Some Tips from the Roundtable
In case you are looking for some new ideas, try one of these:
Use cut out letters to make the student’s name for the first class
Put letters of student’s name on the table in “messed up” order.
See if student can unscramble the letters.
Try same game with your name
Bring pictures of your family and encourage student to do the same
Bring pictures cut from magazines or advertisements to introduce
beginning letter sounds that correlate with Laubach, food families
tools families, or any word families
Bring a clock and calendar for teaching of time
Introduce opposites using 2 color index cards. Turn over and
search as a Memory Game Ex: hot-cold, right-left, on-off
Use index cards to write a sentence. Cut up words and see if student
can put in order. Makes good way to introduce proper word order,
punctuation, or capitalization
Put 4 words on index cards: “now”, “today”, “yesterday”, and
“tomorrow”. Turn cards over. Once student picks one of the words,
s/he must say a sentence using the correct tense. Example: Student
turns over “tomorrow”. The sentence must use future tense.
“Tomorrow, I will have a day off.”
Introduce vocabulary around the student’s work. Example: a maid
must learn all words associated with the job. Verbs could include:
“mop”, “dust”, and “polish”. Nouns could include: “mop”,
“sponge”, “pail”. You may not need to name parts of speech for
the beginning student, It can get confusing!
words can connect to a holiday like Christmas. Words for a Hidden
Word Puzzle might include: “Santa”, “presents”, “tree”.
Look in the library’s children section for books that introduce letter
sounds and then use them in a story
Check out all the new books and tapes that have just been purchased
with the funds from the Mimi Foley Memorial Fund Grant.
Look up the culture of your student on the WEB.
Lots of good exercises.
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