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| Title | Ideas for Using Sentence Strips: Part 1 |
| Body | Here are some ideas for using write-on wipe-off sentence strips by FLTEACH users: If you had a short narration (5-10 sentences long), you could put a sentence or two on each strip and have the students order them to get them looking for transitions or logical sequencing in Spanish. If you cut the strips into word-length strips, you could give verbs in the preterite and imperfect and have groups choose five (ten, fifteen, three...) and use them in a past-tense narration they will write as a group. If they have magnetic backing, and you have something that they could put them on, you could put vocab from each chapter on them and then have them sort them into categories you've selected...or, leave them blank, and have them fill the strips in with the vocab. from their list that fits each category: for instance, in a section on classrooms, you might have: "Para escribir" (to write), "Muebles" (furniture), Para hacer tareas" (for doing homework)... This is a nice first-step to circumlocution. You can also cut them into shorter and longer strips: on the longer strips you write a definition for a new vocab word from their list, and then they have to write in what word is being defined on a short strip. As a next step, you can have groups write definitions on the long strips and then other groups in the class have to read their definitions and write down what word(s) is/are being defined on the shorter strips. You can have each of them write a (very!) brief self-description on the strips and then collect them and read them out loud to see if they can identify who is being described (they aren't allowed to identify themselves). You can tape a bunch of pictures around the room and have them describe one or two of them (one per strip) and then have them pass their description to a partner who will correct grammar and then read the description to see if the class can identify the image described (it works just as well for pictures of weather phenomena as for people as for geographical features ...). It's a good number review if you number each image: choose random numbers for the pix: 13, 101, 76, 564... Waid, A. Re: Request for creative ideas with sentence strips. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 6 Jul 2007). --- I use them each year to introduce verb conjugation to my beginning classes. I write out the pronouns, the infinitives and the endings and mix them up on the board. I attach them with stick-on magnets or tape. I then pull out an infinitive and ask the class what it means. I make sure they give it to me in the "to" form. Then we pick a pronoun. I want to make sure they know that it doesn't make sense to say "I to swim" but that we have to "drop" the ending. So I take a big pair of scissors and cut off the ending and let it drop to the floor. I do this almost every day for a couple of weeks and let the kids do the cutting, dropping and matching. I try not to spend more than five minutes a day on it (although you will need more time the first day you introduce it.) I understand that you may not want to use the expensive write on/wipe off sentence strip. I use the cheaper tagstock kind or sometimes just cut up construction paper. Popko, G. Re: Request for creative ideas with sentence strips. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 6 Jul 2007). More ideas for using sentence strips will be in next week’s InterCom. |
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