In the first five years of teaching more than 50% of teachers leave the teaching profession. I came dangerously close to becoming a part of this statistic after numerous burn outs throughout my first four years. I want to do something to change this and so every Monday I will be a mentor by sharing my teaching resources and classroom tips.
Creating resources is where I get to put to use my creativity and my writing background and I want them to have a larger audience. Feel free to share, use and adapt my resources.
Pre Reading Activity

two_wolves_pre_reading_activity.ppt |
Cornell Summary Notes
Then I get students to work in groups to create Cornell summaries with the headings: Characters, Themes, Setting, Important Quotes.
I give them the important quotes and support them by adding feedback to the Cornell notes. These notes are then given to each student to use for their text response.
Table of contents:
- Cornell summary notes chapters 1-4
- Cornell summary notes chapters 1-4-modified
- Cornell summary notes chapters 5-8
- Cornell summary notes chapters 5-8-modified
- Cornell summary notes chapters 9-12 7
- Cornell summary notes chapters 13-16
- Cornell summary notes chapters 17-21
- Cornell summary notes chapters 22-24
- Cornell summary notes chapters 25-29
- Cornell summary notes chapters 30-34
- Cornell summary notes chapters 35-38

two_wolves_cornell_chapter_summary_notes.docx |
Modified student activities

two_wolves_modified_activities_booklet.docx |
Text Response Essay Scaffolds
I teach students to write TEEL paragraphs first and then the introduction. For modified students I provide the evidence for them and get them to fill in the rest.
Attached is a booklet with the activities that I teach to undertake writing activities.
Table of Contents:
- LI: How to use evidence in a text response essay
- TEEL Paragraph Topic: How does the author create nature as a challenging setting? Paragraph sample
- TEEL Paragraph Topic: How does the author create nature as a challenging setting?
- TEEL Paragraph Topic: How does Ben find his home environment challenging as a setting?
- TEEL Paragraph Topic: What is a character that Ben finds difficult/challenging?
- Two Wolves Introduction Scaffold
- Scaffolds for Modified students

two_wolves_writing_a_text_response_booklet.docx |

The sentence starter models are based on the book The Student Guide to Writing Better Sentences in the Classroom by Ticking Mind. This book is a incredible resource and I can't recommend it highly enough.
I have done a few professional learning workshops and bought units of work from Ticking Mind and they are brilliant resources.