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Plenaries
Starters and Plenaries
How they work
Some ideas work best as starters, others only as plenaries. The best are ones that can
be used as both and review the learning at the end.
Ideas
2. Pictionary
Works particularly well for topics that are hard to liven up.
3. Everything
Give student a large sheet of paper and get them to write down everything they
remember from the previous session(s). As a plenary you can then get student to use a
different colour to add any new learning or areas that have been further developed that
day.
4. Sequence statements.
Get students to cut up statements and put them into the correct order.
6. Who am I?
This classic Post-it note game is perfect for an ice breaker, especially as you are
playing too.
7. Visual Clues
Set up a slideshow with various images and have the student guess the answer. Works
well as a visual way into a session which may be quite a lot of writing and content.
15. Anagrams
Give your student scrambled up subject specific vocabulary to unscramble. Feeling
brave? Get them to scramble up key vocabulary for you to unscramble too.
16. Agree/Disagree
Use red/green cards or piece of paper with yes/no on the front and back. Give students
statements to agree or disagree with e.g. linked to topic, about the teaching/learning,
about their confidence with areas of the topic.
18. Forbidden
Student to describe a word/key idea from the lesson with/without using given words.
(Tutor could write words/ideas in advance or student writes their own).
19. Mnemonics
Student to devise their own mnemonics to the meaning of key words (For example:
Rhythm Has Your Two Hips Moving) linked to objective.
25. Diamond 9
Put a set of ideas into order with the most important at the top. This is in the shape of a
diamond and … has 9 elements to it! Templates are easily available on line.
See diagram: