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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-
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!
Make puzzles by using WEB site www.puzzlemaker.com. Puzzle 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.
www.ESLcafe.com is a good start that will lead you to lots of places!
For grammar tips look at www.dailygrammar.com.
Lots of good exercises.
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