Thread: share your language arts activities...

Mine love to act out vocabulary words. They especially love it when I give them several words and they have to put together a short skit incorporating the words. It gets even better when it is a unit review. All the words get thrown in a bag and each group draws out three or four words. The challenge is trying to make them all relate.

Sounds like it could get really interesting. Thanks.

My students act out scenes from the books we read. Each chapter contains so many scenes, and I divide my students into about five or six groups. They perform the scenes in order and it's like a real play. It really helps the students remember the tiny facts that they often forget. (Like how many apples Johnny ate. He ate 3, not four. Well not really, but you get the gist.)

I definitely agree with the interactive classroom method,as the students I teach are 17 and 18-year-old kids. They feel underrated if you don't let them have their own say. But 8th grade like taking part,and mine 8) .. - I have to make a pause and not to finish my sentence,which is the signal for their participation.
I taught English, but as a foreign language (this is not my mother tongue either)and now Economics.

I got a great haiku lesson plan from a web-site. I did it as a school project and they published a haiku for every child in the school as a paperback anthology. We sold it to the parents and made some money for the school too. I am working on my next anthology now and am going to be a bit more ambitious this time. PM me if you would like the website name, as I'm not sure whether you can post website details here.

Rose