THE DICTIONARY – a prince amongst books!

Three units showing how to implement a series of lessons on teaching students to make effective and efficient use of that most important of books - the dictionary. Lessons include alphabetical order, guide words and using a dictionary to clarify meaning.

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

ALPHABETICAL ORDER

Alphabetical order is one of the most frequently used skills in everyday life. We use if for street directories, telephone books, dictionary, book indexes. This pdf file is in 'How To' format and designed for students aged 8 years plus who need consolidation or introduction to using alphabectical order.

REVISING STUDY SKILLS

REVISE THE FOLLOWING SKILLS: atlas, proof reading, word study, fact and opinion, analysing statements etc skills for students aged 9 -14.

Study Skills1

Study Skills2

QUIZ CARDS

The Quiz Cards feature essential study skills including atlas skills and word study. They are designed to:encourage students to think logically, deductively and laterally;enhance students' abilities in interpreting and answering questions and responding appropriately to instructions and directions; AND extend and enrich students' spoken and written vocabularies

YELLOW PAGES FOR ESSENTIAL SKILLS

The Yellow Pages ® is a readily available resource containing a wealth of information about your local region, civil defence information and emergency services contacts.As well as this, it provides us with a ready-to-use classroom resource to introduce ‘real life’applications of the essential skills and English strands of reading and visual language, in the particular context of research,information and word study skills.

COLLINS ATLAS SKILLS

An introduction to the just-released New Zealand centric Collins World Atlas. It features ideas for teachers to use in the classroom for atlas skills development.

ALL UNIT WORKSHEETS PREPARED BY CHRIS STEPHENSON

Technology / Reading / Writing Task Sheets (Prepared byChris Stevenson)

Connected 3

Connected 3, 2002, Reading Age 9-13+

Connected 3, 2001, Reacing Age 9-13+

Connected 2

Connected 2, 2001, Reading Age 7-10

Connected 1

Connected 1, 2003, Reading Age 7-10