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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Winter is the time of celebrations of light. Through comic strips, this scaffold will help students to recognise the multi-cultural holidays historically created to help vanquish the fear surrounding the short days of the months (in the northern hemisphere), before and after the […]
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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. Forget food for the moment! Let’s get to the core of the holiday: assessing the year. Give your students the opportunity to develop their emotional intelligence and move forward proactively. This scaffold can be introduced any time, but it’s especially appropriate at Thanksgiving.
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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… Studies show that while memorising academic language is effective in the short term – to pass exams, for instance, in the long-term it is an ineffective way of learning terms that students can use in context*. Without having analysed, compared,
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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. (Did you decipher the hieroglyph above? Watch video explanation of activity to confirm it!) Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind the scaffold… This scaffold is one of many of these techniques. With it, we use an adaption of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics
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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… Knowing the sequence of events in a text, story, video, laboratory experiment, sports competition, musical composition, preparation of art materials, etc. is an essential skill for students. This is an integral part of Pre-school and Lower-Primary school lessons, but it
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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind the scaffold… Adding humour to a lesson is always a recipe for success. Humour changes the dynamic of the class and helps students to see their lessons with a different frame of mind. This scaffold uses irony – the highest form
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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… The brain sparks and grows when we make mistakes – even if we are not aware of it – because it is a time of struggle: the brain is challenged, and this is the time when it develops the most
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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of scaffold here. theory behind the scaffold… Higher-order level questions – those that elicit deeper thinking – help students to stretch their thinking and engage their curiosity, their reasoning ability, their creativity, and independence. These questions encourage students to open their minds, they offer opportunities to
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You caught a beauty!!! ************ ************ ************ Download PDF of this scaffold here. theory behind scaffold… Many language teachers will lament that getting their students excited about writing is probably their biggest challenge. However, the act of writing is so beneficial – in any language – that it’s one of the four skills that we
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