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10 Engaging Ways to Teach Grammar in the Classroom
If you mention ‘grammar’ and your students groan, there’s something wrong. Yes, English can be difficult, full of rules to remember, but that doesn’t mean the teaching of it has to be boring.
With a little creativity, you can plan grammar lessons that are enjoyable, engaging, and, dare I say it, fun.
Check out these ten actionable ideas that will transform your lessons, making grammar the highlight of your teaching week.
- Helly Douglas -
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20 Grammar Activities to Use in the Classroom
Teaching grammar to your students doesn’t have to be a tedious task. Let’s face it head-on and make it fun with 20 grammar activities to use in the classroom.
- Alison Smith -
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How to Teach Grammar Online
Moving grammar into a digital format can certainly have its challenges. You are no doubt continuing to see students making errors (have you been cringing at some of the emails they're sending you?), so here are some strategies that you can use to make this transition easier.
- Presto Plans -
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Digital Storytelling Lesson Ideas with Book Creator
Digital storytelling is more than stories that start with “once upon a time.” It’s all about using multimedia to capture the story of students’ learning. Book Creator is a powerful tool for digital storytelling lesson integration.
- Monica Burns -
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Ideas for Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum
Digital storytelling provides a great way for engaging students in the curriculum while building creativity, communication, and critical thinking. These lessons are a great way to get started.
- Tech4Learning, Inc. -
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10 Inspirational Storytelling Ideas for the Classroom
Use these 10 fun and creative ideas o spark imaginations and encourage a love of storytelling.
- Alison Smith -
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5 Interactive World Language Activities for Remote and Socially-Distanced Classrooms
Whether you teach English, Malay, Mandarin, or any other world language, you probably rely on interactive world language activities, including games, songs, and manipulatives to keep your students engaged.
Here are 5 interactive world language activities to keep your language students engaged during remote learning or in a physically distanced classroom.
- Kelly Burch -
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Learn Languages with Music Videos, Lyrics, and Karaoke!
LyricsTraining is the new way to learn English and other languages through music and the lyrics of your favourite songs. From pop songs to children's music, improve and practise your students' listening skills with the best music videos. Fill in the gaps to the lyrics as they listen and sing Karaoke to their favourites.
- LyricsTraining.com -
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Creative Storytelling Classroom Activity
A story telling game gives students an opportunity to be creative in thinking of, and developing, a story, while also ensuring that students are encouraged to listen to each other.
It could be used as free practice for the narrative tenses for intermediate and upper-intermediate students, or as an ice breaker for higher levels.
- Mike Astbury -
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Printable Story Cards that Fuel Your Kids' Creativity and Communication Skills
Looking for a fun way to fuel your kids' creativity and communication skills? These 30 story starters will stretch their imaginations and help them spin yarns worth weaving!
- KiwiCo, Inc. -
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Creative Video Project Ideas for Students
Video projects are a great way to engage younger students for longer stints. If a video is produced by their peers, interest will skyrocket. Video projects also offer a new way for students to explore their creative side. Here are some of our favorite creative video project ideas.
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How to Use Hand Puppets to Teach Children Social and Communication Skills
Puppets are engaging toys that can help support oral language skills and communication, social/emotional development, and help children learn and understand the world around them through safe, imaginative play.
- STURGEONL -
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10 Ways to Cultivate a Love of Reading in Students
Ten suggestions for how any teacher, teaching any subject can participate in this mission, and how parents and administrators can help.
- Edutopia -
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Fun Activities That Help Develop Language Learning in Children
This website discusses 8 language activities that can be incorporated into lessons to make learning languages more fun.
- British Council Malaysia -
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6 Activities for Generating Enthusiasm in the Foreign Language Classroom
This article provides games and activities in classrooms that can help generate enthusiasm to learn foreign languages.
- The Internet TESL Journal -
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Engaging World Language Students Through Social Media
This blog talks about a Spanish teacher's successful experiences in integrating social media and Spanish language learning, specifically using Instagram Scavenger Hunts, Facebook Global Journalism and YouTube Cooking Videos.
- Education Week (Kaitlyn E. Thomas) -
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25 Tips for a More Successful and Fun World Language Class
The article gives tips on how to make learning languages in a classroom setting more successful and fun. These tips can be both applied to the teachers and classroom activities.
- Calico Spanish -
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10 Ways of Using Games to Learn and Teach Chinese
Games have great potential for learning in general and language acquisition in particular. There are many reasons to use games for learning and teaching Chinese, such as increasing motivation, having fun, focusing on function over form, creating a controlled environment for communication and making the learner more active.
- Olle Linge -
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How We Teach Chinese
At Avondale each child from Preschool to Middle school enjoys a daily language lesson from a dedicated teacher. Recent results in the HSK exams indicate how effective the Avondale Chinese programme is.
- Avondale Grammar School Singapore -
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Best Bahasa Melayu Apps for Kids to Pick Up Malay Language Quickly
Play is one way that you can use to encourage children in learning languages. There are many benefits to learning a language using apps used on smartphones such as iPhone, Android, etc.
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Making Malay Meaningful for Students
Step into Mr Aidil Subhan’s classroom and you may see pupils trying to figure out how to make a hot drink of Ovaltine, or how to cook a packet of instant noodles. These food wrappers and drink packets are his “textbooks” – the materials he uses to introduce the Malay language to his students.
- SingTeach -
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Tips to Teach Suku Kata for Preschoolers
Cikgu Noorlyza shares some games that can be played while teaching suku kata to preschoolers.
- chekgunoorlyza -
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