I did this activity with a student and one of their classes. We picked Government, he has a hard time learning the words the teacher gives them. I got the list and we looked at the words. The student studied them for a while and we went over them again. I marked the words he had trouble with and did not understand.
I went off the template that was in the book, but i only used three columns. The first column we put the word,the second column I had him look up the word and put the definition. Then in the third column I had him wright a sentence. After he was done we went over the words again. He had a better understanding of the vocabulary words. We also made shure he could pronuce them correctly.
With this activity I think it helped more because he wrote the word down. It helped him because he seen it visualy and not just saying them.
This looks like a really good activity. I think it helps the students more to write the words down and not just say them. It reinforces the meaning of the word as well as the correct spelling.
I actually did this similar activity with my 4th graders last year. I just had them draw a picture of the use of the word in the last column instead. The kids loved to do it instead of just writing and writing sentence after sentence of each word. Plus, the kids loved comparing picture they came up with for the words. :)
I think it helps the students more to write the words down and not just say them. It reinforces the meaning of the word as well as the correct spelling. this is a great way to learn.
this sounds like a very good way to help a student with vocab or spelling for that matter. Some of the words we take for granted that we know what they mean is sometimes a shock that the kids don't know what they mean too.
This is a great resource that can be adapted for any subject and any age group. Preschoolers and kindergarteners can use it to learn letters and sounds and older kiddos can use it to learn words and meanings.
I think the activity you are doing with the students is very helpful! I also have the opportunity to do a similar activity with my students and it's very helpful as well. The only thing that I do different than you is : the students draw a picture after each word, and than we practice the words for several days and on every Friday we have a test over them.
Form 35 Bingo Game Grid I did this activity with our reading intervention reading group which is comprised of students we serve in SPED. I chose 25 words from a list of words we use in reading drills during intervention. We used several different "bingo" styles to have some variety. The students in this class are at varying levels of reading skills so this was a good drill for all of them since some of the word were longer than sight words listed.
I noticed the Spanish speaking were kids helping the weaker readers who were also Spanish speaking by pronouncing a word in Spanish for them when they seemed not to understand.
I also used the words in a short sentence when calling them out to help the students understand the use of the word. I also used several different "bingo card" styles such as straight bingo, four leaf clover, picture frame and cross (straight and diagonal). All the students enjoyed the game and I feel like it was a useful tool in helping them with their reading skills.
This seems like a really fun activity. Whenever you can get a kid to like learning through fun and games it seems that the material sticks with them better. I also liked how the Spanish kids were venturing out and helping other lower learners. I am very interested in trying this with a student.
It sounds like you and your students had fun with this activity. I liked how the spanish speeking kids helped the other kids. It sounds like they learned alott from it too. Its good that you used it in a sentence so they could understand it better.
I agree with you the spanish kids do enjoy themselves when they help other kids. My one student enjoys when we play bingo cause it gives her time to practice saying the words.
What a great way to help teach...and fun too. I like how you used the words being taught in a sentence so they were also learning the meaning of it. May steal that one day. Thanks.
Bingo is a fantastic game that can be modified to suit whatever the subject. This is great when you have a group of kids you're working with and they love it. I use bingo when working on sounds and words.
All these ideas are great. Personally I like the memory match game, my students love to play that game! While the student is looking for he picture he/she also is practicing on pronouncing the word that is on the card that is flipped over.
Magnetic Letters: When I was student teaching, my supporting teacher always had her 1st grade students using magnetic letters, blends, beginning and ending sounds. Her students loved using these. They were hands on and they got to interact with each other.
I specifically worked with one student who continually struggled with reading, his blends, and ending sounds. We made up games and activities for him that I did with him with the magnetic letters. When reading a book, we used the magnetic letters as tools to help him remember what those certain sounds made. By the time I was completely done with student teaching, this kid made so much progress, and he was finally up at the beginning level of an actual first grader when he could barely read when I first started with him. It took patience but the reward was soo great when you could see him smile after reading just one simple sentence.
