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Engaging Language Kits 17
Author: Brian McCabe

There are 7 Engaging Language Kits altogether, each corresponding to the similarly-numbered volume of AVKO's Sequential Spelling program, using the words and word families of that level. However, you do not have to use Sequential Spelling to use this. Each Engaging Language Kit has the same four sections and the same types of activities. The ... more »individual exercises grow harder as one progresses through the series. The types of activities vary in level of difficulty, abstract thought, and vocabulary so your students will not get bored or frustrated. For younger children, the daily writing exercises can be done orally and/or dictated. This program allows students to engage with the language, use the words they have learned, and form grammatically and syntactically correct sentences. 1.) Daily Writing: Inspire Me - Students write a story or prose inspired by the image depicted. Great for visual students; Quotables - Students write a reaction piece to the quote given; Story Time - Students write a story/poem/prose using the words given; Today I Learned... - Students finish the sentence Today I learned..; Hypothetical Questions - Students respond to the hypothetical questions; and Personification - Students personify an abstract noun and write a story about it. --------------------------- 2.) Dictation and Comprehension: Sage Sayings - Students transcribe the proverb dictated by the teacher and discussion follows; Picture This - Students draw a picture depicting the literal or figurative meanings of the idioms given; Pages from AVKO's Word Families in Sentence Context - We have provided you with about 20 pages from Word Families in Sentence Context that give contextual sentences for some of the word families used in that volume of Sequential Spelling. They can be used for dictations, handwriting exercises, or choral reading; Additional Quotes - In the appendix, we have provided you with a few hundred additional quotes that can be used for writing prompts, readings for comprehension, dictations, discussion, teachable moments, etc. --------------------------- 3.) Word games: Name 'em - Students are given a string of letters. They name as many words as they can that have these letters in them, in order; Scramblers - Students make as many words as they can out of the word given, using some or all of the letters; Word Searches - Students search for the words in the grid of letters. The words used are those tested on in the evaluation tests of Sequential Spelling; Speech to Spelling Translation - This is an unusual exercise where the students must translate the sentences, written phonetically, into proper English; Family Reunion - Students must use logic and their knowledge of spelling to put the missing letters back into the words given, using the bank of word parts. Each word part is only used once; Unscramblers - Students unscramble the words given. Multiple answers may be necessary. We recommend that you give extra points for multiple answers; Alphabet Game - Thinking of the prompt given, students must list an item in that category for each letter of the alphabet. --------------------------- 4.) Appendix with additional exercises and activities. --------------------------- Though these activities correspond to each of the levels of Sequential Spelling, one needn't be teaching Sequential Spelling to use these exercises with students. They can complement any language arts curriculum or used just for fun! They ascend in level of difficulty with each volume (difficulty of the words used, level of abstract thought, word families presented, etc For more information on Engaging Language Kits and other AVKO materials, please see the AVKO website.

ISBN-13: 9781564003881
ISBN-10: 1564003884
Publication Date: 5/31/2009
Pages: 1,190
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: AVKO Educational Research Foundation
Book Type: Ring-bound
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