Hi everyone,
Recently
I was asked for a list of my favorite structured language practice
activities. There are so many that
it was hard to choose just a few.
I began to compile a list of these tried and true old favorites and I
thought I would share them here with you.
Each Tuesday for a while I will post a couple of fun activities to
promote language practices. Many
you will recognize or remember and hopefully you will find one or two to use
with your class! I would love to
hear what some of your favorites are!
Happy
Teaching!
Stay
and Stray
1.
Divide the class into groups.
2.
Pick interesting subjects for the groups to speak about.
3.
Post sentence frames for prompts and replies you want
students to practice.
4.
Students practice the language frames in their group.
5.
One or more members of the groups move to other groups
and practice and share the language.
Read
Aloud/Think Aloud
1.
Divide the class into groups.
2.
Readers read a section of text or passage out loud to
their group.
3.
Read then thinks aloud about the contents of that
section.
4.
The group members use strong questioning strategies to
ask the reader questions about the passage.