This sounds like a good activity for younger students, you get good hands on with the child. They seam to enjoy working with the letters. I think they learn more too because they actually interact with the teacher.
What a fun story of success you shared! Reading opens up a whole new world to everyone. It can take us places that we may never get to actually see or visit but we can go there in our minds through the words we read. If we can teach one to read the possibilities are endless.
It's good when you can use manipulatives that the students can touch and experiment with. We had playdough out the other day and used it to make letters and words.
What a great success story! It just goes to show that persistance pays off. I can see the smiles on your face and the students after reading that sentence.
This activity also makes it more fun with the kids and when they are having fun I noticed that they are more focused and learn more. They think they are playing a game, but they are learning in the process!
We have used several different things to keep them going like they have a new thing everyday but we still stay on the routine chips, coins, magnets, etc most of the time they have fun and think we are playing games but they do learn its nice
I like this method Courtney. I think any type of "hands on" aids we can use helps to reinforce the learning process. Magnetic letters are fun and colorful and this helps to hold their attention.
I have used a "Flip Chart" with several students. Blending consonant with an ending or an ending sound with the beginning to make new words. The kids all love to do this and that is half the battle. You just have to find something the kids like to do. make it fun.
I agree that it needs to be fun, especially in the lower grades. Also a lot of movement. When students sit in one place for too long, they can be easily distractable.
I agree with you Deb that when working with kids finding something that they like to do helps them to "buy in" to what they are learning. Finding new and different ways to present and practice material will keep kids learning.
Memory Match he really enjoyes doing this at first he stuggles but after 3 times he gets it. I also use pictures like under the house and over the house. Well my kid struggles a bit at first but he eventually does it will out being told,
Memory Match is fun for them & this I think is the key. Making it fun while learning at the same time. Our special ed teacher has alot of board games to play and they love it.
Memory match is a fun game to do but our kids we work with we can only limit as many as about six to eight cards so they don't feel overwhelmed with cards where they have to flip to see them
The student I work with uses sign language to communicate. She struggles with making clear signs with her hands so fine motor skills is what we work on a lot. We use several different variations of the Forms mentioned but the one used most is flash cards. I show a picture of something & she shows me the correct sign. Music is a great way to teach sounds & the student does that with our Music Therapist once a week. Our team has noticed that this student is making an effort to be more vocal & use sign language to express herself better instead of hollering & yelling all the time. We still have days with behavior issues but we are making progress. It takes persistance, patience & even prayer on a day to day basis. Love my job...especially on the days when the light bulb comes on & the smile of success is from ear to ear.
I love that you use flash cards for her sign. It can be hard when their hands don't always want to work. I work with some fine motor activities and it takes time but it pays off. I like to sign.
I used Form 33--Dolch words. The words are on a key ring and we will go through them when there is time. She can zip right through most of them now, but at the beginning of the year, she struggled. I also tried Form 31--common word families. She was able to do this with ease also. They teach rhyming (or ending sounds) a lot. She came up with some nonsense words, but was able to understand the concept.
I am a big fan of the Dolch word list. As you said, you go over them when you have time. I think the key for many special ed. kids is repetition. The average student needs 9-15 repetitions before they learn something. So you can imagine how many repetitions it takes for special education students to remember something.
**Erica, I also like using the Dolch words they can help the kids learn new words and practice new one’s. Practice makes perfect and this list definitely help them learn words so they can read better.
I have used form 38, the Story Organizer without realizing it. When I am assisting a low vision student, I found it helpful to review with the student about important events, characters, and summerizing the chapter. This helps with reading comprehension. The student does no read aloud, but listens to audio on the computer, I think a certain level of "frustration" is at play because of that. I found that reviewing with the student helps break the frustration level and gives them confidence.
