ELL Activity Collection
Published on Aug 11, 2018
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Communication Games: Barrier Game
Barrier Game
- Students will sit with a screen (barrier) between them
- One student has the cards with the blocks stacked while the other student has the blocks
- The student with the card must verbally instruct the other student how to stack the blocks to complete the task
- This can be done with legos, a drawing or shapes with a Guess Who game.
I chose barrier games because it is a great communication game that students would have a lot of fun with. It is very difficult to explain what you want someone to do rather than just showing them. This is a great skill to have so that is why I will use this game in my classroom to have students practice. I will use it with drawings, legos, blocks, folding paper, etc.
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Learning Centers
Learning Center Options
- Word Work - build high frequency words out of letter tiles, magnetic letters or letter stamps
- Pocket Chart - Students use words and picture cards to build compound words
- Computer Center - Students work cooperatively to collaboratively write a story about a magic carpet, if I were a raindrop, etc.
Learning centers are always important in a classroom. This allows students to practice skills while working with a partner or independently. Word work allows them to doing a hands on activity while practicing their sight words. Pocket chart activities are great because it gets the students up and moving while being hands on while moving stuff around. The computer center is a favorite because students of today's word love technology. This center allows them to work on multiple skills (writing, typing skills, computer navigating skills, working collaboratively, etc.)
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Graphic Organizers
Graphic Organizers
- With every new story include who, what, when, where, why and how at the bottom
- Use graphic organizer for describing characters
- Venn Diagram for comparing and contrasting stories
There are such a wide range of graphic organizers to use. These are great because it teaches students to organize their thoughts and/or ideas. If students use these enough then it trains their brain to think this way and students will end up drawing out their own graphic organizers. I will use these for character development, comparing and contrasting, story progression, etc.
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Compare and Contrast the characters Frog and Toad
Frog and Toad books are a favorite of first grade. I will use graphic organizers to compare and contrast the two characters, compare and contrast the different stories and sequencing the stories.
Read, Pair, Share
Read, Pair, Share
- Introduce the question words (who, what, when, where, and how)
- Model how to modify the questions
- Silent read the text
- Model how to modify the questions to fix the text
- Partner based on ability (don't partner two low students)
Read, pair, share is a great strategy to use with students. It allows students to work cooperatively, bounce ideas off each other, clarify if they don't understand a word or something in a text and have to prove their answer to someone. I will use this strategy with a lot of the different texts in my classroom. This is great for informational text in Science which can sometimes be a little tougher to read and understand.
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Read, Pair, Share
- Partner work (going back into the text to show where they found their answers)
- Share out answers
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Read, Pair, Share Activity
Story Retell
Story Reenactment
- Read the story (whole class, partner read, silent read, etc.)
- Retell the story (work on sequence and what props they need)
- Gather or make props
- You can do this with any story
- Fairy Tales (Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, Stone Soup, etc).
This is a great strategy to use. It reinforces comprehension of the text and sequencing of the story. Students love building things and also reenacting. I will use this for familiar stories but also newer stories so that they better understand them. Kids love them for like The Three Little Pigs which is demonstrated in the picture of the kid blowing down a house.
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References
- Herrell, A., & Jordan, M. (2012). 50 Strategies for teaching English language learners (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education.
- Sousa, D. (2011). How the ELL brain learns. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
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