As a teacher, I have had so many teacher´s book, student´s
book, workbook and from different grade, levels and so on. I saw how the
children threw them away at the end of the school year. I used to give them
away for paper recycling but those places are not around anymore. Old textbooks
are not good for donations, since the Publishing Companies come out with
different series every year.
I still have several from my teaching days and decided to
invent something. This is how it went with my Early Childhood and Elementary
Series Textbooks.
Sorting. For the family theme there lots of pictures of
family members, I just cut them out .I made a word card for each family member
and had the students sort out all the pictures.
The pocket chart is another way to sort out all the
pictures.
I found this old pocket folder. I grabbed clear pocket
sheets, one for each family member. Students glued the word and the
corresponding pictures. I used butterfly clips and made a book. Students can
write each word using whiteboard markers and then erase it.
Sorting spoons in nouns, verbs, adjectives. Another sorting
activity involving cups and spoons. I wrote Verbs, Adjectives and Nouns on each
cup. Give the students the plastic spoons and sharpie markers. Have them write
a word from the text on each spoon and have the group partners place it where
it belongs.
Make a book. Many textbooks come with short stories that
are read like once in the classroom.
Have the students make an accordion book.
Play Spelling Bingo. Give each child the short reading
recycled page. After reading the story
using your preferred technique. Have the students select 15 words from
the reading and write them down. Make your own list and cut out each word,
place them in a bag. Start calling the words and the students tick them if they
have that word written on their paper. The first student to tick them all off
calls out BINGO!
Sort Noun and Verbs. Give the reading recycled page to each
student and have them sort the words in two columns, one for verbs and another
for nouns.
Write sentences. After reading the recycled story, students
can write sentences in a grammar structure that you want to practice.
Match paragraph. I cut the story in pictures and paragraphs
and placed them in a Cd sleeve. Students had to match each paragraph with the
corresponding picture.
Sentence Association. There was this review page. I cut the
picture and sentence and make a sentence association game. I glued all the
cutouts onto fun foam.
Egg carton Alphabet Sort. I placed a small craft stick
behind each cutout. I also glued a fun foam letter to each egg hole. Students
sort all the pictures by the beginning letter of each picture.
Make a crown for each letter. With so many pictures from the
book. I made a crown for each letter. Students have to find pictures that begin
with the letter in the crown given and glue them accordingly. Have the students show their crown to the
class and the words that they found.
Write vocabulary words. Have the students glue each picture
and write as many vocabulary words they know. The winner is the student that
writes more words.
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