Monday, March 29, 2010
Chapter 6
I like the part where it says in this chapter that we need to provide structured opportunities to practice using the language. It also says, students learning English need to opportunities to practice using the academic language. When doing so, it has to be meaningful to the English learners. We are learning, to me it was going to be a very simple lesson on clock. Only to the hour and half hour. The students had to learn what it is when it's 1:00 and then when it's 1:30. In order for them to show 1:30, they had to learn the word in between 1 and 2. They had learned that when we were learning what number is before, after and in between. Of course they got it, all they needed was a little review on the vocabulary words.
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Fannie,
ReplyDeleteGreat posting, I liked your example about telling time, a very relevant application of numbers and words like "after" and "before."
Did you do this as a whole class, or groups? If so, what kind of groups did you organize? Pairs, small group?
Thanks for posting your reflection!
Maria
When we did this activity, we did small groups. They had to tell the group where the short hand is for example when the time show 1:30, they tell the group "the short hand is in between 1 and 2. The vocabulary words helped the students learn how to tell and read time more quickly and it made sense to them.
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