Creative Teacherette

I'm still pretty busy, but yesterday I spent the whole day doing this DIY project for my practicum, so I just wanted to share what I made with you. I had to hold a class to 6th graders and I wanted to amp it up a bit because the topic wasn't very interesting. Therefore, I decided to create these true / false flags for the students to use during a typical true/false activity. I read some statements connected to the text we were working on and they had to raise a "T" flag if a statement was correct and an "F" flag if it was false. They were ecstatic when they saw the flags, so if you have some free time, try spending it on creating them, your students will love you and you'll be able to reuse them for sure. So, you'll need the following: - some long and thick straws in two colors - some paper in two colors - scissors - glue - ruler - markers

Dear all,  In order to say thank you for visiting my blog, I decided to do my first giveaway. I’m really grateful for each and every one of you from all over the world, and I hope that this blog does help you and give you at least a bit of inspiration to be the most creative teachers you can be. The first part of the grand prize for this giveaway is a GRADED READERS book. For those of you who are new to this you can get more information about what graded readers are here . These are great for your classes because you can use them as obligatory readings, do different projects with them, use just parts of them in your classes or just make your students aware of the fact that there are many books they can read in English, even if they have just started learning it.  There are many different publishers of graded readers, but the one I’m giving to you this time is from Oxford Bookworms Club – Silver Edition (Stages 2 and 3)    It includes the ...

I’m sure you all know how the game Scavenger Hunt works and in this post I’ll give you two suggestions for its use in class. Suggestion 1: You can use this game as a form of reading exercise, where your students practice their skimming and scanning skills. What you have to do is prepare different kinds of texts that you will hang around the classroom + make a worksheet with questions. The answers to the questions are, of course, to be found in the texts. Divide your students into teams and let the fastest one win. Make sure to produce questions for which your students will have to go over the text (i.e. don’t ask questions that can be answered by just looking at the title) and that there are many different types of texts. Tourist brochures from the places you have visited can serve as great materials for this game, especially because they are completely authentic. Some of the reading materials for this activity that I made can be found here + questions here . ...

Here is one more idea for interesting language teaching. Today, we're dealing with music, reading, listening, singing and competition. I made this Power Point Presentation for a class that deals with culture of English speaking countries. I chose 10 songs that were number 1 on January 1st on the Billboard Top 100 in the previous century (every ten years, starting from this year) and made a quiz on that topic. This activity is great for checking reading comprehension in a different way than usual. What you should do is the following:  Divide your students into groups and give each group a handout with a song and its short description . They should read it and make notes and try to remember as much as possible. Then they should make new groups in which there will be one student from each initial group, so that in each new group, every student knows something about one song. They should briefly present their songs to each other and then play the game. You shoul...