This lesson will enhance the students awareness of reading and allow them to hear the difference between a reader who follows signs and one who does not. Using kinesthetic, visual and auditory modalities, students create and read words using cut out letters. A lesson on the dipthong 'oi. Although originally designed for ESL students, this activity may be used in language arts or easily adapted to foreign language classes. The sample game provides drill in phonics, but the game format can be used in any subject area.
Teacher makes charts labeled with the names of various fruits and vegetables in each square.
Students glue real seeds for those fruits and vegetables in the correct squares. Students learn how dinosaurs are named, participate in a group fossil dig, and create an image of a dinosaur. In this lesson, students measure the length of their feet and shoes using nonstandard measurements. Students will find this a delicious way to practice finding the sum of three single-digit numbers. In this subtraction game, the teacher says a number between 1 and 19 and teams of students think of subtraction problems with that number as the answer.