DESIGNING

EFFECTIVE

STARTERS
 STARTER
STAND if you think the statement is TRUE.
SIT if you think the statement is FALSE.

A sneeze is faster Fingernails grow Shrimp’s heart

than an eye blink? faster than hair is in its head
TRUE FALSE TRUE
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Purpose of Examples of
01 starter 03 starter

What makes a Sharing is

02 starter effective 04 caring
Why do we need
a Starter?
 The purpose of a Starter
as a hook
grab students’ attention from the
focus start of the lesson

Get students to settle and focus

on what’s happening in the day’s
lesson connections
Can be used to make
connections with prior learning
 What makes a Starter effective?

short and engage ALL has a clear

interactive students purpose
immediately

provide an elicit answers does not

appropriate level of from ALL necessarily relate
challenge for to the lesson’s
students
students objective
 What makes a Starter ineffective?

does not does not does not

engage the capture challenge
whole class students’ students’
attention thinking
How to execute an effective Starter?
Some examples….

use mini use Online

whiteboards or tools e.g.
Post-its Google form

make students do collaborative

simple physical activities like
exercises Think-Pair-Share
 Some Examples of Starters
• The answer is …. What is the question?
• Loopy Game

• Describe or creating qs based on a picture / video

• Riddles / Anagrams / Puzzle

• Bingo
• Odd one out
• Spot the mistake
 Jawapan
:
LALAT
Apakah
so alannya
?
LOOPY GAMES
Bahagian Rumah
Bingo!
Game
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Share your Starter
Share any good
Starter(s) you have
done.

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You!