A

Action cards-Instructions on what to do.

Action plan-Document what needs to be done.

Acrostic poem – Using a word as the opening letter of a phrase or sentence.

Literacy

Advert/ Advertising

Agony aunt – Writing to or responding as.

Literacy

Alien visits (Alienation) – As an alien describing or explaining something.

Anecdotes

Animated activities – Actually doing the activities.

Equal Opportunities

Articles/journals – Using or writing.

Literacy

Artefacts

Equal opportunities

Art work

Assessments

Auction – Identifying priorities and bidding for them.

Award Ceremony – To identify nominations.

B

Balloon debate/boat debate – Justifying your position.

Literacy

Balloon questioning – Blowing air into a balloon when asked a certain style of question.

Banner

ICT

Before and after – Visual or written.

Bible reading/ investigation/ games

Literacy

Bookmark

ICT

Brainstorm

Equal Opportunities

Brochure

ICT

Business sense – Setting up a company to look at a particular issue.

Bullet points

Equal opportunities

Button discussion – Allocation of buttons to identify amount of point able to put forward.

Literacy

C

Caricature – To draw out certain features.

Cartoons

Case Studies – Applying knowledge to an actual case.

Categorising – Grouping ideas.

Chalk and talk

Chat shows – Prepared and presented.

Chinese whispers

Chronology – Ordering.

Class discussion

Literacy

Close procedure – Completing a passage.

Literacy

Coffee game – Illustrating the idea of trading and fair-trade (Christian Aid).

Collaborate writing – Producing a piece in collaboration with others.

Literacy

Collage

Colour coding – Categorising using colour.

Commentary – Bring out the important points.

Literacy

Competition

Equal opportunities

Concept maps – Tracing related issues.

Equal Opportunities

Correcting the passage – Finding mistakes in a given piece and correcting them.

Literacy

Council of all beings – Allowing none human forms to gain the gift of speech and have their say.

Crossword

Literacy

Curriculum Vitae – Designing for himself or herself or a given character.

ICT

Cutting and sticking – Pupils create a 3D shape and incorporate ideas and information.

Equal opportunities

D

Dance – Movement to accentuate ideas.

Debating

Literacy

Demonstrations

Designing

Diamond Nine – Ranking ideas in the order and shape of a diamond.

Digital Camera

ICT, Equal opportunities

Discussion

Literacy

Drama

Drawing

DVD – designing additional scenes that might be found on a DVD.

E

E-Mail – Contact experts on the net

ICT, Equal opportunities

Empathy exercises

Essays

Literacy

Evaluation questions

Literacy

F

Fact file

ICT

Family tree

Festival food tasting

Fifteen to one – In the style of the game show.

Equal Opportunities

Fifty questions

Fill in the gaps

Literacy

Flow diagram – To identify progression.

Flyer

ICT

Footnotes – Identifying points to comment on.

Literacy

For/against – Identifying arguments on each side.

Formal debate

Freezing – Freezing during an activity to emphasise and discuss points.

Fundraising

G

Games – Board games, card games any kind of games!

Equal opportunities

Game of Life – Game where pupils make the key life choices of a person.

Equal Opportunities

Gathering pupil ideas – Feedback or plenary.

Glossaries

Literacy

Go for five – Breaking work tasks and lessons into five parts.

Equal opportunities

Group work

Guess the person – Give clues to an identity.

Guest speakers

Guided meditation

Guidelines for… - Giving instructions on how to do certain things.

H

Headlines – from newspapers as stimulus, or designing them to fit a story.

ICT

Highlighting – Identifying key ideas in a passage.

Holiday brochure – Written work in this style to advertise a place.

ICT

Hot Potatoes – Using the programme to design questions or answer ones already done.

ICT, Equal opportunities

Hot seat – Directing questions to a character or person identified.

I

Ice breakers – Getting to know you activities, various.

Iconography – Exploring or designing.

