1. Engaging English Lessons and
Digital Tools
Sarah Findlater

2. Today’s Journey
Poetry
Creative Writing
Class Novel
Digital Tools

3. Poetry
Powerful approaches to poetry

4. My Favourite Poetry
Activities
Word jumble
Word cloud
Acting actions
Onion approach
Visual response
Role play poetry
Poetry essay train
Performance poetry
Freeze frame poetry

5. Creative Writing
Captivating approached the creative writing

6. My Favourite Creative Writing Activities
Drama
Drawing
Story Dice
Book flick
Free writing
Perspectives
Consequences
Audio / visuals
Poem crunch / word cloud
Teacher thought talk writing
Writing train association game

7. The Class Novel
Creative approaches to the class novel

8. My Favourite Class Novel Activities
Drama
Family Tree
Form Switch
Quote Quest
Visual Notes
Micro Analysis
Text Crunching
Character Bodies
Visual Organisers
Creating Comprehension
Alternate Ending / Chapter
Chapter Titles Tension / Ripple Charts
Context Virtual Trip - LitTrips & 360 Tours

9. Digital Tools
Creative approaches to the class novel

10. Class Blogging
One Class Blog
Task Setting
Collaboration
Reference
Challenges
Blogging Network
Student ownership
Real audience
Crafting
Parental engagement

11. You Tube
Upload videos
Create Playlists
Department Collaboration
Student Revision
Resource Sharing
Student Involvement
Comments
Private sharing

12. Edmodo
Fakebook
Quizzes
Polls
Assignments
Mark book
Updates
Marking Dialogue

13. Google Drive
Overview of class
Collaboration
Live Marking
IWB Sharing
Chat facility
Revision history
Any device

14. Digital Stuff I’m Having
Fun With
Class Dojo – www.classdojo.com
Blogger – www.blogger.com
You Tube – www.youtube.com
Explain Everything – www.explaineverything.com
Google Docs – www.google.com
Dropbox – www.dropbox.com
Socratic – www.socratic.com
No Red Ink - www.noredink.com
Office 365 – http://office.microsoft.com/en.gb/
Digital Leaders – www.SSAT.co.uk
Study Blue – www.studyblue.com
Survey Monkey – www.surveymonkey.com
Screenr – www.screenr.com
Onenote – http://office.microsoft/en-gb/onenote