30 June, 2008

vocab ideas

1. Total Physical Response (body movements for words)
2. Create your own sentence linking two of the words
3. Cartoon: quick drawing and describe what's there: Spanish
4. Google Notebook to go find sentences and cut/paste them
5. Spanish vocab about oral language dev.
Connect 2: list eight to ten words or brief phrases in a new unit, provide breif definitions, ask students to connect ant two of the words or phrases in a meaningful sentence, don't tell students whether connections are accurate, read the text, then ask students to confirm or revise their sentences
6. Relate vocab to your own experience
7. WRSC! for vocab: words reminds me of, etc.
8. classify words into categories
9. YOu need to encounter the words 6 to 20 times to "own it"
10. Linear arrays: have students sort similar words according to connotations: e.g. mist, rain, deluge
11. Syntactic clues: prefixes, suffixes, roots
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28 June, 2008

ideas for cell phones in the classroom

Ideas for cell phones:



1. Use the cell phone to poll students. Have them text you with a response.

2. Use cell phones as walkie talkies. One student goes somewhere else in the building and relays info to another one.

3. Have students being cells every day just to throw them off.

26 June, 2008


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