LearningLinks to Christmas

The LearningLinks series provides classroom religion teachers with the practical teaching and learning resources to assist in the design of their classroom programmes.

The focus of this LearningLinks is Christmas.

The resources provided here can be used in the teaching of specific topics on Christmas or in teaching related classroom themes.

The activities can be easily adapted to suit changes in content, learning ability and teacher preference.

This book offers teachers at all levels - in primary, secondary and early years classrooms - materials and activities that can be included in the presentation of their classroom programmes.

A feature of this book is the detailed and easy to read commentary on Christmas

This teacher background material offers a foundation for the classroom activities in the book which include:

• Reproducible black line masters for immediate classroom use
• Children's literature titles that develop Christmas themes
• Visual literacy strategies
• Directions for quizzes and word games
• Writing templates to support engagement with various text types
• Graphic organisers that can be applied to a range of contents
• Interview schedules and other teaching and learning activities.
• A comprehensive annotated list of useful web sites
• Prayers for use with students, staff and families.

This book offers classroom religion teachers a varied repertoire of teaching and learning activities in an accessible format for immediate classroom use.

These activities can be effectively implemented by the novice teacher and the experienced practitioner alike.

The teaching and learning activities contained in this book match the style and scope of activities used in other contemporary classroom programmes.

This book is a valuable reference for the classroom religion teacher who is seeking to engage, scaffold and extend their students learning in the classroom religion programme.