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While we were doing OWI with the big green (happy) glasses Elsinore, it occurred to me that it was not only fine to have happy glasses, but actually was a good thing. How much better could it be, when encountering a problem, to have the happy glasses that get sad when smelly Mike (trout) comes into the eventual story.
This is so true David. I will amend that post and tell Tina.
My 5th/6th graders have been so wonderful with the OWIs. We all know it’s on the carpet in the front of the room, if it’s little everyone looks down, if it’s dangerous, we make sure to stay away. (our cute, tiny dwarf bunny was extremely dangerous and I kept hiding in the corner and whispering questions, with everyone completely engaged), we walk around them, squeezing by and best of all, the kids come in days later and ask me “Where is so and so?” We place them around the room sometimes, so I can still tell them. “Well, of course the dragon Wasser ist still sitting at the windowsill!” They truly have become invisibles that we can easily pick up for stories again later.
I do like to add the “Where” with some of them. I know it’s already setting up a story, but that’s what I like about it. It makes the kids naturally curious WHY the character is there. Cuts down on the building time later since it will just be part of the retell for the setup and we can launch right into the problem and spend our time there.
Since this builds new vocabulary early in the year, the kids must be suggesting things in English. Yes? Otherwise they couldn’t suggest anything new or even come up with the OWI word in the first place.
I show them with my hands (big/small), show them on things around the classroom the color (or with colored markers), I use gestures for rich and poor/ old and young/ intelligent and dumb. Also everything goes on the board with the translation. These options repeat all the time and that helps them recognize the words quicker next time.
With my 2nd year, I add new words that add more interest. It’s been working well with them, too.
Yes Ruth the suggestions are in English. The whole process of deciding on the object is done in English. It’s kind of a warm up.
I find this very difficult to do if students are just not very imaginative and sometimes they’re just not. Some kids (11th-12th grade) have lost the innocent magic, and can only really comment on images instead of shaping them. I guess you just have to know who you’re talking to. This can be a very engaging and fun activity that in my limited experience is more or less reveals the natural energy of the group. I don’t think it can be forced.
I agree completely. You have to read the group. It can be so much fun with the right kids, or it can be horrible. The latter can happen earlier than 11th-12th grade. Too many of my 8th graders this year always had a hard time, since 6th grade even, for a variety of reasons – their idea of what school should be, their particular level of social focus, their personalities…And they pretty much put a damper on everything. They couldn’t even get through 2 Truths and a Lie about their summer yesterday, couldn’t be creative with their truths and lies, couldn’t be engaged in the convincing and guessing.
I have to match the activities with the kids. With these kids I’m going to try sticking with Look & Discuss, Movie Talk, WCTGame, and have my guilt-free bailout moves lined up.
We can have plenty of CI and plenty of reading.
I’m doing much of the same things with my little darlings. What videos do you use? I totally love the birdbox studio videos. Are you familiar?
I agree it can’t be forced and I certainly can see where the older juniors and seniors would go splat with this. And I agree that it reveals the natural energy of the group. Each one as we all know is different, like you say Craig.
I feel fairly safe in saying that if a class has ever had a worksheet, where they could get an A just by staying inside themselves, inside their comfort zones, without really being imaginative at all, then they would be lost to this work before even being asked to imagine their first character as a group.
New CI first year classes would therefore be the only ones I think would resonate with the Invisibles at the high school level. Dave when you wrote this in a comment tonite:
… I can say my students’ character and imagination are exploding….
did you mean that this is true of all levels of kids you have, even those trained from worksheets in years past?