[ola] Re: vocab recycle

  • From: Sarah Powell <sarahjeanpowell@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:32:23 -0800

My NM students are just starting with the past tense. We wrote sentences on
scrap paper (with the past tenses as a goal), passed the paper in the
circle, wrote the next sentence, folded the paper so the first couldn't be
seen and so forth. Hilarious.
On Nov 5, 2014 1:47 PM, "Eliza Pfeifer" <epfeifer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Related word stories have come out great this year.
>
> In groups of 2 or 3 if necessary, the first student writes down a
> vocabulary word.  The next one writes down a related word, passes the
> notebook back to student one who writes down another related word.  I stop
> them about 2 minutes or so. They generally have 6 to 10 vocab words.  I
> then have them write a story.  The first vocab word is in the first line
> and then the second line of the sentence has the second vocab word and so
> on.  These end up being rather good because the flow of the vocab is
> natural and not contrived.
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> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:32 PM, ALISSA FARIAS <AFARIAS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> Thanks! I can see using this as a quick activity with sharing between
>> partners, exit slip etc.
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>> *From:* ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
>> Behalf Of *Martin Kathryn
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 05, 2014 12:33 PM
>> *To:* ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> *Subject:* [ola] Re: vocab recycle
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>> I like this writing activity.  A “cadena” word is a word like “because”
>> or although.”  I challenge them to make longer, more interesting sentences.
>>
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>> *From:* ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
>> Behalf Of *ALISSA FARIAS
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 05, 2014 12:10 PM
>> *To:* ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> *Subject:* [ola] vocab recycle
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>> Hey! My Spanish classes have a great list of vocab they have created
>> since school began. I’m looking for new ways to continue to recycle the
>> language. They are NH-IM levels. I’m trying to stay away from just vocab
>> activities/games but am wanting them to work on extended sentences,
>> conversations, commenting on fotos/graphs and so on. What things do the
>> rest do?
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>> *Alissa Farias, NB*
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>> *LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL*
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>> *Spanish Teacher*
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