As a former Title One teacher, this chapter was familiar territory for me. Readers must have a "tool-kit" ready and accessible to use when decoding and reading for comprehension. In this "tool-kit" they must have decoding strategies such as phonics and Dolch sight words, vocabulary strategies such as prefixes and suffixes and comprehension strategies such as summarizing, story organizers and background knowledege. A common activity that I have used in the past is Form 34 using basic Dolch sight words. There are also free apps for the iPad such as "Play Sight Words Gr. 1 & 2 and "Sight Words List - Learn to Read Flash Cards & Games". If you simply search "sight words" you will find many free or $.99 choices.
***I worked with a student in the Kindergarten class and I used Form 30. We did lower case and capital letters. We matched lower case to the capital letters with the sounds. It is an easy way to get them to recognize both letter and know the sound in both. Do a few letters at a time and add as he learns them.
This sounds like a good tool for that grade level. It sounds like you have a good understanding of how to utilize this toold to help students learn. Thanks
I really like this chapter because this is alot of things we do with our language kids. I did form 28, story organizer. When we do a story map we have shapes by the parts of a story. Character is a heart because people and animals have hearts. Place is a triangle, Time is a star. For the promble of the story we use a square with a question mark in the middle to mean "what went wrong?" The solution is a circle, how did the story end how was the problem solved. But it really helps them remember the parts of the story and retelling the story. For our speech kids I did the letter book. We cut our pictures out of magazines with their sounds in it. They really like it and it shows them that their sound is used alot:)
Melissa, You always have good ideas! This does sound like the kids would just Love it. This would really help the visual learners. They wouldn’t only be able to tell the story but actually see what parts are missing or what is wrong with the story. This is a great idea!
Most of my kiddos are preschool and kindergartners, so I use alot of the alphabet activities on a daily basis. We make "sound" books where all the pages have the same sound we are working on and then send them home. Flip charts and alphabet cards are great for drills each day. Once we have worked a couple of days, then we will make games out of the cards like memory or even bingo. We also make up riddles.
The Flip Chart is something we use in 1st grade and even 2nd grade and it helps them to look at the word and know immediately what it is. We use this in the classroom and every week they get a new set of words. Once they get 5 punches they get to put it in a bucket and be in the drawing for a prize. This motivates them to read them every day and eventually get to where they are consistent and can read them without help. This activity is fun and I love that the kids have their own set so they know what they need to practice instead of giving them the test and them not having much practice at all.
Form 40: charting vocabulary I use this method in civics by having the student write the definition, then the definition inntheir own words,next have them write a sentence using the word and draw a picture that represents the word. Since they already use this method in other classes they understand hownto do this. And they use this to study by. And sometimes the teacher willgive them extract credit for going the mile.
I have used a form like the Form 40, Charting New Vocabulary with students in English class. The teacher has made her won sheet that entiails finding the context meaning, the structure, the definition, and then to write a sentence using the vocab word. This tool is really effective in teaching our studdents the roots of the word and what they mean, individually and put together. The students learn to not only the meaning of the word but also how to find the meaning of the parts of the word and to apply meaning through context. Our students struggle at first, but once we do the shet with them for several times, they cath on quite well.
We will give a couple of our kids some cards that have some sounds on them and they will play a game of memory match. My supervisor also gave one of the sped kids some index cards with sight words written on them and he practices them too.
Letter Book: I have been working with a student with this kind of books. We create pictures and letters. The letters are related to the letter that we want the students to learn. I always make sure that the student points out the letter and pronounces each one. Sometimes when the student memorizes the picture she/he is able to read without looking at the words,
Form 40, charting New Vocabulary:
ReplyDeleteI did this activity with a student and one of their classes. We picked Government, he has a hard time learning the words the teacher gives them. I got the list and we looked at the words. The student studied them for a while and we went over them again. I marked the words he had trouble with and did not understand.
I went off the template that was in the book, but i only used three columns. The first column we put the word,the second column I had him look up the word and put the definition. Then in the third column I had him wright a sentence. After he was done we went over the words again. He had a better understanding of the vocabulary words. We also made shure he could pronuce them correctly.
With this activity I think it helped more because he wrote the word down. It helped him because he seen it visualy and not just saying them.
This looks like a really good activity. I think it helps the students more to write the words down and not just say them. It reinforces the meaning of the word as well as the correct spelling.
