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Gabriela Teixeira's curator insight,
November 15, 2014 10:28 PM
Amazing! Together with oral skills this game also associates sounds to its spelling correlates. |
Mark McMahon's curator insight,
September 5, 2013 1:15 PM
really takes the wind out of a Jane Austen novel.
Lauren Thorncraft's curator insight,
May 26, 2014 4:47 AM
This resource is a terrific educational and interactive website relevant to the English Syllabus for Stage 2 learners, and links to outcome; WRITING AND REPRESENTING 2 OUTCOME A student:
The site explain's a lesson idea that could be used to increase student's vocabulary on how to describe character traits/characteristics when composing a writing passage or story. It allows student's to broaden their vocabulary repertoire, and gain skills to be able to compose and present well-structured and coherent texts, that include descriptive and interesting character's.
This site can be used following a lesson that has just explained what traits/characteristics are (such as my IWB resource). The site encourages student's to choose a word from the 'characteristic list' (such as the one on my IWB resource). Then determine its common antonym with help from the thesaurus and create a word cloud for it using the synonyms that were listed on thesaurus.com. Additionally, the site displays a link ‘tagul.com’ which is an ICT resource which allows student’s to create ‘word clouds’. Another great tool to introduce to student’s to assist with expanding vocabulary. Overall, this is a great resource that will provide an opportunity for students to learn about characteristics, and accumulate a diverse repertoire of new vocabulary and hopefully assist with writing well-structured and coherent texts. |
Check out this activity from The Common Core Writing Book by Gretchen Owocki. One of the activities she suggests is using a 3-2-1 strategy to help students summarize text. The student must choose three key words, find two phrases that are important and also one quote. They can then share this with a small group, and move to sharing in larger groups. The post suggests that this may used for the following (quoted from the post):