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Welcome to Student Starters™, a great resource written by teachers to help you start each class effectively and build student bonds in your classroom.

ImageThis Student Starters™ document is designed with the busy teacher in mind and is full of fun strategies for quickly engaging your students and improving peer relationships.  We have been careful to select student starter activities that require little set up and few or no materials.  This is a 45 page document chalk full of great ideas for the junior, intermediate or senior classroom.

This document has been a great find.  I have used so many of the starter ideas and my kids love them!   Carl  - Gr. 7 teacher

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These ideas work and your students will be glad you’ve discovered them – and you’ll be glad too! 

Topics include:  

  • The Greeting
  • Sentence Starters
  • Quote Of The Day
  • Two Minute Puzzles
  • Optical Illusions
  • Fishbowl Discussion Strategy
  • News of The Day
  • Signature Game
  • The Great Debate
  • The Sentence Game
  • Hink-Pink
  • Twenty Questions
  • Two Truths And A Lie
  • Prayers
  • Poems
  • Student Survey
  • Four Corners
  • Story Starters

Only $9.99!  (Canadian Funds)

Also, we have included suggestions for your use on the following topics:

  • Appropriate Prizes For Students
  • Strategies For Dealing With Late Students
  • Seminar Starter Ideas For Students

In addition, this document recommends many useful websites that you can use to develop more student starter activities.

Order now and start planning with this fun document!

Our Guarantee: 
If you are not completely satisfied with this document, we will refund your money, no questions asked.  

Suggestion: 
Why not ask for reimbursement from your school's professional development fund.

Also, if you have a Student Starters™ activity that works,...

We are currently in the process of accepting and selecting the best Student Starters™ activities from around the world. Please consider making a submission to this document.  To get started, please visit our guidelines for submissions page.


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 'It is what teachers think, what teachers do, and what teachers are at the level of the classroom that ultimately shapes the kind of learning that young people get.'
Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan
 
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