douglas noack

DDND are a series of starter activities for your sts to do as soon as they walk in the room. While you are getting organised and dealing with latecomers, your sts are practicing basic Japanese skills.

Douggie's Do Now Drills have a varied range of 40 lesson starter tasks. There are script writing practice drills, comprehension drills, puzzles and basic writing drills. On top of the educational value of the drills, perhaps more importantly they give you 5 minutes of quiet in which to set up your equipment, do the roll, deal with students missing pens or arriving late, and of course prepare to start your lesson! The Drills can also be supplemented with a Powerpoint resource for showing solution

The first book in a series of starter activities for Japanese classes, this book focuses strongly on script writing practice. While you do your start of class chores, your students will be practicing writing kana and kanji in the correct stroke order. As each book progresses, the starter exercises become more varied. Settle your class with some meditative writing practice, then launch into your lesson.

To help students focus, display the starter activity that you are using on the whiteboard. When you are ready, go to the next slide to explain the solutions and have the students self or partner correct their answers. The animated solution slides enable you to explain each answer with clarity and focus.

This solutions powerpoint for DDND Year Seven Term 1 mainly contains color versions of the script practice sheets, which when displayed on the whiteboard makes it easier for students to follow stroke order correctly.

Douggie's Do No Drills are lesson starter exercises that will enable you to make a smooth and productive start to your lesson. Exercises are designed to be simultaneously accessible and challenging for your students. Have your students get focused for your lesson while you get set up, take the roll, hand out pencils to those who forgot theirs, then take the roll again for the latecomers who walked in after you submitted your roll the first time.