I haven’t shared the WCTG in a long time with teachers since it is a Book 2 thing and most teachers are still trying to absorb the gems in Book 1. But I have to say that, after doing a coaching session on it today, I had forgotten how truly magnificent it is for teachers […]
This information is for those teachers who have done the Ultimate CI Book 2 training. The instructions on the Word Chunk Team Game have been changed in the book to: 1. Teacher says a single word, a group of words, or even a sentence. Groups of 3 or 4 students put their heads together to
Dana Miller-Kitch is the Canadian CI teacher who replaced me at the American Embassy School in the fall of 2016 in New Delhi, India. She had trained up over that summer on the Invisibles since she knew that she would inherit kids who were taught using them. This post shows how the team gestures in
Q. In your opinion, what is critical mass for the Word Chunk Team Game? I need 3 judges, right? Will the activity work if there are only 2 or 3 teams of 3? A. I like the big classes for the game. That way the teams don’t get in each others’ faces. I would say
1. Teacher says a group of words, or a single word, from the story, in L2. 2. Groups of 3 or 4 put heads together to translate what they heard, as a group. 3. When they have their group answer, one person raise their hand. 4. One of the judges points to the first group
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Elena Overvold, in a late night Cascadia Conference small group setting with Lina Rubio and Erin Anthony coaching session on the Word Chunk Team Game, improved on the only weakness in the game, for those who are familiar with it: When the kids put their heads together to try to get the answer to the question,
I did this activity today and I gotta say this is a mega winner for the kids. I know that it is hard to explain but if you see it in action you will see how simple it is, and you won’t believe the involvement. This falls under the category of “The Are Not Learning
With kids predictably squirrelly this coming week, here is a game that, if you have a good word wall up, is fun and eats up minutes (which is more important than trying to force CI), but the description is kind of long: Word Chunk Team Game (WCT): It would be nice for teachers if communication
Strategy #4 – Word Chunk Team Game (WCTG): It would be nice for teachers if communication via language could be done via single words only; their jobs would be much simpler. Unfortunately that is not the case. Languages require that words be grouped together in order for communication to occur. So we definitely want to
The part in green below connects to the current thread on how to build up trust with negative kids: It would be nice for teachers if communication via language could be done via single words only; their jobs would be much simpler. Unfortunately that is not the case. Languages require that words be grouped together
