Tools, techniques, and activities.

Deadline: 3/11

1. Watch the video and comment on what you enjoyed the most about this class.

Elementary Classroom Hacks: Big Ideas at Little Cost | Edutopia

2. Read Chapter 15: Tools, techniques and activities by Jim Scrivener and answer:
● Enumerate the main typical uses of flashcards.
a.
● Compare and contrast the two different approaches for using picture stories.

● Look at Figure15.3 Bear picnic story prompts (p353) and devise a communicative
task. Include PREPARATION- CORE TASK- FOLLOW UP (oneclass)

● According to the author “Storytelling is a useful short activity for the end of a lesson,
perhaps or, or mid-lesson to provide a change of mood.” Describe in a paragraph its
basic technique.

● In which ways can songs and music be used in class?

● Which are “fillers”? Provide examples of some common fillers.

● Many well-known word games can be used in the classroom as fillers or as

integrated practice activities. Recall a game you have played outside the classroom.
What adaptations or variations would you need in order to make it into a classroom
activity?