Providing a variety of stimuli and prompts that are interesting, inspiring and relevant to learners is essential for making visual journals expressive, creative and meaningful. Students will gain practice in family and occupational vocabulary words through and enjoyable activity. They will practice writing, recognizing, and saying each word while participating in a large or small group. Write the words on the board. The teacher calls the first game.
Winners call all others.
Students are assigned to look for more family vocabulary words and bring them to the class to introduce those words to others twice a week. Play vocabulary bingo with those words they bring in themselves. Write short stories about their family members by using those vocabulary words. Students will be able to learn about their ancestry through genealogy by the use of a family tree. Students will also gain computer skills using a family tree program.