Illustrations

Imaginary complaint from God – About a given issue.

Literacy

Improvisation – Making up a response.

In other/ your own words – Translating into a more appropriate manner of speaking.

Literacy

In the line – Taking up a position in a line to illustrate where you stand.

In the style of… - Doing an activity in a particular style.

Independent activities

Insert for guidebook – To explain the importance of something.

Literacy

Internet search – Using prepared pages on our website.

ICT, Equal opportunities

Interviews – Interviewing a character for a particular point.

Investigation – Looking deeper into something.

Is your line important? – Splitting a passage into sentences and getting pupils to make a value judgement on their line. To get to the heart of the passage.

Literacy

J

Jeopardy – Guessing the question

Jigsaw learning – ‘Expert’ groups search for information and return to ‘home’ group where all information is collated.

Job description – Identifying the roles or expectations of a person or character.

Journalist report

Literacy

K

Key words

Literacy

Kite making – Making and flying with a message.

L

Labelling – Providing an appropriate label for an item.

Led reflection

Letter - (Complaint/ praise)

Literacy

Life as a journey – Illustrated life maps identifying key stages in life.

Line by line story telling – Each person provides a sentence to the story to build on what has been previously said.

Literacy

Literacy games – Games around definitions.

Literacy

Liturgy

Liturgy preparation

M

Magazine articles – Writing or using.

Literacy, ICT

Maps – Using or drawing.

Market trading game – To identify the effects of trading (Christian Aid).

Marking – Marking their own work or each other’s.

Masks – Designing, making or using.

Mass booklet

ICT

Matching up – Pictures with words, ideas with meanings or definitions.

Literacy

Meditation

Men are from mars, women from Venus. – In the style of the board game.

Equal Opportunities

MFI Instructions – A set of instructions to explain how something is done.

ICT, Equal opportunities

Mime

Mind journey – Guiding the mind to imagine something and reflect upon it.

Mind Maps – Introducing a concept and tracing through the ideas that go with it.

Moving outside – Looking for evidence in nature.

Multiple choice

Music

N

Newsletter

Literacy, ICT

Newspaper articles

Literacy, ICT

Nine lives – Having nine chances to do something.

Nominations- Putting people/characters forward for something.

Notes

Literacy

Notice board

O

OHP

Equal Opportunities

Old documents – Using the effect of in the presentation of work.

Literacy

Open/ close questioning

Open surgery – Allowing pupils to identify what they want to look at.

Oral testing

Order of service – Writing or using.

ICT

P

Paired work

Pancake race – As a reminder of shrove Tuesday.

Paper around the room – Asking pupils to add information to different prompts as they move around the room.

Equal Opportunities

Paper bag game – To identify employment issues (Christian Aid).

Equal Opportunities

Paper plates – To make into a seder plate.

Parachute games – Using a parachute in playing games.

Parish council – To act in the role of to discuss issues.

Pass and shoot – To hand over response to another person.

Literacy

Personal experience

Philosophical teasers – Posing philosophical or ethical dilemmas.

Photographic evidence – To illustrate in the style of photographs.

Picture stimulus

Equal Opportunities

Plans (lesson/service) – Designing an outline on a particular theme.

Pledge – A promise to do something.

Poems

Literacy

Postage stamp – Designing on a particular theme.

Post card – Designing and writing home.

Literacy

Posters

Power point

ICT, equal opportunities.

Prayer

Pre-empting exercises – Identifying ideas before they happen.

Presentations – Students delivering information.

Equal opportunities

Prioritising – Putting things in priority order.

Probability games

Project

Project committee game – Submitting proposals to a committee and discussing where priority should be given.

Equal Opportunities

Promises – Said or written.

Prompt cards – Cards with key ideas.

Proximal learning – Spending equal time in single sex, mixed sex and friendship groups.

Equal opportunities

Pub style quiz

Equal Opportunities

Pupil experience

Q

Questions

Question a character

Quizzes – All kinds!

