Discussion #2

Discussion #2
What is important when designing writing activity?
First of all the activity should be appropriate to the age level and sts English level. Secondly, the writing activity should be interesting, involving fun and movement as well. When I pre teach vocabulary to teenagers I usually let them guess the meaning from the context and I almost always make cards with the new vocab words and others with their definitions, and I give them to match. They usually find the right match, before we go thru it together. We do activities like they rate the words from easy to difficult, giving numbers from 1-10 and we have a Vocab Board where we stick the new words. Last year we made a big paper tree, we put it on the wall, and on the leaves we wrote all the new words we learned that semestar.
With young learners, writing activities must be fun and entertaining or they easily get bored. They can write with sticks, glue them on the paper in the shape od the word, the enjoy writing with chslk outside on the playground, we use dough, we use stones, each stone a letter, they love it. The possibilities are endless.... What is important is the joy they have while learning because young learners learn affectively and effectively through play!

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  1. Marwa TounsiMay 6, 2016 at 5:14 AM

    Great Renata! It's interesting to pre-teach  the vocabulary beforegetting the students engaged in  writing. I think this is motivating and it fosters learning and writing. They won't feel blocked or frustrated to come up with the needed vocabulary. Do you have a picture of the tree I loved the idea very much AND I consider "planting" the same tree in my class too :)

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  2. Carolina Brenes BurgosMay 6, 2016 at 7:16 AM

    Marwa Tounsi beat me to the punch! I was just about to ask the same thing! The tree of vocabulary sounds very cool! Please share a picture

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  3. Juan UribeMay 9, 2016 at 1:04 PM

    Renata,

    You are very right when you say that affective is effective!
    You have surely promoted student-centered learning by having them guess, move, and match the cards. The activity for the younger students is pure joy!

    These are classes to remember!

    Juan

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  4. Renata TodorovskaMay 10, 2016 at 1:05 AM

    Thank you Juan!!!
    Carolina and Marwa, unfortunately I do not have a picture of the tree now here in Turkey :( Sorry...

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