#foldables ... active learning!

For the love of Foldables by Karen Duxbury-Watkinson 

"This will be a hands-on, active learning session where you will get to practise creating some Foldables which can be used to engage even the most reluctant of learners. So bring your sense of humour and creativity to experience the fun of folding."

I really enjoyed this session on foldables/3d graphic organisers/manipulatives/origami because I felt it was something that I could use straight away in my classroom with minimal preparation. My students often require concepts and skills to be frequently repeated, and enjoy being active/creative, so this seems like an ideal way to combine those two needs without using yet another worksheet!

Some Literacy ideas for different foldables:

• Accordion fold for developing sentences or sharing stories
• 4-door diorama (pop-up) for PEEL answers
• 4-door tab books to answer who/what/when/why questions about what is happening in the story, or sequencing question prompts
• Triangles to make into mobiles for series of events 
• Picture frame book: image on the front and talk about the image inside, good for inference/deduction skills 
•  Pocket book: one side for words to learn/use, other side for words you've learnt/used for spellings/definitions/key words etc. Could colour code these and use treasury tags to keep them together.
• 3/4 door booklets: question on front and answer inside, stick together to evidence progression
• Folding compare and contrast with flaps: e.g. what/when/where etc
• Layered books for parts of a sentence