Kate Brown is a humanities teacher at an international school in the UK, and a consultant on educational resources.

Starters and plenaries are now established elements of all good lesson planning. A good starter gets a class engaged right from the word go, challenges and motivates students, and sets a positive tone fro the rest of the lesson. A good plenary allows students to focus on the key objectives of the lesson, and to reflect on the progress they have made.

Contents:
About this book
In your own words (or pictures)
Everything you know
List three things
Summarize
Visually represent
Annotate
Mnemonics
What do you say to that?
Questioning
Questions...with a twist
Questioning: a team sport
True or false
What would you ask me?
Peer questioning
If this is the answer, what was the question?
Any (other) questions?
Key words
Write your own dictionary definition
Match the key word with its definition
Key word pelmanism
Key word anagrams
Key word acronyms
Crosswords
Word searches
Make a sentence with this word
What key word am I?
Game show
Bingo
Just a minute
Who wants to be a millionaire?
Pictionary
Rapidough
Blockbusters
Taboo
Mallett's Mallet
Dominoes
Figure it out
Mystery object
Sequence it
Cloze this
What happens next?
Odd word out
Ranking
Spot the difference
Sort these
Finish this sentence
Analogies
Physical
Stand on the line
Act this out
Show me
Reflect on your learning
Traffic lights
Set a target
Self or peer mark
Top tips
Link the learning