Words-on-the-move #5
October 16th , 2006.
The reading strategy shared is from Active Literacy Across the Curriculum : Strategies for reading, writing, speaking and listening by Heidi Hayes Jacobs
I chose this one because we are close to the testing window for the WKCE. Barton reported in the NASSP Bulletin that 35% of all achievement test errors were fundamental reading errors.
Excerpts from handout.
The Writing strategy is from the Oshkosh conference from the session by Katherine Boldt on Marvelous Magazines. Katherine lists 88 ideas and we added more in small group discussions. Let your mind explode with other possibilities.
Idea 1 = Magnetic poetry use magnetic business cards (sticky-backed magnets) to create magnetic words for student-created poetry & creative stories.
Idea 2 = magnetic letters – cut out big & small letters and adhere to magnetic business cards for spelling, making sight words, & vocabulary study.
Idea 3 = Student authored magazines – students use magazines to help them create their own or classroom created magazines.
Idea 4 = “All about me” collages — great back to school activity!
Idea 5 = Favorites posters/ books – Students find pictures of their favorite books, movies, foods, sports, hairstyles, fonts, etc.
Idea 6 = Desk nameplate – Students find letters to spell their names and or pictures to represent themselves.
Idea 7 = Alphabet fonts – To help students recognize different fonts.
Idea 8 = Class/student alphabet books
Idea 9 = Class/student vowel books
Idea 10 = Flashcards – to help students learn concept in any subject area!
Idea 11= Sight Words – Word Hunts ; Students look for whole sight words in magazines
Idea 12= Sight Words – Collage : Student scut out magazine letters to spell their sight words
Idea 13= Spelling Words – Word Hunts: Students look for their spelling words in magazines
Idea 14=Spelling Word – Collage : Students cut out magazine letters to spell their weekly words
Idea 15= Phonics –Chunking: Students look for word chunks in magazine text
Idea 16=Punctuation Practice: Cut out magazine sentences (minus the punctuation), mount on index cards, and have students decide punctuation & mark on a recording sheet (or laminate & have students write directly on the card).
Idea 17= Antonyms Hunts/Books: Students can either make a poster page of antonyms or make their own mini-books including text & pictures from magazines.
Idea 18= Synonyms Hunts/ Books
Idea 19= Homonyms Hunts/Books
Idea 20=Contractions Hunts/Books
Idea 21= Plurals Hunts/ Books
Idea 22= Prepositions Hunts/Books
Idea 23= Word Family Hunts/Books: Students find the word family ending (i.e. –an) and then cut out letters to paste on flip book pages.
Idea 24=Grammar Hunts: many entences in magazines are actually just fragments/incomplete sentences – students can find & edit/revie these
Idea 25= Short Vowels Hunts/books
Poem “The Cow’s Complaint by Alice Schertle from A Kick in the Head : an Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms seleced by Paul B. Janeczko and illustrated by Chris Raschka.
The Grammar Girl podcast; http://grammar.qdnow.com/.
Thanks to Dan Schmidt from KidCast for inspiring me to try this auditory venture and to Blake Emmy for sharing his music from www.podsafemusic.com
December 12th, 2007 at 11:03 am
Tarab…
Thanks for the nice read, keep up the interesting posts…..