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hakwonner
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 Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:20 pm Post subject: 2 young kids... beginners. Game ideas? |
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As the title suggests, I have a class with 2 young boys who are literally just learning the alphabet and starting to read basic words. Any ideas on fun games to play with them?
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:42 pm Post subject: Re: 2 young kids... beginners. Game ideas? |
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| hakwonner wrote: |
As the title suggests, I have a class with 2 young boys who are literally just learning the alphabet and starting to read basic words. Any ideas on fun games to play with them?
Any help appreciated |
Depending on what facilities you have available:
See, sing, say, do... action / activity based learning (not necessarily games) to help build a functional classroom vocabulary.
Learn the ABC song (pick some of the more fun versions), then the usual run of Simon says type games for body parts and classroom nouns (point to the window, point to the door, point to the ceiling, point to the floor). There is always, "I see with my little eye something that starts with ....".
A quick google will bring up tons of easy stuff that you can do with no resources and if you have access to multi-media (got a laptop?) then you can add youtube as well.
Also, have you looked through the "Idea Cookbook" here on Dave's for ideas that you can modify to make appropriate for your young learners?
http://www.eslcafe.com/ideas/
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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For each short vowel, you can make a deck of cards and/or a bingo game set.
For each CVC word, you can find an illustration through a Google search.
For example, the games for the short A sound could contain bad, dad, mad, sad, bag, hag, and rag.
You can also purchase or handmake a set of letters on cards.
The children can manipulate those cards to spell words.
When I have a class of beginners, I make a lesson out of each set of rhyming words.
For example one lesson is on bad, dad, lad, mad, pad, and sad. |
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ddeubel
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