Archive for December, 2006

New activity sheets aka. ‘printables’ now available

There are some new printable activity sheets available from edu-HQ. You can check them out via the ‘Activity Sheet’ link in the top menu. There are a couple of literacy related sheets, as well as some covering mathematics, science and health. Hopefully there will be plenty more to come, now that I’ve figured out [...]

I recently stumbled across a story on the Literacy Trust site that summarized the results of research done into the link between health and literacy.
Professor John Bynner and Samantha Parsons conducted longitudinal research on people born in 1958 to determine whether there was a link between low basic skills (literacy) and poor health. Their [...]

I was just reading the hipteacher blog (because that’s the sort of thing I do) and read the post about linguistic profiling. The linguistic profiler poses the question, “What Kind of American English Do You Speak?”. Well, since I’m Australian, I was curious, would the years of American TV have caused me to speak like [...]

You may have noticed some additions to the menu bar across the top of the screen. In the comings weeks (hopefully days) I’ll be posting some downloadable activity sheets. Some people refer to them as activity sheets but I’ve also seen them described as ‘Black Line Masters’ and ‘Printables’. I believe printables may be the [...]

It only takes a quick Google search to reveal countless lesson plans available for ‘free’ download from across the internet. But how do you tell the difference between a well written lesson plan and a poorly prepared one? What should you be looking for in a lesson plan, and what points should you be covering [...]