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Instead of singing the alphabet to the tune everyone knows (and is probably bored with), sing to something completely different! Rock Around the Clock works, but I personally like doing it to a military call-and-response type of chant like the one in the Sing, Dance, Laugh and Eat Tacos/Quiche books. Idea Source: Melissa MB Wilkins | ||
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Blindfold a student and give him/her a letter puzzle piece or cut-out. Ask him/her to identify the letter only by feeling of its shape. Idea source: 100+ More Games for the Foreign Language Classroom Created By: Tina M. Hodge (with ideas from other teachers) Publisher: Carlex | ||
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Pass out vocabulary cards. Call out a letter, and everyone with that letter on their card can cross it out. The first one to cross out all his/her letters wins. Idea source: 100+ More Games for the Foreign Language Classroom Created By: Tina M. Hodge (with ideas from other teachers) Publisher: Carlex | ||
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Do a spelling bee in the target language Idea source: traditional activity | ||
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The leader picks a secret word or phrase and puts blanks on the board corresponding to each letter of the word or phrase. Students take turns guessing letters. Each time a letter is guessed that is in the word, that letter is filled in wherever it occurs. If an incorrect guess is made, a body part is drawn on the gallows (usually it is head, body, arm, arm, leg, leg, hand, hand, foot, foot (or 10 wrong guesses), done in stick figure style. The group wins if they can guess the word or phrase before the body on the gallows is complete. If you don't like the traditional gallows imagery, you can come up with something else that you build or take away piece by piece. Idea source: traditional letter game | ||
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Write the letters of the alphabet on paper plates, one per plate, and pass the plates out to the students. Call out a word, and have the students with the letters needed to spell the words stand in the front, holding their letter plates in front of them for all to see (watch the words you pick -- repeated letters especially could cause problems if you don't plan for them) Idea source: 100+ More Games for the Foreign Language Classroom Created By: Tina M. Hodge (with ideas from other teachers) Publisher: Carlex | ||
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Give students bags of alphabet cereal and have them spell out words the teacher selects on paper plates, napkins, or the like. The teacher checks the spellings and, if correct, the students get to eat their words. Idea source: 100+ More Games for the Foreign Language Classroom Created By: Tina M. Hodge (with ideas from other teachers) Publisher: Carlex | ||
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Make a display-sized American Football field gameboard or a smaller one on transparency film, along with an appropriately-sized football. Divide the class into two teams, and put the football on the 50-yard line. Ask a member of one team to spell a given vocabulary word. If the student gets it right, the ball moves towards his/her team goal 10 yards. If the spelling is not correct, the ball goes backwards 10 yards. The first team to ger to the goal line gets a touchdown point. Idea source: 100+ More Games for the Foreign Language Classroom Created By: Tina M. Hodge (with ideas from other teachers) Publisher: Carlex |
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