RSS 1.0English for Primary School Curriculum
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<b>To view all items in the collection click on the title tab in the search box above</b><br><br><br>This collection contains English lesson plans and worksheets for primary schools. The Explorers English materials aim to help primary school teachers to implement and evaluate learning experiences that will enable students to develop: a response to reading material; Expressing a reaction to poems including a written response; Discussing poetry as a group; Listening and responding to the opinions of other students about a poem; Drafting, revising and finalising a poem; Using visual resources and class artwork as a stimulus for writing; Reading aloud with expression; Understanding Ireland’s marine resources.
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Ocean Superhero Comic Book TemplateTemplate to create a comic about an ocean superhero that tackles climate change. This can be used to complement the other lessons on an ocean climate superhero.
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Creative Writing – Planning an Ocean Superhero StoryThe aim of the lesson plan is for the children to use their imagination and create a story about a super-hero that needs the children’s help with solving problems that climate change is causing around the world (e.g. effects on the animals in the ocean etc). The planning session and sheets will provide the children the skills to brainstorm and develop their ideas about a superhero, the super heroes super-powers and how the children can work together to care for our ocean. This lesson is suitable for 4th to 6th Class and includes a story planning sheet (separate document).
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English 4th to 6th Class, Creative Writing. Creating Dialogue: Superhero Characters Save the OceanThe aim of the lesson plan is for the children to develop ideas and discuss how climate change is affecting the ocean. They will then establish the conversations that characters will have to help tell their story. The children will work in pairs or teams to develop dialogue for a creative story of how their superhero battles against a Climate Change villain. This lesson plan is suitable for 4th to 6th Class.
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English 4th to 6th Class: Developing Writing Styles - Using Paragraphs to Create an Ocean SuperheroIn this lesson children will learn about different kinds of writing styles such as explanatory, descriptive, and persuasive as they write about an Ocean Hero or hero that inspires them and through this learn more about climate change and the ocean. This lesson is suitable for 4th to 6th Class.
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Mind Map and Word Wall – Climate Change and the OceanIn this lesson children will learn about climate change and its impact on the ocean through learning about the words associated with climate change. This lesson is suitable for 4th to 6th Class.
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English 5th and 6th Class: Marine TV - An investigative report on the marine science survey aboard the RV Celtic ExplorerThe aim of the lesson plan is for the children to learn how to use key media questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? They will work in groups to write a script where they can play different characters aboard the research vessel, allowing them to work collaboratively and use their imaginations.
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English 5th and 6th Class: Storyboard your own deep sea voyage of discoveryThe lesson introduces students to how stories are developed for film. Students will draft a storyboard for a film imagining they are a team of marine scientists embarking on their own underwater voyage of discovery. They will interpret marine and scientific language and through a combination of the real and the imaginary, develop their own storyboard and film.
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English: 3rd and 4th Class –Jigsaw discussions on Ireland’s Mackerel Fishery (English and Irish version available)The aim of the lesson plan is for the children to develop their reading skills while learning about Ireland’s Mackerel Fishery. The children will learn skimming, scanning, note taking and summarizing. The children will explore non-fiction texts for a variety of purposes. They will also get to use information retrieval techniques in cross curricular settings.
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English 5th and 6th Class - The Energy Debate (English and Irish version available)The aim of the lesson plan is for the children to develop cognitive abilities in developing ideas and discuss issues of major concern relating to energy. The students will justify and defend particular opinions or attitudes they have developed and try to persuade others to support a particular point of view.
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English 5th and 6th Class - Marine Litter and What is in the News (English and Irish version available)The aim of the lesson plan is for the children to explore new interests and perspectives through reading about the effects of marine litter. The students will continue to develop a range of comprehension strategies to deal with narrative, expository and representational reading materials.
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English: 3rd and 4th Class - Marine TV and reporting on Marine Pollution (English and Irish version available)The aim of the lesson plan is for the children to learn how to use key media questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? The children will discuss cause and effect in relation to processes and events and predict possible outcomes. They will also explore reactions to ideas through improvisational drama.
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English: 1st and 2nd Class – Soundscapes and the Big Blue Sea (English & Irish version)The aim of the lesson plan is for the children to develop receptiveness to language by listening to stories and responding to them; listening to sounds and responding to them; and using gestures and movement to extend the meaning of what he/she is saying.
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English: 1st and 2nd Class - My Boat Story – Reading activities (English and Irish versions available)The aim of the lesson plan is for the children to continue to experience the reading process being modelled through receptiveness to language. The children will also engage in shared reading activities.
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English: Juniors and Seniors Infants Class - Ocean Swap Game and Marine Vo-back-ularyThe aim of the lesson plan is for the children to experience, recognise and observe simple oral commands while participating in games relating to marine animals.
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Juniors and Seniors Infants Class - I Spy an Ocean in Our Class – Learning about Irish marine animalsThe aim of the lesson plan is for the children to develop and interest and an ability to think about marine animals through stories and games. The children will be able to predict future incidents and outcomes in stories.
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Explorer's classroom aquarium writing bookStudents will become familiar with the Irish and English names of the animals that live on the Irish Seashore by writing about the animals that live in their Explorers aquarium. They will also be able to develop their imagination, writing a story about a “new” species they have never seen before.
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Creative writing: adventurers on the seashore.By creating and using a list of marine related words in the story, students will demonstrate what they know about Ireland’s marine life and seashore.
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Creating a newsletter or newspaper.Creating a class newsletter, students will build their vocabulary and writing skills through drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Students will become familiar with the process of producing formal written documents, such as magazines and newspapers. Through interacting with others in the class, students will also learn how to work within a team.
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Writing poetry about Ireland’s seashore and oceans.Students will learn about the different types of poems using structures and formatting techniques. As part of the lesson, students will read, listen and develop their understanding about a poem by expressing their reaction through discussion. The students will use their creative thought to write a poem about the seashore and Ireland’s oceans. *This lesson plan can be used over a number of days due to all the activities and time restrictions.