Equal Opportunities

R

Races – Competition element or time limit given.

Equal Opportunities

Radio – Using ideas from.

Radio interview

Read and shoot – To pass over reading to another person.

Literacy

Recipe – To write instructions in the style of ingredients and method.

Re-ordering exercise – Putting items in a more appropriate form.

Remembering games

Research (books/internet)

Literacy, ICT

Research grids – Using a template for research.

Literacy

Role play

S

Scaffolding ideas – Building up ideas in the form of a structure.

Scripts – Writing or using.

Literacy

Seder meal – Acting out and tasting.

Equal Opportunities

Self-evaluation

Seminar style – Discussing an article or issue having prepared for it.

Setting exam questions – Writing their own exam questions.

Sequencing – Putting things in an appropriate order.

Sketching/ sketches

Skimming/ scanning text

Literacy

Slide shows

Equal Opportunities

Slips of paper – Pupils complete a sentence on paper, and then they are collected in and read out.

Snakes and ladders – Designing a game in the style of to illustrate a point.

Soap operas – Using as a stimulus or creating an episode.

Song lyrics – Either using them or writing them

Literacy

Speech

Literacy

Speech bubbles – Identifying reactions or responses.

Spellings

Literacy

Spider-gram

Stained glass – Designing or exploring.

Stamp test – Summarising in the space of a stamp.

Literacy

Standing in a line – Identifying a place to stand that best suits your view.

Stand up if… - identifying categories of people.

Station activity – Different activities placed around the room.

Equal Opportunities

Stereotyping games

Stilling activities – Breathing, focusing and stilling.

Stimulus – Using picture, film, music, story or any other means as an introduction.

Equal Opportunities

Storyboards

Students as scribes – Using students in plenary sessions to document key ideas.

Summaries

Literacy

Summary and add – Add to what has been said.

Literacy

Summary cards – Cards to identify key points.

Literacy

Surfing the net

ICT, Equal Opportunities

Survey – Using as stimulus or designing and carrying one out.

T

Teacher explanation/ demonstration

Teaching younger children – What would you say?

Templates – In all sorts of shapes and sizes!

Equal Opportunities, Literacy

Testimony – How you got to your point of view.

Text books

Literacy

This is your life – What to include in the red book.

Literacy

Thought for the day – A lasting or final thought.

Top ten… - Putting things in this order.

Translation – Putting in another way.

Literacy

Trading trainer’s game – Outlining the issue of fair trade (Christian Aid).

Equal Opportunities

Treasure hunt – Following clues to the answer.

Equal Opportunities

True/false statements – Categorising statements as true or false.

TV Programme – Preparing for or what to include.

Two minute speech

Literacy

U

Under cover report/ agents – Investigating issues.

V

Value continuum – Standing on an imaginary line, or marking an appropriate position on the board.

Video

Video covers – Designing an appropriate cover.

Virtual Tours – Website virtual tours of churches.

ICT, Equal Opportunities

Visits

Vote with your feet – Stand where you think

Equal Opportunities

W

Weakest link – In the style of the quiz show.

Equal Opportunities

Web pages – Designing and building.

ICT, Equal Opportunities

Who wants to be a millionaire – In the style of the show.

Equal Opportunities

Why game – Pursuing answers to questions with why until a full answer is formed.

Word art – Putting written work into shapes or pictures.

Word pictures – Replacing key words in a passage with pictures.

Word search

Word stories – Creating a story by adding a word at a time.

Worksheet

Writing frames – Identifying a pattern/template.

Literacy

Writing model answers – Correcting draft material of upgrading exam answers.

Literacy

Written conversation – Each participant writes what he or she would have said. The paper is passed between the two then read out.

Literacy

X

Y

Yes/ no questions – Quick fire questions, but avoiding the yes or no answers.

Equal Opportunities

Ying/yang guessing game – Guessing whether something has a ying or yang force.

Z