Eliza, What do you do with the stories when they're written? Do kids share them? Do they act them out? Other ideas? Thanks, Troy Troy Longstroth Spanish and Outdoor Recreation Teacher *Redmond Proficiency Academy* www.rpacademy.org cell: 541-977-3143 On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 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. > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:32 PM, ALISSA FARIAS <AFARIAS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> Thanks! I can see using this as a quick activity with sharing between >> partners, exit slip etc. >> >> >> >> *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 >> >> >> >> I like this writing activity. A “cadena” word is a word like “because” >> or although.” I challenge them to make longer, more interesting sentences. >> >> >> >> *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 >> >> >> >> 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? >> >> >> >> *Alissa Farias, NB* >> >> *LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL* >> >> *Spanish Teacher* >> >> *Daffodil Coordinator* >> >> *YLC Teacher Coach* >> >> >> > > > > -- > > Eliza Pfeifer > > Spanish Instructor | St. Mary’s Academy > > _________________________________ > > 4545 S. University Blvd., Englewood, CO 80113 > > 303.762.8300 x 393 | fax: 303.783.6201 | epfeifer@xxxxxxxxxx > <jwimbish@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > > > >