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Students will... Use holiday vocabulary (provided below) and regular rules of grammar to increase fluency through dramatic expression and oral interpretation. Learn to relate experiences and observations in the target language. Narrate and post a 140-character Twitter story or Facebook update by sequencing provided phrases and their own original content. 21st Century Skill: Use social media (Facebook or twitter) to communicate and share experiences and feelings in target language Grouping: Teams (Small Groups) and Individuals Modalities: Bodily-Kinesthetic, Verbal-Linguistic, Interpersonal, and Intrapersonal Bloom’s Taxonomy: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, and Evaluation\ Materials Holiday Charades List. Paper and pencils. Timer. Class Twitter or Facebook...

  This week’s game is perfect for the holiday season, especially if you’re looking for a multicultural and multimedia way to add some festive fun to your class. Like last week’s game, it’s also a SSL & ESL adaptation from our new ebook... ESL Games for 21st Century Brains:40 ESL Classroom Games to Teach English thru STEM + Art Students will… Choose a holiday or cultural tradition from their personal or ethnic background and create a three-dimensional clay scene (or sculpture) to represent it. Develop personal and socio-linguistic awareness through the arts, reading, writing, and communicative play. Explore their own...

This week’s Game Day is an SSL & ESL adaptation from our new ebook… ESL Games for 21st Century Brains:40 ESL Classroom Games to Teach English thru STEM + Art Students will… Create an infographic (bar graph) from statistical data of a weekly or 10-day weather forecast. For sample infographics and some tips on how-to create graphs for your class visit www.sube.com/pages/esl-games. 21st Century Skills: Infographics, information literacy, media and technology skills. Modalities: Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Logical-Mathematic, Verbal-Linguistic, and Spatial Bloom’s Taxonomy: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis Grouping: Individual Materials: Graph paper, pencils, and markers. Printed samples of bar graphs, pie charts,...

The Game Building 1, 2, 3 is a fantastic game for adding tactile learning to numbering skills and interpersonal communication. Using blocks and dice, students construct and then describe a variety of different shapes, objects, and buildings. The versions below can be introduced progressively as separate activities or they can be offered as options in learning stations around the room. Children can break up into groups and go from station to station to try out the different versions of the same game. This is a great student-directed team building activity that allows students to explore different learning modalities and skill sets...

The Game & Video Here’s a fun and rhythmic Spanish video for your Halloween or Dia de los Muertos festivities. We’ve also added our own TPR game, instructional video, art project, and optional 21st Century Skills activity.  Simply pick out the elements that’ll get you and your students in the festive mood and make the most of this great learning opportunity. Materials Video Display and Sound Internet Connection Paper Markers and Crayons Preparation Learn the words to the song. We have included the TPR instructions as well. Check out the video below to see what it looks like in action.Lyrics...