DeleteI actually did this similar activity with my 4th graders last year. I just had them draw a picture of the use of the word in the last column instead. The kids loved to do it instead of just writing and writing sentence after sentence of each word. Plus, the kids loved comparing picture they came up with for the words. :)
DeleteI think it helps the students more to write the words down and not just say them. It reinforces the meaning of the word as well as the correct spelling.
Deletethis is a great way to learn.
this sounds like a very good way to help a student with vocab or spelling for that matter. Some of the words we take for granted that we know what they mean is sometimes a shock that the kids don't know what they mean too.
DeleteThis is a great resource that can be adapted for any subject and any age group. Preschoolers and kindergarteners can use it to learn letters and sounds and older kiddos can use it to learn words and meanings.
DeleteI think the activity you are doing with the students is very helpful! I also have the opportunity to do a similar activity with my students and it's very helpful as well. The only thing that I do different than you is : the students draw a picture after each word, and than we practice the words for several days and on every Friday we have a test over them.
DeleteForm 35 Bingo Game Grid
ReplyDeleteI did this activity with our reading intervention reading group which is comprised of students we serve in SPED. I chose 25 words from a list of words we use in reading drills during intervention. We used several different "bingo" styles to have some variety. The students in this class are at varying levels of reading skills so this was a good drill for all of them since some of the word were longer than sight words listed.
I noticed the Spanish speaking were kids helping the weaker readers who were also Spanish speaking by pronouncing a word in Spanish for them when they seemed not to understand.
I also used the words in a short sentence when calling them out to help the students understand the use of the word. I also used several different "bingo card" styles such as straight bingo, four leaf clover, picture frame and cross (straight and diagonal). All the students enjoyed the game and I feel like it was a useful tool in helping them with their reading skills.
This seems like a really fun activity. Whenever you can get a kid to like learning through fun and games it seems that the material sticks with them better. I also liked how the Spanish kids were venturing out and helping other lower learners. I am very interested in trying this with a student.
DeleteIt sounds like you and your students had fun with this activity. I liked how the spanish speeking kids helped the other kids. It sounds like they learned alott from it too. Its good that you used it in a sentence so they could understand it better.
DeleteI agree with you the spanish kids do enjoy themselves when they help other kids. My one student enjoys when we play bingo cause it gives her time to practice saying the words.
DeleteWhat a great way to help teach...and fun too. I like how you used the words being taught in a sentence so they were also learning the meaning of it. May steal that one day. Thanks.
DeleteSounds like a great game for the kids and it seems like you had everyone's attention. I think this is a great way to teach the kids new vocab.
DeleteBingo is a fantastic game that can be modified to suit whatever the subject. This is great when you have a group of kids you're working with and they love it. I use bingo when working on sounds and words.
DeleteHinton is a great way of teaching all of the students at the same time even if they arebat different reading levels.
DeleteAll these ideas are great. Personally I like the memory match game, my students love to play that game! While the student is looking for he picture he/she also is practicing on pronouncing the word that is on the card that is flipped over.
DeleteMagnetic Letters:
ReplyDeleteWhen I was student teaching, my supporting teacher always had her 1st grade students using magnetic letters, blends, beginning and ending sounds. Her students loved using these. They were hands on and they got to interact with each other.
I specifically worked with one student who continually struggled with reading, his blends, and ending sounds. We made up games and activities for him that I did with him with the magnetic letters. When reading a book, we used the magnetic letters as tools to help him remember what those certain sounds made. By the time I was completely done with student teaching, this kid made so much progress, and he was finally up at the beginning level of an actual first grader when he could barely read when I first started with him. It took patience but the reward was soo great when you could see him smile after reading just one simple sentence.
This sounds like a good activity for younger students, you get good hands on with the child. They seam to enjoy working with the letters. I think they learn more too because they actually interact with the teacher.
DeleteI've tried this activity and my kid enjoys how each letter makes a sound and were the sound is. He really likes working with letters.
