Display strategies

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Last updated 09-Jul-2009

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• Relate headings to students' interests - may include: a catch phrase, quotation, saying, proverb, slogan, statement or date
• Focus questions, keywords and explosion charts/concept maps help add interest, poems, songs, extracts from resources
• Store all letters created in a 'letter bank'
• Create large letters / labels using the Overhead Projector
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• Have letter templates that are used to create letters of different colours and textures.

• Use students to help locate resources
• Discard old, unappealing resources (keep pictures from these discarded resources if they can be used for displays.
• Include a variety of formats; book, non-book, equipment, realia, moving items
• Use old calendars, postcards etc to add colour
• Household items e.g boxes, chairs, tubs, pots

• Small displays - bookshelf, window ledge, empty corner, table top, cabinets
• Large displays - walls, central floor area, mobile and / or fixed display boards, hang from ceiling
• Regularly shift/relocate display areas

• Fabric - use large pieces of hessian, velvet, cotton or felt, curtains, sheets or tablecloths
• Paper and Card - crepe paper, wallpaper, alfoil, corrugated card, brenex paper
• Props - screens, boxes, tables, polystyrene, trellis, fishing net, bamboo etc
• Stands - wire book stands, pegboard
• Fasteners - double-sided tape, plastic sleeves, rubber bands, Pins, plastic strips with Velcro
• Pictures from old calendars

There are a wide range of materials that can be used to create effective borders:

• Wide ribbon
• Lengths of calico, chiffon or other fabric
• Stems of leaves, branches etc
• Coloured/patterned cardboard or origami paper
• Twisted crepe paper or streamers
• Repetitive patterns
• Circular paper
• Any thematic shape (eg rabbits, frogs etc)
• Paper plates

Useful aids It is always handy to have a ready supply of items available to ensure the quick and effective creation of displays. The following items could be considered your 'First Aid Kit' for quick and easy displays! Self sticking Velcro™ Large dressmaking pins Double-sided adhesive tape Glue sticks PVA glue Blutac Staple Gun Nylon Fishing Line Bookstands

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• Displays take time and effort to create so where ever possible you should try to retain / preserve your efforts.
• Materials used for one display can often be kept and recycled for future displays
• Take photos of your displays - these photos are not just a visual record but a trigger of ideas for other displays
• Any lettering that you use can be kept and used again. Keep in a 'letter bank'. (A concertina file is a great way to store and access letters)
• Display planners - help you to plan your displays and can then be kept as a record for future reference.