. As such, these can actually be pretty confusing for English learners. People from some countries - like those Russian-speaking places - tend to struggle with this because
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Sleep. Memory. Pleasure. Fear. Language. We experience these things every day, but how do our brains create them? Your Brain, Explained is a personal tour around your gray matter. Neuroscientist Marc Dingman gives you a crash course in how your brain works and explains the latest research on the brain functions that affect you on a daily basis. You'll also discover what happens when the brain doesn't work the way it should, causing problems such as insomnia, ADHD, depression, or addiction. You'll learn how neuroscience is working to fix these problems, and how you can build up your defenses against the most common faults of the mind. Along the way you'll find out: · Why brain training games don't prevent dementia · What it's like to remember every day of your life as if it were yesterday · Which popular psychiatric drug was created from German rocket fuel · How you might unknowingly be sabotaging your sleep Drawing on the author's popular YouTube series, 2-minute Neuroscience, this is a friendly, engaging introduction to the human brain and its quirks from the perspective of a neuroscientist--using real-life examples and the author's own eye-opening illustrations. Your brain is yours to discover!
This is a comic series about all those weird things we readers do. Script by The Wild Detectives Illustrations by (the fabulous) Laura Pacheco September '17
Teachers are virtually never taught how learners make decisions about studying, concentration and participation, and are not able to find this in educational literature. The Behavioural Learning Classroom breaks new ground, allowing teachers to harness their students' traits and quirks to produce a more effective and compassionate classroom. Important lessons from behavioural science Optimising lesson design Effective (home)work Marking and feedback Rewards and sanctions The physical environment of the classroom Pupil behaviour Designing behavioural experiments and analysing data Supported by fundamental findings in behavioural science, this book provides practical, accessible, tried and tested techniques to improve the mental wellbeing of pupils and teachers alike. It is an enjoyable and accessible read for any teacher or school leader who wants to enhance their pupils' experience of learning.
Explore the 5 senses this holiday season with Santa's Christmas science labs featuring the smells, sights, sounds, and more or Christmas.
Are you looking for a way teaching math vocabulary in a more visual and conceptual way? To differentiate for your struggling learners? Every year, it seems we get more and more visual learners coming into our classrooms, learners who benefit from math word walls that show concepts and vocabulary in action. This approach has worked wonders in my classroom and I know it will in yours! Adding a visual math word wall to my classroom completely changed how my students access our math vocabulary and the concepts we learn in class. Our math word walls are covered in examples and visuals that show the math concepts in context along with the vocabulary words we cover in class.
Uncover fascinating insights into the world of wombats! This article explores these unique creatures' quirks and characteristics, from their cube-shaped poop to their solitary lifestyle. We'll explore their importance to Indigenous Australians and examine why the hairy-nosed wombat is critically endangered. Join us on this wonderful exploration of wombat facts!
When creating resources for your classroom, you might want to have handouts that are portrait and ones that are landscape. Today I’ll show you how you can accomplish that. Before I start the tutorial, I do have to post a slight “disclaimer” on this post! PowerPoint itself does not allow you to […]
I never really used anchor charts and if I did they were just plain old boring. I never realized they were boring until I discovered pinterest. I thought "Man, my anchor charts are blaaah, compared to these!" So the creative person in me said "Move over sista, it's time for the real star to shine!" HAHAHA I really don't think THAT highly of myself, maybe just a little. This year our school mandated that we have anchor charts displayed in our classroom AND it needed to be student interacted. Today I introduced use your schema to make connections strategy from CAFE. I pre-made this anchor chart before introducing it to the class. I then introduced each connection one by one using several examples and filling in the pre-made anchor chart. This was our end result. I made a worksheet so students can make connections when they read to self. Click on the picture to grab yours for free. I really love how COLOR makes a huge difference and how it catches the students attention. Here is another example of an anchor chart I made during math instruction. I place the anchor charts on the wall so that students can refer back to them during the week. Once we move on to a new content I switch out the old ones to new anchor charts. Here are pictures of our Science and Math walls. Laters, Mrs. Concepcion
Sometimes we all do weird things that make us unique and fun. Some of these unusual habits relate to our hobbies.
This is a comic series about all those weird things we readers do. Script by The Wild Detectives Illustrations by (the uber-talented) Laura Pacheco February '17
This is one of the many ways I teach print concepts in my Pre-K classroom. I use these charts to teach left-to-right progression of print, as well as
Cut and paste items are incredibly popular with students… and this tutorial reminds me that I really need to incorporate them into my lesson plans more! This tutorial has a lot of steps, but it’s actually really quick to do! Enjoy!
Artist Andy Warhol was an interesting individual and his works reflect his personal quirks! Learn more about him with some fun Warhol projects for kids.
Thousands of teachers have used these tried and true GUARANTEED tups to stop students from blurting out. Chatty Class? YOU NEED TO READ THIS!
We had so much fun with our exploding sidewalk chalk that we decided to make more, this time with a Halloween twist.
We know gifted students are far more complex than their test scores might suggest. And while we might expect certain quirks, others blindside us: a strange reaction to sound, a sudden outburst of tears, or a need to stand up at inopportune times. Dabrowski's five overexcitabilities provide some insight into these unexpected moments.
These are my must have Amazon finds for your classroom this year! Grab a few of these and save your time and your sanity!
