Language Learning Games for Your ELA Classroom | Edutopia
2025年1月2日 · Games are an engaging and effective way to help students build vocabulary, grammar, reading, and speaking skills. This collection of 21 classroom-ready games offers impactful language practice that’s simple to implement in any upper elementary English language arts classroom setting. Expand ...
17 Fun Games to Get World Language Learners Talking
2024年3月1日 · The 5-Second Rule: This is a classic game of word association that will keep your class on their toes, writes Ewa Stoklosa, English language teaching content manager at ESL Brains. After receiving a category—like subjects in school or modes of transportation—a student has five seconds to brainstorm and shout out three related things that ...
12 Fun Speaking Games for Language Learners - Edutopia
2015年11月12日 · 4. Comic strip descriptions: Give each student a portion of a comic strip. Without showing their pictures to one another, the students should attempt to describe their image, and put the comic strip into the correct order.
Games for Teaching English Learners - Edutopia
2024年5月9日 · Give a student a card with a word on it, but don’t let them see the word. They can hold it over their head, or the word can be written on the board with the student sitting in a chair facing away from the board. Other class members should use English to describe the word that’s hidden from their classmate. The student has to guess what it is.
5 Vocabulary Games That Build Content Knowledge - Edutopia
2023年1月17日 · I use five different word-association games that get students to recall, describe, explain, listen, and verbalize the subject-specific vocabulary from that topic or unit of work. In my experience, the lighthearted nature of these games provides students with a fun, safe, and low-stakes environment where they feel more confident to just have a go.
Movement-Based Games That Improve Spelling | Edutopia
2024年3月19日 · The following are movement-based games that build students’ abilities to retain spelling words specifically. Ideally, these exercises support them academically as well as socially. Research shows that learning through play promotes listening, focus, empathy, and self-awareness—benefits that build students’ social and emotional learning ...
Using Video Games at School to Enhance Learning - Edutopia
2024年9月25日 · Other games that support this include Animal Crossing, the Pokémon series, Super Mario Odyssey, the Lego Star Wars series, and Luigi’s Mansion 3. Writing and Presentation (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1 and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.4): Esports can enhance writing and speaking skills; students might write game reviews, create strategy …
5 Free Video Games That Support English Language Learners
2019年9月13日 · This is just as true for English language learners (ELLs) as for native English speakers. Serious simulation games—which I have described as being “designed for the fundamental purposes of education for reaching a solution for real-world dilemmas”—can be especially effective in engaging middle- and upper-grade ELLs in rigorous content ...
The Role of Video Games in the English Classroom - Edutopia
2012年9月17日 · See what they play, what they love, where their experience is -- and what their ideas are for dragging lowly video games into the hallowed halls of English Language Arts instruction. Then, as you become more comfortable, continue to seek out better ideas, tools and resources for making it happen.
Putting a Playful Spin on Literary Analysis - Edutopia
2022年10月6日 · In my Honors English III STEM class, I used gamification in my Edgar Allan Poe stories as the basis for gamification. Students were challenged to create games that were a retelling of these famous stories. They chose from either “The Masque of the Red Death” or “The Tell-Tale Heart.” We read and analyzed these stories in class.