JACARI Teaching Workshop 2010: Key Stage 1:
Outline:
o Introductions: What is one thing that you think your pupil finds useful about your
lessons, and one thing that your pupil enjoys about them?
o Schoolteachers have said that an "ideal" Jacari volunteer combines fun or casual
activities with those relevant to schoolwork appropriate to the level of the pupil.
o Games and fun activities may be easier to think of (but more on this later);
knowing what is going on at school is harder.
o We have produced checklists on what is expected of pupils by the end of KS1
(ages 4-7): these skills may help as a starting point for a lesson. They may have
been covered at school already and need revision, or be something new. In either
case, it will be effective to spend some time learning the skill or activity ,and then
practising it, through an activity you devise or a worksheet or other prepared
resource. (Once you have a focus it is easier to find these!)
o In pairs, choose one point from either English or Maths and think about how you
could present this to your pupil, and how he or she could practise it. The activities
could be ones that you have done before. (10 minutes.)
o Share ideas and feedback.
o My ideas: one activity / lesson based on a point from the English checklist, and
one Maths point. (Plus library / online resources.)
o How to structure these into lessons: four templates.
o Further resources and games ideas.
JACARI Teaching Workshop 2010: Key Stage 1:
Sample Maths activity:
o Using one of the skills suggested in the National Curriculum for KS1:
"Understand the relationship between halving and doubling."
o Oral discussion: What does double mean? What does half mean? Where have you
heard these words before? (Double-decker, half an hour, half-time.)
o Use an object (piece of paper, pencil, biscuit) and ask how to double it. Then use
groups of two or three objects to be doubled. Help your pupil to understand that
doubling means "adding exactly the same again".
o Try the same with halves: Use an object (piece of paper, pencil, biscuit) and ask
how to halve it. Then use groups of two, four or ten (or five!) objects to be
doubled. Help your pupil to understand that halving means "putting whatever was
there before into two groups of exactly the same size".
o Show that halving 10 gives 5, while doubling 5 gives 10. So halving is the
opposite of doubling.
o Draw your activities (e.g. 14 pencils becoming 7 pencils, then vice versa).
o Write your activities down as numbers: What is half of 10? What is 4 doubled?
What is the double of 24?
o Worksheet:
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/maths/contents07multiplicationdivision.htm
JACARI Teaching Workshop 2010: Key Stage 1:
Sample English activity: task-based
o Using one of the skills suggested in the National Curriculum for KS1: "Be able to
write instructions".
o Discussion: Why do we need instructions? What instructions have you had to
follow before? What instructions might you find in a school / kitchen / garden /
car? What could go wrong if somebody didn't have the instructions they needed?
o What is the difference between these "instruction" words: must / should / can /
don't?
o Put these words in the order in which you think they would come in a list of
instructions: next, then, after that, finally, first.
o Tell me how to make a sandwich orally. Then write down five steps, using the
words discussed above. (Or dictate the steps to be written down.)
o Draw a picture of the final product!
Sample English activity: skill-based
o Using one of the skills suggested in the "spelling patterns": use the "magic E"
o Present words: con, cop, hop, pop, rod; cone, cope, hope, pope, rode. Put into
pairs.
o Are these words different? How do these two lists of words look different/ How
do they sound different?
o The E turns the vowel-sound into the "letter name". (Compare o in cop to O in
cOpe).
o Worksheet on o/e patterns:
http://www.firstschoolyears.com/literacy/word/phonics/vowels/vowels.htm
o Try to draw a picture using both cop and cope, or hop and hope!
JACARI Teaching Workshop 2010: Key Stage 1:
Sample lesson structures:
Plan 1: Focus on English or Maths
o Game of any sort (10 minutes).
o Revise last week's lesson with a worksheet or quiz, or pupil's explanation. (10
minutes.)
o Practise one English skill or one Maths skill from checklists (20 minutes).
o Spelling or mental maths activity (10 minutes).
o Game (10 minutes).
Plan 2:Focus on English and Maths
o Game (10 minutes).
o Reading plus discussion questions / written comprehension questions / creative
writing inspired by book (20 minutes).
o Maths activity from checklist. (20 minutes).
o Game (10 minutes).
Plan 3: Focus on topic
o Discussion/brainstorm of topic, e.g. a country, an animal, Christmas, sport (10
minutes).
o Reading a story based on topic, plus drawing, comprehension questions, or own
writing (20 minutes).
o Maths (from checklist or schoolwork) based on topic, e.g. sport: sums using
number of players / time length of matches (20 minutes).
o Game on topic, e.g. drawing with eyes closed, hangman, memory game (10
minutes).
Plan 4: Focus on targets:
o Choose three targets for your pupil for the term (more guidance on planning
targets coming soon, but for starters use previous experience, schoolwork or
checklists for inspiration).
o For each lesson, spend a little time working towards each of the targets, e.g.
through worksheets, creative writing, reading together, or games. You could use a
star chart to show progression through each target.
o Use the last lesson of term as a "test" lesson, with quizzes or a piece of
reading/writing to be done in 15 minutes. Don't forget a reward!
JACARI Teaching Workshop 2010: Key Stage 1:
Handy resources (for stories, worksheets and activities):
o http://www.teachingideas.co.uk (loads of worksheets for English and Maths, well
divided into subjects and skills within subjects)
o http://www.teacherresourcesgalore.com (more worksheets, slightly less easily
navigated)
o http://www.teachitprimary.co.uk/index.asp?CurrMenu=509 (entire lesson plans,
organised by topic such as Egyptians, dinosaurs, etc., or by teaching points. You
have to register an account, but the lesson plans are free after that!)
o http://www.firstschoolyears.com/literacy/word (really good worksheets on
phonics for each of the reading and spelling patterns)
o http://www.firstschoolyears.com/literacy/word/assessment/teachers%20literacy%
20profile.pdf and
http://www.firstschoolyears.com/literacy/word/assessment/pupils%20literacy%20
profile.pdf (a "literacy profile" - a large pack of activities to check your pupil's
progress in reading and writing. You could do one activity a week for revision.)
o http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml (games and activities
on phonics)
o http://www.mrsbogucki.com/aemes/resource/apps/madmath/ (Mad Maths
Minutes! - create timed worksheets on addition or subtraction)
o http://www.wirral-mbc.gov.uk/maths/maths-homework/index.asp (Maths games
such as butterfly bingo, money games, dice games)
Miscellaneous games:
o I Spy (or I Hear, I Smell...)
o Twenty questions (could use a post-it on the forehead)
o Picture consequences (or writing consequences)
o Drawing (or writing) with eyes closed
o Draw everything you can think of that begins with the letter B...
o Bingo games
o Crafts (origami http://www.origami-fun.com/origami-for-kids.html)
o Card games (snap, Go Fish)
o Memory games (either with printed cards, or you could make them together)
o Kim's game (place 12 objects on a table, then cover with a cloth and attempt to
remember them all)
o Wordsearches, crosswords (make these at http://www.teachersdirect.co.uk/resources/wordsearches/wordsearch-maker.aspx)