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Skills corner

2/17/2014

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Skills corner started out as a small reading area to encourage students to read freely in the target language. I made copies of cartoons and a selection of readers available for students to choose from.
As a department, we also wanted to ensure students had access to extension tasks and resources which would help them develop areas of the language identified from marking. All our languages rooms now have a skills corner.

These are kitted out with:
* a range of worksheets - grammar or vocabulary based
* cartoons and readers in the TL
* reading images sheets (I saw this in one of
Rachel Hawkes' fantastic presentations and there are examples below)
* puzzles and games such as tarsia, crosswords and diamond nine tasks
* scrabble sets

What is nice about skills corner is students are able to select for themselves what to move on to. This is particularly nice for students who consistently complete tasks first, as there can sometimes be the danger of giving them more of the same. All students so far have responded very positively when told to go and select something to do next.
To satisfy the teacher-geek side of my personality, I covered a range of cereal boxed with pretty wrapping paper to store all the puzzles in - the short, wide porridge boxes are particularly useful!
This morning, I had a conversation on twitter with
Dannielle Morgan
(@morganmfl ) after she blogged about her fab independent learning folders. I have a few vocabulary mats in my skills corner, but I like
the idea of linking them more closely to marking feedback.
You are free to use any of the resources below.

Reading images
Cartoons
Scrabble
Diamond nine
Vocabulary mats German
Vocab mats Spanish
Tarsia - adjectives    
Tarsia - complete the sentences
Tarsia - questions and answers
Tarsia - sums
Tarsia - vital verbs

If you have any suggestions for other things we could add, I'd love to hear them.
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    Karen Whitehead

    I have been teaching languages for 13 years. I enjoy finding and developing new ways to engage students with their learning. This page is designed for sharing anything and everything that may be of use to others. Enjoy!

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