Submitted by: Luke Verna, a fifth grade teacher at Upper Perkiomen Middle School in East Greenville, Pennsylvania. If there are more than six vocabulary words, just tape over already defined words and write the new words on top." For example, if a student's left finger lands on a specific word that is the word they must try to define. The words that get chosen can depend on which finger is touching a particular part of the sponge. Have the students toss the sponge around the room to other students. Use a marker to write the vocabulary words on the tape. "To review vocabulary in any subject, take strips of masking tape and tape them to a rectangular sponge. It really helped even the challenged kids learn to recognize the words.īe sure to visit the Worksheet page for additional resources.Ī fun and hands-on approach to helping students review and practice vocabulary words. I put the words on cards with magnets on the back, and in the beginning put them on the board as I say them, but later on they have to recognize the word by calling out alone. There would need to be more words than squares on the sheet (found that out the hard way) and the students choose which words they want to use and paste them wherever they want. (This only happened every 6 weeks or so). They had to cut out the words and put them on their sheet. Summary: Another fun lesson to help challenge all of your students.Įach time we switched readers, I typed up all the vocabulary words in squares, and gave the kids a BINGO sheet. On the overhead I put 20 words, past and present vocab words, they fold their paper into 16 squares, pick 16 of the 20 words-their choice-write one in a square, in random order, and I make a set of cards for myself and use it to call out the words. I also use dry erase lap boards-all of them have one-my purchase-and they will write the word I say from a set of words on the overhead or write the word I give the definition for. I keep the words on a transparency so we review them from week to week. I make word searches for them to find the vocab words in. I also make up sentences with a blank, and give them a word bank to use to complete the sentences. The next day we do it by definition such as please find the word that means _. After they cut them out, they lay them across their desks and I say please find the word _. Before we take the flash cards home, we use them in class to answer questions. For vocabulary words, I always send a word list home to study, and I make flash cards for them (I run off the words on a grid form and they cut them apart) to take home. Summary: Several fun and creative ideas to make vocabulary studying a little more fun. Here's a list of the ten best vocabulary learning tips. Our teaching resources cover levels of English from beginner (A1) through to upper-intermediate (B2).This indicates resources located on The Teacher's Corner. The teaching activities are flexible enough to be easily incorporated into any lesson plan. The resources we offer can be developed into complete lessons, used to introduce or reinforce language, or used for extra practice or revision.
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