DeleteWhat a fun story of success you shared! Reading opens up a whole new world to everyone. It can take us places that we may never get to actually see or visit but we can go there in our minds through the words we read. If we can teach one to read the possibilities are endless.
DeleteIt's good when you can use manipulatives that the students can touch and experiment with. We had playdough out the other day and used it to make letters and words.
DeleteWhat a great success story! It just goes to show that persistance pays off. I can see the smiles on your face and the students after reading that sentence.
DeleteThis activity also makes it more fun with the kids and when they are having fun I noticed that they are more focused and learn more. They think they are playing a game, but they are learning in the process!
DeleteWe have used several different things to keep them going like they have a new thing everyday but we still stay on the routine chips, coins, magnets, etc most of the time they have fun and think we are playing games but they do learn its nice
DeleteI like this method Courtney. I think any type of "hands on" aids we can use helps to reinforce the learning process. Magnetic letters are fun and colorful and this helps to hold their attention.
ReplyDeleteI have used a "Flip Chart" with several students. Blending consonant with an ending or an ending sound with the beginning to make new words. The kids all love to do this and that is half the battle. You just have to find something the kids like to do. make it fun.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it needs to be fun, especially in the lower grades. Also a lot of movement. When students sit in one place for too long, they can be easily distractable.
DeleteI agree with you Deb that when working with kids finding something that they like to do helps them to "buy in" to what they are learning. Finding new and different ways to present and practice material will keep kids learning.
DeletePractice makes perfect and I love this way of learning. Kids can read them over and over and eventually be able to read without the struggle.
DeleteI like the flipchart idea using it with prefixes and suffixes. I used this method before and it worked great.
DeleteMemory Match he really enjoyes doing this at first he stuggles but after 3 times he gets it. I also use pictures like under the house and over the house. Well my kid struggles a bit at first but he eventually does it will out being told,
ReplyDeleteMemory Match is fun for them & this I think is the key. Making it fun while learning at the same time. Our special ed teacher has alot of board games to play and they love it.
DeleteI also like memory match we will use the vocab words. The word and the definition. Works great!!
DeleteMemory match is a fun game to do but our kids we work with we can only limit as many as about six to eight cards so they don't feel overwhelmed with cards where they have to flip to see them
DeleteThe student I work with uses sign language to communicate. She struggles with making clear signs with her hands so fine motor skills is what we work on a lot. We use several different variations of the Forms mentioned but the one used most is flash cards. I show a picture of something & she shows me the correct sign. Music is a great way to teach sounds & the student does that with our Music Therapist once a week. Our team has noticed that this student is making an effort to be more vocal & use sign language to express herself better instead of hollering & yelling all the time. We still have days with behavior issues but we are making progress. It takes persistance, patience & even prayer on a day to day basis. Love my job...especially on the days when the light bulb comes on & the smile of success is from ear to ear.
ReplyDeleteI love that you use flash cards for her sign. It can be hard when their hands don't always want to work. I work with some fine motor activities and it takes time but it pays off. I like to sign.
DeleteI used Form 33--Dolch words. The words are on a key ring and we will go through them when there is time. She can zip right through most of them now, but at the beginning of the year, she struggled. I also tried Form 31--common word families. She was able to do this with ease also. They teach rhyming (or ending sounds) a lot. She came up with some nonsense words, but was able to understand the concept.
ReplyDeleteI am a big fan of the Dolch word list. As you said, you go over them when you have time. I think the key for many special ed. kids is repetition. The average student needs 9-15 repetitions before they learn something. So you can imagine how many repetitions it takes for special education students to remember something.
Delete**Erica, I also like using the Dolch words they can help the kids learn new words and practice new one’s. Practice makes perfect and this list definitely help them learn words so they can read better.
DeleteI have used form 38, the Story Organizer without realizing it. When I am assisting a low vision student, I found it helpful to review with the student about important events, characters, and summerizing the chapter. This helps with reading comprehension. The student does no read aloud, but listens to audio on the computer, I think a certain level of "frustration" is at play because of that. I found that reviewing with the student helps break the frustration level and gives them confidence.
