[ Post a Response | Games, Thematic Units, and Class Lessons ]
Posted by jtm on 9/23/2005, 2:21 pm, in reply to "Re: activities for older school children" I teach high school as well and it can definitely be tough. I try to use games as much as possible to keep the kids interested. If you have a specific task that you want to start with (like a reading comp passage), try to have the promise of a fun game afterwards. Some of the commercial games I use the most are Connect Four, Uno, Jenga, and Apples to Apples. You can adapt these games to work on all types of goals (e.g., having the kids define or say a target artic or vocab word in sentence and then take a turn). I also make up Jeopardy boards and have categories such as synonyms, antonyms, multiple meaning words, and problem solving for them to work on. If you use books such as the HELP series, photocopy pages and then cut out individual questions into strips. Write various point values at the bottom and fold the paper strips. Put them in a cup or box and have the kids take turns drawing different questions to answer. The students love to compete with one another. Other materials to try include newspaper and magazine articles meant for young adults. The kids also love coming up with questions and interviewing one another- a great task for fluency, pragmatics, and artic. Hope this gets you started!
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I just posted this on another board. Hope is helps:
Posted by jtm on 9/23/2005, 2:12 pm, in reply to "High school"
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