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Title: Creative Ideas for Young Learners

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Creative Ideas for Young Learners

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Classroom Supplies

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Language Focus

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Alphabet Pages,Create Supplemental Material

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Make a Book

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Arts Crafts

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Puzzles

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Total Physical Response (TPR)

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Games Songs

Bingo (colours, numbers, shapes, etc.)
Hangman (vocabulary, spelling practice)
Charades (flash cardsadjectives, adverbs, verbs,
jobs, etc.)
Songs (Hokey Pokeyvocabulary for the body, Old
MacDonaldvocabulary for animals, alphabet
songmilitary style)

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Why Teach Using Games?

Games keep life interesting for the students and
the teacher. They allow the students to interact
more with the material and with each other in
real language situations, making class time more
productive and making the material more memorable.

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Myths Realities

Myth It takes too much time to plan and prepare
for games.
Reality It takes a little bit of extra time, but
only in the beginning. Put your students to work.
Often they can do the work in one class hour or
for homework and use the material in the next
hour for the game. After that, recycling is key.
Once you build up a stock of games, you can
modify them for many situations.
Myth Theres too much textbook material to
cover, so theres no time for games.
Reality There is too much textbook material to
cover, but it can be covered at a deeper level
and in a more interesting way through adaptation
to games. Many textbook activities are better
given as homework. Focus on planning games, not
planning homework let the textbook do that for
you.
Myth Its more important for students focus on
grammar drills and mastering certain grammatical
structures.
Reality At the elementary level, its more
important that students have a good experience
with the language and that they learn to be
comfortable speaking.

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Fundamentals of Using Games

Remind students that games still involve learning
write the topic on the board, as well as a
textbook page number. Give homework based on the
game. Make the game part of their learning, not
something outside of it.
Teach students the basic procedures of
game-playing.
a. Explain and demonstrate the game.
b. Have them tell/show you how to play.
c. Each member of the group must participate.
d. Each group will be expected to demonstrate
some aspect of the game.

3. Make sure the games are content-based and that
the students are producing something with the
language. The important thing isnt the game
itself but how the students use the language.
4. Monitor the whole process checking in with
each group once is not enough.
5. Save time at the end of the class hour for a
summary of the topic have groups demonstrate
use of a grammatical structure or word.
6. Noise and chaos are part of group work. The
best way to keep the noise level down is to stay
close to the students by moving from group to
group, checking on their process.

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Ideas For Games

1. Vocabulary
a. Ball (also works for sequences numbers,
days, months, alphabet, etc. also verb
conjugations or tense changes)
b. Bingo (can give words in native language or
give definitions)
c. Charades (works best with verbs)
d. Group races (works best for reviewing
categories of vocabulary)
e. Im going on a picnic ...
2. Grammar mostly verb tenses
a. Tic Tac Toe
b. Five in a Row
c. I Know Everything (for questions)
d. Board game
e. Time game

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Motivation

Games are a good way to motivate students -- use
them more often and find other ways to motivate
students
Sticker charts Reward/penalize students
individually. This works better with younger
students. They get a sticker next to their name
on a chart if they are on time, have complete
homework and arent disruptive in class after 10
stickers they get a little reward stickers, an
eraser, etc. You can do it without stickers and
without material rewards the reward could be
library/reading time, or a special game, or
having class outside.
Points plan Reward/penalize students as a
group. This works better with older students.
Heres an example A class starts with 20 points.
When they reach 250 points, they get to watch a
movie during class time. Write the points on the
board each day (but also keep track of them in a
notebook).