Captain Connective Britain's most taught lesson
Superheroes give gift of grammar to school children
One of the most popular lessons being being taught by tech savy teachers is a superheroes-themed English grammar lesson, used by over 4,400 teachers across the UK, according to TESconnect http://www.tes.co.uk.
The lesson plan is one of several thousand which teachers are sharing over the web in an effort to save on time taken planning for lessons. Over xx,000 [number of total downloads of resources] have been dowloaded by teachers across the country since the launch of TESconnect in August.
The superheroes grammar lesson uses characters such as Captain Connective, Doctor Punctuation, The Incredible Opener and Violet Vocabulary which are downloaded and printed out to be used in English lessons to teach punctuation.
Edward Griffith, head of TESconnect, said: "It's fantastic to see so many teachers sharing a lesson plan, and it shows the appetitie for English teachers specifically to look at how creative ways of teaching are being shared across our industry. We're seeing plenty of other examples across ou site that are getting a lot of pick-up, and this one in particular even has 65 reader comments feeding back on their classes."
The lesson can be downloaded from The Library, TESconnect's daily highlights site, at http://tesconnect.typepad.com/xxxx. TESconnect a social network for teachers, with over half a million members.
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