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This title provides secondary school teachers with a wide range of highly creative suggestions for classroom starters and plenaries. Starters and plenaries are now established elements of all good lesson planning. A good starter gets a class engaged right from the word go, challenges and motivates students and sets a positive tone for the rest of the lesson. A good plenary allows students to focus on the key objectives of the lesson, and reflect on the progress they have made. These five minute slots at the beginning and end of lessons are an opportunity to be extremely creative and draw on a range of different ideas and sources. However, keeping them fresh engaging and challenging can be difficult, lesson after lesson. This book will provide teachers with a wide range of suggestions: from individual to whole class activities, from the energetic to the sedate, and from technical ideas that involve some planning to those which can be used straight out of the book. Most importantly, the structure of each activity would be the focus, allowing the teacher to include content relevant to their lesson. In this way the teacher can dip into the book when they are in search of a new idea and adapt the activity to suit their topic or group.
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Kate Brown is a humanities teacher at an international school, and consultant on educational resources.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There are some handy ideas to use in lessons in this book. However, I would say that you are probably already aware of most of them and can get a lot of these ideas for free via places like the TES website. There are seven sections: In Your Own Words (Or Pictures), Questioning, Key Words, Game Show, Figure It Out, Physical, and Reflect on Your Learning. All of these sections are important elements of quality creative lessons, but some of the ideas can be quite obvious e.g. a page about anagrams under the key words section. There are a couple of interesting ideas in here to get you thinking, but nothing revolutionary or unique.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is one of the most useful books I have found so far for dipping into when you've run out of ideas for an interesting activity. Because the focus is on the structure of the tasks instead of the content the tasks can be applied to any kind of lesson. There are lots of different types of activity and they are separated into sections so that it's easy to find what you're looking for. I teach English and not every task is suited to every topic but the majority are and can be adapted to suit. Very glad I bought this.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What a fantastic book to help inject a bit of extra enthusiasm and new creativity into lessons, not to mention some useful AfL. I would highly recommend this to anyone who wants some fresh ideas. With explanations and examples in context across many different subjects, there is something for everyone.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Wrong phase
I am a primary school teacher - this book gives exclusively secondary school examples and ideas. I feel this wasn't very clear in the Information so was dissatisfied. Read more
Published 25 days ago by Pen Name
Brilliant Starting Point!
This has been a wonderful book, it is a source of inspiration for anyone starting out in teaching, be they PGCE students or GTP trainees. Read more
Published 4 months ago by GTP English
Starters & plenaries
Great book with some fantastic ideas in it for groups and needs of all ages, breaks up the lesson making it more manageable was delivered quickly to.
Published 4 months ago by AmyJane
Not for primary teaching
Had a quick flick through this book and it looks like it has some good ideas but only for key stages 3 & 4.
Published 12 months ago by Love a Good Drama
Great for providing simple ideas
Great for providing simple and cross- curricular ideas for starters and plenaries- essential for every lesson! when you are stuck for ideas, this is an excellent book to turn to.
Published 18 months ago by Teacher Kate
Easy to read and apply
This is a very easy to read book with lots of ideas. Some of the ideas could be extended to make a longer activity for revision as some bits could be quite time consuming for just... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Grace
Outstanding!
This is a really useful little book. It has a good mix of simple starters/plenaries which don't require much planning prior to the lesson to those which are a little more... Read more
Published on 17 April 2010 by S. Clarke
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