Includes: a note-taking poster
Focus: explicitly teaching students note-taking skills
Use the Partner ping-pong activity from The Oral Language Book (page 41) to support students to generate ideas or vocabulary on a topic.
Instructions:
In pairs, students have turns at saying one thing each. They continue until one person cannot think of a new idea.
Topics could include:
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Includes: a note-taking poster
Focus: explicitly teaching students note-taking skills
Focus: poetry writing
Includes: a printable Define it template
Focus: developing understanding of new words