ATL Skills Toolbox: Communication Skills

In every classroom, there are students who need help learning how to learn. This book looks at notetaking, identifying key ideas, research tools, stress management, test anxiety, This book offers easy-to-follow lessons that can correct poor study habits and make learning easier for every student. Suggestions on how to summarise the lesson and generalise the skill to other academic areas are provided. The enclosed CD has each lesson plan's overheads, worksheets, homework assignments, articles and other support materials in pdf format.

This guide has been updated for the new HSC English Area of Study-Discovery. It offers an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to writing essays and extended responses, as well as help with essential writing skills useful in most other assessments. No matter how well you know your subject, you will not get top marks if you cannot communicate your understanding in fluent, well-structured English. This book explains not just what to do, but why!

Jennifer Serravallo's Reading Strategies Book has helped hundreds of thousands of teachers and their readers. Now she's doing the same for writing. The Writing Strategies Book provides 300 strategies that support 10 crucial instructional goals. Whether you teach with writing workshop, 6+1 Traits, or by any other means, you'll discover a wealth of ideas for strategies to share with students for whole-group, small-group, or one-to-one instruction.
ATL Skills addressed: Communication.

Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, and Presentation. Look at good writing in any genre, and you'll find these traits. Think of them as the fuel that stokes the engine of writing. With this book, teachers will learn how to assess student work for these traits and plan instruction. And they'll be amazed at how the writing in their classroom improves. Includes scoring guides, focus lessons, and activities for teaching each trait. For use with Grades 3 & Up.

'Reflective Writing' provides concise and practical guidance on how students can improve their academic writing through self-reflective thinking, reading and writing. Covering a range of frameworks and strategies, it includes advice on applying reflective practices to personal and CV development.

In "How to Have Creative Ideas" Edward de Bono outlines 62
different games and exercises, using random words as a provocation to
encourage creativity and lateral thinking.