Staff meeting ELIP 09

Ideas to use in the classroom

Resource / Activity
Feelings series / Nice picture books but unfortunately the topics are a bit juvenile.
ELIP resource / This fantastic resource is invaluable when it comes to writing exemplars. Levelled 1-3.
Ready to Read / Ready to Read collection RA 5 – 9
School Journal online collection of comprehension activities
(Vanessa has and can email you if interested!) / Comprehension activities from a RA of 9 + (independent with answers)
Story Library Collection – Listen to English whilst following the text and looking at the visual clues/pictures. (Computer or CD player/headphones/CD/Book) / Write down NEW words in English and first language
Higher level students – who/what/where/why
Time lines
Summaries
Vocabulary poster / Cut pictures from magazines and label them to create large posters of categories of common vocabulary words. Categories might be food, clothing, body parts, colours, animals, playground scenes, family groups, classroom, street scenes, house and furniture, or transportation. Display the posters in your classroom.
Picture dictionary / To make a picture dictionary, staple sheets of construction paper together and have students cut pictures out of magazines. Use categories which complement your curriculum (for example, a Healthy Foods section to go with your health unit on nutrition). Encourage students to add to their Dictionary whenever possible. This is an excellent cooperative learning activity that mainstream students can share in.
www.starfall.com
Reading online Basic – 8 year level
Animated
Greek Myths
Chinese Fables
Folk Tales
Cartoons / Reading out loud
Shared/guided
Retelling the story
What is the moral?
Think of a time when you have been in a similar situation – write/explain
Write questions that the characters might ask each other. Swap and answer other students questions
http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj//FLClipart/default.html
Royalty-Free Clip Art Collection for Foreign/Second Language Instruction
A growing collection of clip art (simple line-drawings) to be used by foreign language instructors. Drawings are designed to be culturally and linguistically neutral as much as possible. / Story starters
Vocabulary
Sentences using noun/verb
Past/present tense
(see handout image bank for more ideas)


www.spellingcity.com / Add your own vocabulary words and play games, activities or listen to the words.
“Teach it” and its subsidiary website “teach it primary” are subscribed to by MBIS. I am currently looking at the ESOL component as a possibility.
www.teachit.co.uk
http://www.teachitprimary.co.uk
User3@murraysbay
Sunrise /

Wizzies

Magnet/ Chopstick/Syntex

Teachit Timer

Scrabble Anagram

Fab Phonics (free sample activity but otherwise you need to pay!)

Worksheets and lessons – topic search (choose the format – smart resource/powerpoint/word/flash

Loop game – high frequency words (word doc)

I can booklet – (verbs/sentences)

Describe a setting – powerpoint

SMART NOTEBOOK resources

Primary resources IMAGE bank

www.tutpup.com / Like Mathletics but FREE
Has both maths and spelling games that students play against other students.
You can set up a teacher account and a class and follow the progress of your students.
E - Books
www.redrocketreaders.com/ebooks.html
NEED DNL reader downloaded! / This site lets you download for FREE 4 E-Books per level emergent – fluent. There is 2 fiction and 2 non fiction per level.
NEED DNL reader downloaded!
http://a4esl.org/ / Bilingual quiz – Many languages to choose from
Vocabulary quiz
Crossword puzzle
VOA voice of America - nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions
http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/resources/SBsites.htm / Millions of SMARTBOARD templates
Go to Communication Arts for some great online activities
Try
Building language for literacy
Don’t use said
Magnetic spelling
www.readwritethink.org / Click on student materials for many cool interactive tools for literacy.
Try
comic creator
Construct a word
Flip a chip
Picture match (has sound) Great for learning ENGLISH sounds
What’s in the bag? (has sound)
Word family sort
Word Wizard – (Has Sound)
www.education.smarttech.com / Once again many smartboard resources/templates.
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/community_lang/eal_survival/index.htm / Oral commands to listen to that relate to school.
Students could write down the ones that could apply to them.
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=46 / The best, free Interactive Whiteboard Resources
Regularly updated to save you time!
Select a Category
:Punctuation GrammarandSpelling Poetry Writing Stories SpeakingandListening
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/writingfun/writingfun.Html / Great site for exemplars and templates for different writing genres
http://www.tefl.net/esl-lesson-plans/worksheet-generator/index.htm / Worksheet generator of vocabulary. You add your own vocabulary – great for specific topic based things you are doing in class.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/contents09writingpunctuationgrammar.htm / 11 punctuation posters for your classroom
Where’s Wally / Photocopy a page from the book and get the students to write in past or present tense sentences explaining where the characters are and what they are doing.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ / 100s of teaching ideas, PDFs, Word docs relating to Literacy.
Check out the punctuation, spelling, grammar and word section.
http://www.raz-kids.com/main/ViewPage/name/sample / 6 FREE interactive book samples
Maria goes to school
Scaredy crow
How the zebra got there stripes
Lots a pasta
American sports legends
A prairie dogs life