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Free Stuff!!! Developing Language Skills With Limited Resources. Katie Bain English Language Fellow ktbain53@gmail.com www.elfellowkbain.wordpress.com. OBJECTIVE. Participants will receive ideas for classroom use that require one or more of the following materials:
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Free Stuff!!! Developing Language Skills With Limited Resources Katie Bain English Language Fellow ktbain53@gmail.com www.elfellowkbain.wordpress.com
OBJECTIVE • Participants will receive ideas for classroom use that require one or more of the following materials: • a board and markers or chalk • copies of something printed from the Internet • note cards or small pieces of paper
Agenda • Language Experience Approach • Picture Description • 4-3-2 • Games – The Money Game, Board Race Game • Songs • Journal Writing • Reading Aloud • Story Telling • Reader’s Theater • Free lesson plan template for you to create a lesson plan now or later
Language Experience ApproachListening, Speaking, Reading, Writing • Carnaval Video • Have students list things that they saw and did. These can be one or two word responses. List the words in categories of seeing and doing. • From these words, help students to form sentences: “We saw…” “We danced, ate, laughed, celebrated, etc.” • Begin to allow the students to have more and more control over what you write on the board. • Demonstrate writing an introductory and concluding sentence: - Carnaval was very fun! - We did many things at Carnaval! - We had a great time at Carnaval! - Carnaval was a great experience!
Extending Language Experience Approach • For more advanced students, write a longer text, including different tenses or more advanced vocabulary: • What did you see and do at Carnaval last year? • What do you do at Carnaval every year? • What will you do differently at Carnaval next year? 2. Type out what the students dictate for use in the next day´s lesson. You can do… • cloze activities • comprehension questions • ordering of sentences (cut the text into sentence strips and have students order it) • choral reading • Make a book that the students illustrate (one sentence per page with student illustrations could become a classroom book).
Picture DescriptionListening and Speaking Picture Descriptions • Real-worldpurpose: TounderstandEnglishquestionwords and respondappropriately. • Find a large magazine photo. Show thepicturetotheentireclass and ask a series of questionsrelatedtothepicture. Elicit responses fromlearners. • Foradditionalpractice, putlearners in pairs.
4-3-2Developing Speaking Fluency • Give students a topic or theme (Example: Best childhood memory). • Give students a couple of minutes to gather their thoughts. • Have students pair with one student, facing that student. • Each person gets 4 minutes to talk about their topic. • Students rotate to different partners, then talk for 3 minutes about the same topic. • Students rotate and then talk for 2 minutes about the same topic.
The Money Game – Practice Speaking and Listening • The Money Game • Questions • 1. What is the objective of the lesson? • 2. Did the students meet the objective? • 3. Would you use this game in your classroom? • 4. How could you change this game to make it more appropriate for your class?
Grammar Board Race • Board Race Video • Questions • 1. What is the objective of the lesson? • 2. Did the students meet the objective? • 3. Would you use this game in your classroom? • 4. How could you change this game to make it more appropriate for your class?
Songs for Grammar Practice 1. Simple Present/Present Perfect: Here Comes the Sun 2. Prepositions: Octopus' Garden Animated Video Octopus' Garden Lyrics 3. Past Irregular: Because You Loved Me 4. Modals: Should I Stay or Should I Go 5. Conditional Tense: If I Were a Boy ***www.tefltunes.com***
Song Ideas • Make up your own! • Have students fill in the blanks as they listen to songs. • Cut the lyrics into lines and have students put them in the correct order. • Listen to songs about similar themes to compare and contrast. • Listen to songs in similar genres and have students compare and contrast. • Have students use the structure and/or grammar of the song to create their own lyrics.
Journal Writing • Give students time to write in their notebooks every day! • At first, model an “appropriate” journal entry. I usually put this on the board: • A picture with one word in English near it. • A mix of Spanish and English. • A lengthy report of my day and feelings in English. • “Grade” journals only for their attempt to write in English. The goal is to write more in English every day. • Do some dialog journals if you can.
Reading Aloud or D.E.A.R. • Read books aloud to students any age of any age as often as possible. • Use pictures for support. • Download books from the Internet and print them to read aloud or to have students read. • Download and print books or articles for students to read for a set time period each day or each week in class. • Spanish books are good too! Literacy in L1 transfers to literacy in L2 .
Story Telling • Step 1: Structure or a story and show examples • Abstract • Orientation • Remarkable event • Reaction • Coda • Language focus (past continuous) • Step 2: Students create stories • Step 3: Students revise stories • Step 4: Students become active listeners (Jones, 2012)
Reader’s Theater • Select a text • Practice – Explore – Practice (cycle) • Spoken Vocabulary (pronunciation) • Places to pause • Repeated text • Opportunities to express contrast • Perform • For a live audience • For a virtual audience
Reader’s Theater The Very Hungry Caterpillar - by Eric Carle A: In the light of the moon B: a little egg A: lay on a leaf B: One Sunday morning, A: the warm sun came up, and BOTH: ―Pop!‖ B: Out of the egg came a tiny A: And very hungry B: Caterpillar. BOTH: He started to look for some food.
Now it’s Your Turn • Take a look at my lesson plan • Create a lesson plan from an idea in this presentation or another free one that has worked well in your classroom before. • Share with us!
Websites! • www.freekidsbooks.org • www.tefltunes.com • www.timeforkids.com • www.starfall.com • http://reading.ecb.org/ • http://www.thebestclass.org/rtscripts.html • www.aaronshep.com
Sources • Webinar 8.4 "Introduction to Readers Theater" Karen Taylor • Jones, R.E. (2012) “Creating a Storytelling Classroom for a Story Telling World.” Forum. V. 50 N. 3