List and Funnel! A strategy to teach how aspects of texts WORK TOGETHER!
Teach students how aspects of texts work together with this simple 'list and funnel' strategy.
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Sue de Lautour
- Sep 5
- 3 min
Embedding Mātauranga Māori into your English classroom: a mind-blowing strategy to get started!
Using texts by Māori creators is fantastic, but ignoring everyone else is going to limit students’ understanding of the world, robbing...
Sue de Lautour
- Aug 16
- 3 min
Feel the data love - The BEST way to graph and analyse class data
So many of us teachers hate graphing and analysing our data! It's one more job, NOT in that 'Urgent and Important' box, done just to...
Sue de Lautour
- Aug 3
- 3 min
SEE the writer behind the lines when close reading. Fun activity!
I wasn't convinced my Year 13s (grade 12) were appreciating that there really was a person - an actual real-life person like us - who...
Sue de Lautour
- Jul 20
- 3 min
Close reading - tone and mood made easy!
I’d rather clean the house, iron, grocery shop…anything other than clean my car. It’s too exhausting, there are too many tools to get...
Sue de Lautour
- Jul 6
- 3 min
Improve proofreading by helping students HEAR their writing - here's a fun game to help!
Your students must be able to read their work aloud, paying attention to punctuation, before they can proofread it. This requires training!
Sue de Lautour
- Jun 21
- 2 min
Teach the possessive apostrophe with this ONE simple trick!
This trick for teaching possessive apostrophes will save you and your students a lot of frustration.
Sue de Lautour
- Jun 8
- 2 min
The ONE WORD that helps students write about ideas in studied texts.
Students often make two mistakes when discussing ideas from texts they study in English. Take this charming sentence for example: The...
Sue de Lautour
- May 12
- 4 min
Four ways to have students buy into the writing PROCESS.
Four ways to have students buy into the writing process to embrace style conventions and enhance their work.
Sue de Lautour
- Feb 23
- 5 min
Differentiation: one EASY strategy to differentiate lessons in minutes.
In a hurry? Cut straight to the summary! Differentiation is a dumb word but a common-sense concept. It's about making things different...
Sue de Lautour
- Oct 11, 2022
- 7 min
Why Marking Students' Books is KEY to Enhancing Literacy ...and more!
English departments ramping up their literacy programmes. Hours of work have gone into designing regular activities, reading on, between...
Sue de Lautour
- Jun 23, 2022
- 4 min
Improve Writing Skills with this Simple and Fun Strategy
Students have 15 minutes to write a response, record a memory, write the first paragraph of a story that begins with a squashed sandwich…...
Sue de Lautour
- Jan 23, 2022
- 5 min
20 Sequenced Approaches to Reading
Let’s face it, so many high school teachers missed out on training in literacy – specifically, how to approach a text. ‘Doing’ a short...
Sue de Lautour
- Jan 23, 2022
- 5 min
4 Vital Classroom Habits That Improve Literacy
You’re a high school teacher, and you know your stuff. If only you felt secure about how to ‘teach literacy’. Basic errors in students’...
Sue de Lautour
- Oct 19, 2021
- 7 min
Study Time: It's time to harden up and revise for exams!
Key take-aways: Study isn’t fun, but the thought of doing it is worse that doing it. It's true! Harden up. This is not the time to be a...
Sue de Lautour
- Sep 8, 2021
- 6 min
How hitting the Sandpit helped me think about Mātauranga Māori in the English Classroom.
I went to the NZATE 2021 conference and found a magic sandpit. I’d already read up on the NCEA review and incorporating Mātauranga Māori...
Sue de Lautour
- Jul 23, 2021
- 5 min
Ready, reset, dig deep...GO!
Key points: Access the document discussed in this post here. Make a copy if you want to edit it. Click on the tabs at the bottom of the...
Sue de Lautour
- May 12, 2020
- 4 min
Just do it! Best PD Ever!
When was the last time you wrote an essay? Mmmm…thought so. Knowing the pitfalls and needs of your students is hard if you haven’t...
Sue de Lautour
- Apr 12, 2020
- 4 min
Easily write a resource for online use!
Your number one tool - Microsoft PowerPoint Before we do anything, believe that creating resources in Microsoft PowerPoint is the way to...
Sue de Lautour
- Mar 27, 2020
- 4 min
Flipping your Classroom...when There is ONLY the Flip-Side!
Stop panicking! You suddenly have to flip your classroom, and you don't know where to start. Here are a few tips to help those of you...
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