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| Title | Ideas for Teaching Clothing, Part 2 |
| Body | Last week’s InterCom included ideas for teaching clothing from several Improving Early Language Programs listserv subscribers. Here are more ideas: --- Every day now, I start out the lesson by putting up pictures of the clothing items on the white board. Then I put the wrong labels for each picture. (I made the labels with sentence strips and then cut them apart) I ask students to make the necessary corrections. It takes anywhere from 5 to 7 minutes of our class time. (I also have a 40-minute class) Now that they have some vocabulary I am assigning projects. One is to make a drawing of a person wearing different items of clothing that we have learned. The trick is...they write the word over and over again to form the outline of the item of clothing. For example, the outline of the skirt would say "faldafaldafaldafalda". I got this idea from Helena Curtain and Carol Ann Dahlberg's book--Languages and Children, Making the Match. Next week the students will make posters of clothing by cutting out pictures of clothing from magazines and labeling the items that they found. I am going to give each pair of students a "shopping list" of clothing items to find. Also..the suitcase idea is great! I just went to our thrift store to buy up some large clothing. I am going to bring it in and have a clothing race (another idea from Languages and Children...) I think I'll use 2 suitcases with the various items of clothing in them. I'll call out 2 or 3 items, and 1 person from each team races up to put on the items called out. I also saw this on www.sparkenthusiasm.com . Frisch, R. Re: [nandu] Introducing Clothing in Spanish. Improving Early Language Programs listserv (nandu@caltalk.cal.org, 2 Mar 2009). --- The book Languages and Children: Making the Match by Helena Curtain and Carol Ann Dahlberg and published by Pearson is viewed by many elementary teachers as essential reading. Here is the description from the publisher’s website: Provides the rationale, strategies and activities for developing early language literacy, helping teachers make the connection between first and second language literacy and encouraging them to integrate the written word even at early points in language development. Offers strategies for interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes of communication as well as helpful ideas about classroom activities, assessment, and thematic planning that will revitalize their teaching. Visit the publisher’s website at http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/Bookshop/detail.asp?item=100000000112326 . --- The Spark Enthusiasm website at http://sparkenthusiasm.com has a wealth of teaching resources and ideas. --- We used to design an outfit and bring it in for another student to wear but this year we had a mother get upset about her son wearing someone else's clothing. Instead, you wore what you brought in as a costume and had another student ( I picked the student) read the description. This way everyone got to practice a reading and being a model. You pointed to the article of clothing as it was being read. It went very well. Eckstein, L. RE:[nandu] nandu digest: March 01, 2009. Improving Early Language Programs listserv (nandu@caltalk.cal.org, 4 Mar 2009). --- Read more ideas for teaching clothing in next week’s InterCom! |
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