This graphic organiser, ‘Connotation Conundrum’ helps students to find and define new words that have connotative meanings, simultaneously improving their reading vocabulary and increasing their ability to interpret the text.
This graphic organiser, ‘Connotation Conundrum for Harry Potter’ asks students to use the roots, etymological history, and denotative definitions to better understand the connotations embedded in character names in the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling.
Bill has 30 butterflies in the garden shown in this learning activity, ‘Flitting with Fractions’. Students have to use fractions to solve problems when Bill and his friends catch the butterflies. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This graphic organiser, ‘Genre Grid’ enables students to categorise seemingly unrelated and isolated pieces of information to build a wider conceptual framework of ideas about literature.
This graphic organiser, ‘Genre Grid for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ helps students to identify the literary genre to which The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis belongs.