Ideas for Practicing Grammar
Friday, November 07, 2014
In the midst of searching materials to read, I found this video. The video showcased 9 ways of teaching grammar based on a textbook. I am unsure of the textbook but the ideas presented are practical to be used in TnL activities.
I made a list of the 9 activities and detail out the steps in executing them. I hope you find it useful.
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Mistakes
a. Write a sentence with a mistake.
b.
Get the pupils to identify the mistake.
Slowly revealing
a.
Get children to think about word order.
b.
Reveal word by word and solicit next word from
pupils.
What’s missing?
a.
b. Then pupils close their eyes, teacher take out the words and ask them to identify the missing words.
What’s wrong?
a.
Ask the pupils to close their eyes, switch the
cards and let pupils to identify whats wrong
Finish the sentence
a.
Teacher write the starter for a sentence, e.g. I
read… and encourage pupils to finish the sentence. This helps pupils to
understand how a sentence can go together.
Order the words
a.
Teacher writes a question then draws the lines
for the answers based on the number of words and include a line for the
punctuation as well.
b.
Teacher prepared words to be rearrange in cards.
c. Pupils rearrange the words to make a sentence.
Whats number one?
a.
Almost similar to the activity above only pupils
put the words not in sequence.
b. Pupils identify words to be put into numbered
lines randomly.
Arrow game
a.
Paste a picture.
b.
Then pupils arrange the word cards based on the
lines drawn by the teacher.
c.
For e.g. What is it? Then for the answer (teacher
don't have another word card for the word it, so teacher ask the pupils to use an
arrow to show the placement of the word it in the answer.
Good opportunity to highlight punctuation
Describe an animal
a.
E.g. describing a dinosaur
b.
Teacher provides sentence pattern to describe the
dinosaur.
c. Teacher shows another animal picture and ask
the pupils to change the sentence patterns to describe the new animal.
Give it a try!
(sorry about the alignment of the words, did it on words and copied to here and....)
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