ReplyDeleteAs a former Title One teacher, this chapter was familiar territory for me. Readers must have a "tool-kit" ready and accessible to use when decoding and reading for comprehension. In this "tool-kit" they must have decoding strategies such as phonics and Dolch sight words, vocabulary strategies such as prefixes and suffixes and comprehension strategies such as summarizing, story organizers and background knowledege. A common activity that I have used in the past is Form 34 using basic Dolch sight words. There are also free apps for the iPad such as "Play Sight Words Gr. 1 & 2 and "Sight Words List - Learn to Read Flash Cards & Games". If you simply search "sight words" you will find many free or $.99 choices.
ReplyDelete***I worked with a student in the Kindergarten class and I used Form 30. We did lower case and capital letters. We matched lower case to the capital letters with the sounds. It is an easy way to get them to recognize both letter and know the sound in both. Do a few letters at a time and add as he learns them.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a good tool for that grade level. It sounds like you have a good understanding of how to utilize this toold to help students learn. Thanks
DeleteI really like this chapter because this is alot of things we do with our language kids. I did form 28, story organizer. When we do a story map we have shapes by the parts of a story. Character is a heart because people and animals have hearts. Place is a triangle, Time is a star. For the promble of the story we use a square with a question mark in the middle to mean "what went wrong?" The solution is a circle, how did the story end how was the problem solved. But it really helps them remember the parts of the story and retelling the story.
ReplyDeleteFor our speech kids I did the letter book. We cut our pictures out of magazines with their sounds in it. They really like it and it shows them that their sound is used alot:)
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DeleteMelissa,
DeleteYou always have good ideas! This does sound like the kids would just Love it. This would really help the visual learners. They wouldn’t only be able to tell the story but actually see what parts are missing or what is wrong with the story. This is a great idea!
Thank you so much!!!
DeleteMost of my kiddos are preschool and kindergartners, so I use alot of the alphabet activities on a daily basis. We make "sound" books where all the pages have the same sound we are working on and then send them home. Flip charts and alphabet cards are great for drills each day. Once we have worked a couple of days, then we will make games out of the cards like memory or even bingo. We also make up riddles.
ReplyDeleteThe Flip Chart is something we use in 1st grade and even 2nd grade and it helps them to look at the word and know immediately what it is. We use this in the classroom and every week they get a new set of words. Once they get 5 punches they get to put it in a bucket and be in the drawing for a prize. This motivates them to read them every day and eventually get to where they are consistent and can read them without help.
ReplyDeleteThis activity is fun and I love that the kids have their own set so they know what they need to practice instead of giving them the test and them not having much practice at all.
Form 40: charting vocabulary
ReplyDeleteI use this method in civics by having the student write the definition, then the definition inntheir own words,next have them write a sentence using the word and draw a picture that represents the word. Since they already use this method in other classes they understand hownto do this. And they use this to study by. And sometimes the teacher willgive them extract credit for going the mile.
I like how you do your vocab lessons. We do things about lie ya'll do and it proves to be very effective.
DeleteI have used a form like the Form 40, Charting New Vocabulary with students in English class. The teacher has made her won sheet that entiails finding the context meaning, the structure, the definition, and then to write a sentence using the vocab word. This tool is really effective in teaching our studdents the roots of the word and what they mean, individually and put together. The students learn to not only the meaning of the word but also how to find the meaning of the parts of the word and to apply meaning through context. Our students struggle at first, but once we do the shet with them for several times, they cath on quite well.
ReplyDeleteWe will give a couple of our kids some cards that have some sounds on them and they will play a game of memory match. My supervisor also gave one of the sped kids some index cards with sight words written on them and he practices them too.
ReplyDeleteLetter Book:
ReplyDeleteI have been working with a student with this kind of books. We create pictures and letters. The letters are related to the letter that we want the students to learn. I always make sure that the student points out the letter and pronounces each one. Sometimes when the student memorizes the picture she/he is able to read without looking at the words,