Enhancing Resilience 1 links to English

Interaction - Mixing games

Communicate and participate - pages 59-60

Sample questions - page 60

Change - identity - belonging jigsaw - page 60

Find someone who … (record sheet) - page 61

Friendship and belonging cartoons (templates) - pages 62–66

Speaking and listening

At Level 5 students express creative and analytical responses to texts, themes and issues. They identify main issues in a topic and provide supporting detail and evidence for opinions. They critically evaluate the spoken language of others and select, prepare and present spoken texts for specific audiences and purposes. They use a variety of multimedia to support individual presentations in which they inform or persuade an audience. When listening to teachers, students ask clarifying questions and build on the ideas of others. They identify key ideas and take notes. They show an awareness of the influence of audience on the construction and presentation of spoken texts, and of how situational and sociocultural factors affect audience responses.

Level 6 Speaking and listening

At Level 6 students analyse critically the relationship between texts, contexts, speakers and listeners in a range of situations. When engaged in discussion, they compare ideas, build on others’ ideas, provide and justify other points of view, and reach conclusions that take account of aspects of an issue. In their presentations, they make effective use of the structures and features of spoken language to deal with complex subject matter in a range of situations. They draw on a range of strategies to listen to and present spoken texts, including note-taking, combining spoken and visual texts, and presenting complex issues or information imaginatively to interest an audience.

Changes and coping: making stories

Making stories activity - page 67

Making stories worksheets - pages 69–74

Level 5 Reading

At Level 5 students read and view imaginative, informative and argumentative texts that explore information related to challenging themes and issues. They identify the themes and issues explored in these texts, and provide supporting evidence to justify their interpretations. They produce personal responses, for example, interpretive pieces and character profiles. They infer meanings and messages into texts, analyse how social values or attitudes are conveyed, compare the presentation of information and ideas in different texts, and identify cause and effect in informative texts.

Level 6 Reading

At Level 6 students read, view, analyse and discuss contemporary and classical imaginative texts that explore personal, social, cultural and political issues of significance to their own lives. They also read, view, analyse and discuss informative and argumentative texts such as current affairs and news articles, features, editorials, documentaries and reviews. They identify the multiple purposes for which texts are created. They explain how texts are shaped by the time, place and cultural setting in which they are created. They compare and contrast the typical features of particular texts. They synthesise information from different texts to draw conclusions.

Grouping games

Grouping games protect participants from the pressure of choosing or being chosen
Number off - page 44

Matched pairs card game - page 44

Deck of cards grouping - page 44

Sweet belongings - page 44

Families card groupings - page 44

Shapes - page 44

Jigsaws - page 44

Coloured cards groups - page 45

Name lotto - page 45

Blindfold pairs - page 45

Family card groupings (template) - page 46

These are useful activities for classroom learning and connection.

Advice column

Poetry reading - page 81

Paired advice - page 82

Feelings poems - page 82

Dear 'Chicks' (poem handout) - page 83

Level 5 Writing

At Level 5 students produce, in print and electronic forms, texts for a variety of purposes, including speculating, hypothesising, persuading and reflecting. They write extended narratives or scripts with attention to characterisations, consistency of viewpoint and development of a resolution. They write arguments that state and justify a personal viewpoint; reports incorporating challenging themes and issues; personal reflections on, or evaluations of, texts presenting challenging themes and issues. They edit their writing for clarity, coherence and consistency of style, and proofread and correct spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors.

Level 6 Writing

At Level 6 students write sustained and cohesive narratives that experiment with different techniques and show attention to chronology, characteristation, consistent point of view and development of a resolution. They write argumentative texts dealing with complex ideas and issues and control the linguistic structures and features that support the presentation of different perspectives on complex themes and issues. They select subject matter and language to try and position readers to accept particular views of people, characters, events, ideas and information. They compose a range of other texts, such as feature articles or web pages. They plan and deliver presentations, sequencing and organising complex ideas, and proofread and edit their own writing for accuracy, consistency and clarity.

Team building games

To enhance and examine cooperation and problem solving

Knots - page 50

Balloon pairs - page 50

Foot fumblers - page 50

Life raft - page 51

Clap race - page 51

Sitting circle - page 51

Hoops and ropes - page 51

Human alphabet - page 52

Construction challenge - page 52

Sit down synchrony - page 52

Summertime relay - page 53

Human bridges - page 53

These are useful activities for classroom learning and connection.

Welcome

Names - page 22

Mixing - page 23

Communicate! Find your partner - page 24

Sample questions - page 25

Four things in common (record sheets) - page 26

Matched pair cards (template) - page 27

These are useful activities for classroom learning and connection.

Name games

A range of name games to play with new groups
Games for different classrooms - page 41

Name toss - page 42

The autograph game - page 42

I am and I like - page 42

Shake on it - page 43

Name chant - page 43

Name wave - page 43

These are useful activities for classroom learning and connection.

Picture your feelings: a lesson on metaphor

Talking about metaphor - page 75

Sample questions - page 76

Poetry in pairs - page 77

Poems (handout) - page 78

Feelings (worksheet) - page 79

Word pictures (worksheet) - page 80

These are useful activities for classroom learning and connection.

Mixers & energisers 'get to know you' games

Games to wake them up, get them moving, begin grouping or as coathangers upon which to hang a theme
Human bingo - page 47

Structured conversations - page 47

Fast foods - page 47

Anyone who … - page 48

Line-ups - page 48

These are useful activities for classroom learning and connection.

Towards Tomorrow

One story - pages 100–101

Research - pages 101–102

Reconciliation - page 103

Discussion - page 103

Presenting the research - page 103

These are useful activities for classroom learning and connection.