3) What supplementary material could you add to your lessons that could help students master the language and content objectives? Ideally, I would have access to stores or an established home where I have ‘things’ to bring in to make lessons relevant. Often times I have a lesson that I know would be much more fun and meaningful if I had a particular object to punctuate the lesson, but our location makes it difficult, especially for those last minute ideas. My absolute preference is to use realia to increase comprehension of the content objective. I will often times show my students pictures from a book or have them gather around my computer screen to see an example of what we are talking about. I look forward to using the smart board in my classroom. It will be awesome to show pictures from the internet on a large screen. It is always interesting to hear what they think something is and then hear their reaction after they see the real thing. i.e. Stoplight, basement. I do find that when we are reading, we stop frequently to clarify words. It can take awhile but I think it pays off to take the time to let students share how they relate to the new word. It is right in line with the, ‘text to self’ comprehension strategy.
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ReplyDelete3) What supplementary material could you add to your lessons that could help students master the language and content objectives? Ideally, I would have access to stores or an established home where I have ‘things’ to bring in to make lessons relevant. Often times I have a lesson that I know would be much more fun and meaningful if I had a particular object to punctuate the lesson, but our location makes it difficult, especially for those last minute ideas. My absolute preference is to use realia to increase comprehension of the content objective.
I will often times show my students pictures from a book or have them gather around my computer screen to see an example of what we are talking about. I look forward to using the smart board in my classroom. It will be awesome to show pictures from the internet on a large screen.
It is always interesting to hear what they think something is and then hear their reaction after they see the real thing. i.e. Stoplight, basement. I do find that when we are reading, we stop frequently to clarify words. It can take awhile but I think it pays off to take the time to let students share how they relate to the new word. It is right in line with the, ‘text to self’ comprehension strategy.