Jacqui Sharp Resources

Use the graphics, character labels and the 7 steps to narrative writing to motivate students to write Spring Animal stories. Print out the blackline masters for students to publish their writing. Teachers can use these for modelling narrative writing, by sticking magnetic tape on the back of labels to use on magnetic whiteboards. Add the Spring Animal storybox to a Writing (Literacy) center for independent students to plan, write and publish their Spring Animals stories This Storybox contains

This pack consists of an Inquiry approach to the study of minibeasts. It is designed so that students can work on it independently or collaboratively with others. Students are scaffolded and guided through an Inquiry Process which focusses on them developing a research question based on what they have found out so far, finding the information and then synthesizing it to develop new knowledge. Through a variety of websites, videos and Graphic Organizers students are able to find new knowledge and

Use the graphics, picture labels and the 4 steps to writing a haiku to motivate students to write Easter haikus. Print out the blackline masters for students to publish their writing. Teachers can use the labels as motivation for writing haikus, by sticking magnetic tape on the back of labels to use on magnetic whiteboards. Add the Easter storybox to a Writing (Literacy) center for independent students to plan, write and publish their Easter Haikus. Use the teaching PowerPoint ‘Writing a Haik

Print out, cut up and laminate the pages from this PowerPoint. Put in a bag with some pointers and whiteboard marker pens. Students choose a card, pointer and a pen and walk around the room finding the blend that is on their card. Students write down all the blends they can find that match with that card.

Here is a set of graphs made in PowerPoint that teachers can use to model with when they are teaching graphing to Juniors. This set includes Tally ChartsPictographsBar ChartsThese can be edited to add less or more columns for information. More able students could use them on Chromebooks. There are some helpful hints and movies to help teachers when they customise these graphs for their teaching and learning in classroom. Each graph has a section where students have to analyse the data they have

This is an interactive PowerPoint where students can manipulate the Tangram pieces using the keyboard, mouse (trackpad) and tools available in PowerPoint. They will practise geometry skills by 'rotating', flipping and translating. They can color their assembled tangrams using the Fill color button. This PowerPoint can also be opened in Keynote on the iPad and students can use the available tools and their fingers to manipulate the shapes. After this PowerPoint is downloaded, please save a copy a

This pack contains 8 reading activities that have been created in Word. Students can complete them on computers or alternatively they can be printed out and students can write on them. They are suitable for readings ages of 7 and above. Activities include 'The Alphabet Key', 'The 5 Ws', 'Character Relationships', 'Write a letter or an email to a character', 'Wanted Poster', 'Story Cube', 'Character Collage', and 'Trading Cards'.

This pack contains 11 reading activities that have been created in Word. Students can complete them on computers or alternatively they can be printed out and students can write on them. They can also be opened in Pages on iPads. They are suitable for readings ages of 8 and above. Activities include Analyse the storyline Describe this Character Chapter Title Assignment Development of Plot Story Development Development of a Story Excitement Chart Timeline Similarities and Differences What does it

This pack contains 10 reading activities that have been created in Word. Students can complete them on computers or alternatively they can be printed out and students can write on them. They can also be opened in Pages on iPads. They are suitable for readings ages of 8 and above. Activities include Sequence of Events Character Description Meanings Interview Questions The Question Key The Prediction Wheel Expanded Question Concept Layer Map Narrative Writing Framework Big Wide Questions Pre-Char

This resource takes students through designing a Dust Jacket cover for a book. Teachers can take students through the different slides teaching to the criteria listed on the student writing slides. Students will learn how to identify all the parts of a dust jacket.write a summary about a book with details about the characters, setting and plot.create illustrations that give a sense of what the book is about.find out information about the author and write a short biography.search for Social Media

Students can make a series of Trading cards that they can print out and laminate and then trade with other students. Some ideas for Trading cards are Characters from a book: Students will need to have a name, picture and brief description of character on the front of the trading card and on the back they provide more details about the characterTimeline: This could be a historical timeline or a timeline of a person or character from a book. Students provide the date, picture and name of the event