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[Michael_75]

So I have been told that my Advanced Class is restarting from the week after next. Last term was a nightmare with grade 5 and 6 students refusing to work or even show up in some cases. Last term I had Backpack 4 and 5 to use, along with the workbook from Backpack 5. This was just about sufficient to stretch out over the term with one 2 hour class and two 40 minute classes per week.

This term I have grade 3 and 4 students. I have them for 6 full hours per week, 2 hours per day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. I have only Backpack 3 (no workbook or CD) to use for the classes. The teacher in charge has also given me a book that provides a guide on how to use storybooks, but hasn't provided the storybooks... I also have a guide on making books but with the amount of materials required for each one I doubt the school will pay, and I doubt I will have the time/enthusiasm to arrange everything every week.

So basically does anybody have any ideas to cover 17/18 weeks of lessons, 6 hours each time. How I'm going to get them to concentrate for that long I don't know. With that in mind I would like some kind of project work to occupy them for hours at a time.

Thanks in advance.

[ddeubel]

Michael,

Right off the bat, I'd suggest using some extensive reading magic. Get them reading level appropriate books and sharing them through either

1) glossing (writing the Korea vocab words that are difficult in the right margin for other readers)
2) writing book reports or keeping a reading journal
3) sharing a literature circle and each student describing their reading and taking questions.

You can get hundreds of different leveled books on EFL Classroom + a lot of leveled audio books too. Go to Stories under STUDY.

More suggestions later,

DD
http://eflclassroom.ning.com

[Michael_75]

Thanks, if the school agrees to pay your membership fee then I'll try to incorporate it.

Do you recommend any other websites?

[Straphanger]

[ddeubel]