Teaching vocabulary, superfun?
Teaching vocabulary in my year seven is all about being creative- or doing it the old fashioned way by writing lists and learning by heart. A lot of my students just aren't very perceptible for anything- all they want to do is chat, play with slime and gloop or have play time. Tempting as it was, I decided I didn't believe copying definitions from the dictionary would be the most effective way of learning for my students (easy and convenient for the teacher as it might be...) and started planning a different way of doing it. However, Halloween was booming around the corner, and we were going to start a story telling topic, focusing on gohst stories. The choice of activity I made was reading and writing gohst stories as a way of learning and using new vocabulary in a motivating and meaning bearing activity for the students- I hoped. Monday morning arrived, I was ready for a full day of gruesome stories in four different groups of students. I had prepared for all eventualiti