Overview When preparing students for a classroom debate, present the class with a wide variety of relevant sources. After giving students time to move [...]

Overview Newpaper reports inlcuding extracts from political speeches and interviews are often used as primary source material in the history classroom. To [...]

Overview One important literacy skill is for students to use (and, increasingly, to spot) writing which is designed to persuade rather than merely inform. [...]

Overview Emoji icons are handy little images to represent a particular feeling or concept in visual form that can often be seen in text messages, tweets [...]

Overview Instead of dividing the class into groups using the Random Name Picker or some other method, take a series of interesting images relating to the [...]

Overview Rather than present students with an image on the screen and immediately start discussing what they can see and what it might mean, provide them [...]

The increasingly accessible nature of online video and textual sources means that it is now easier than ever to watch short clips from films and video [...]