She and I both chose a word (not telling each other of course) and started to make a playdough sculpture of the word. Then when we had finished we had to look at each other's playdough and using the word only side of the cards select the word we thought went with each other's playdough sculpture. While these rules are not the original rules for the game, it was a lot of fun and achieved the objective of learning sight words and vocabulary.
One game my ESL students love to play is Jenga. We use a variety of different vocabulary cards, sight word cards, onset and rhyme cards etc. The student has to answer a question to get a turn - so it could be a question about a picture (e.g. give me an adjective that describes this picture) or it could be creating a rhyme (e.g. see picture below - tell me a word that ends in op). If the student gets it correct they get a turn, if they get it wrong the next player has a turn. You could easily adapt this to learning times tables, spelling words etc. Two years ago I was given a game called 'RapiDoh' as a secret Santa gift. This game, at the time, was a pretty silly gift. However, it has become a very useful tool in my EAL/D tool kit. The aim of the game is to create a word from the cards with playdough. The cards that came with the box are only really good for higher ability readers so I have added the sight words from the 'WOW I can read sight word flash cards" as these cards have big font and on the reverse side have big colourful pictures of the words. I took these photos today when I played with a new arrivals student who is in Year One. She is using these cards to learn vocabulary.
She and I both chose a word (not telling each other of course) and started to make a playdough sculpture of the word. Then when we had finished we had to look at each other's playdough and using the word only side of the cards select the word we thought went with each other's playdough sculpture. While these rules are not the original rules for the game, it was a lot of fun and achieved the objective of learning sight words and vocabulary.
Margaret Harris
5/29/2014 08:19:10 pm
This would be a greAt game to share with ISAs use with students in their groups Comments are closed.
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Mrs McNamaraI am an EAL/D teacher currently teaching in a primary school within the Newcastle area of NSW, Australia. Categories
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