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Classroom Activities

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Hold Ups

The purpose of this activity is to build recall of key or target vocabulary at sentence level, to build confidence in learners…

Inside/Outside Circles

This cooperative learning strategy actively engages students as they work with multiple partners to ask and answer questions…

Peer Surveys

This activity is designed to allow students to have short interpersonal interactions with as many classmates as possible in…

Picture Sequencing

The purpose of this activity is to present language in meaningful context with supporting visuals. This activity requires that…

Rotating Partners (Line-up)

Students form two parallel lines somewhere in the classroom or other open space in order to be able to exchange information by…

Sorting into Categories

In this activity, students categorize the words/language chunks to be sorted according to a feature that is common to all the…

What’s In The Bag?

The purpose of this activity is to keep students highly engaged as the teacher slowly removes realia and props from a bag and…

Mode of Communication

  • Interpersonal (3)
  • Interpretive (4)

Performance Range

  • Novice (1)
  • Intermediate (1)

Grade Level

  • 3-5 (15)
  • 6-8 (22)
  • 9-12 (21)
  • (-) K-2 (7)
  • Undergraduate (19)

Classroom Setting

  • (-) Face-to-Face (7)
  • Online (7)

GRR Stage

  • (-) I do (4)
  • We do (1)
  • You do alone (1)
  • (-) You do together (3)

Classroom grouping

  • (-) Individual (1)
  • Pairs (2)
  • (-) Small group (1)
  • (-) Whole class (7)

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