English Language ARts
During my student teaching I had students make friendship cinquains in February and Limericks in March. The cinquains had a social component to them because they had to interview a classmate to create the cinquain about them.
The Limericks were surprisingly challenging for these students. Some of them were stuck on the creativity part but most of them were held up by the pattern of the Limerick itself. We worked really hard together so that they could meet the objective. Eventually they “got it” and they ended up writing some very funny Limericks.
My favorite ELA lesson is “Prefix Bingo.” I made 25 individual BINGO cards with root words that students have to add a prefix to to make into a new word with an altered meaning (because of the prefix). We roll the dice to determine which prefix we can add: in, un, re, or dis. The word they make has to be a real English word. Five in a row makes BINGO. Students enjoy this lesson because of the competition with their classmates and the challenge of figuring out what words are real English words. They find themselves asking, “…is it un-justice or injustice?” Artifacts of completed BINGO cards are at the bottom of this page.
More ELA instruction information can be found on my Classroom Management page: /classroom-management.html
The Limericks were surprisingly challenging for these students. Some of them were stuck on the creativity part but most of them were held up by the pattern of the Limerick itself. We worked really hard together so that they could meet the objective. Eventually they “got it” and they ended up writing some very funny Limericks.
My favorite ELA lesson is “Prefix Bingo.” I made 25 individual BINGO cards with root words that students have to add a prefix to to make into a new word with an altered meaning (because of the prefix). We roll the dice to determine which prefix we can add: in, un, re, or dis. The word they make has to be a real English word. Five in a row makes BINGO. Students enjoy this lesson because of the competition with their classmates and the challenge of figuring out what words are real English words. They find themselves asking, “…is it un-justice or injustice?” Artifacts of completed BINGO cards are at the bottom of this page.
More ELA instruction information can be found on my Classroom Management page: /classroom-management.html