Intro PPT
Worksheet
Mr Bean video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpqWI_ZdwjI

Here is an amazing Pirates Directions game. I am not the creator but I have used this with 3 different books and every time it has gone over really well with the kids. Big thanks to the original creator!

Quote from: Mr C on September 07, 2015, 01:17:08 PM

For this lesson, I am attaching the following materials:
Period 1 -begin with a review of prepositions.  After the first parts of the textbook, we will go to the vocab ppt, which reviews key terms and has a vanishing pictures game.  Then we'll go back to p. 157 for Listen and Play.
Period 2 - a ppt and worksheet I have modified somewhat from Molly's work on waygook.org--thank you. There are more map-reading, direction-giving examples. I also have the usual fill in the blanks worksheet from the Look and Listen conversation.  After I completed both worksheets, I realized I could cut the distribution time in half by combining them.
Period 3 - Place Your Bets game is a favorite around these parts.  Students have to look at the picture and the sentence(s), decide if they match, and decide if everything is correct.  Wager points, and earn stamps.  Full instructions on PPT.
Period 4 - I have a brand new decoding game called Dragon's Lair.  The students are knights in search of the dragon's gold.  They work in teams to decode the messages in the Book of Secrets to find the lair ... (It's another iteration of the English Espionage and Tomb Raiders activities I made.)  You need one code sheet (the Chart of Runic Letters) per team. Yeah, I know it's the cyrillic alphabet, but it looks good.  BTW, you don't have to click to advance slides except after something has been read.
Period 5 - More map-reading, direction-giving.  Based on a vacation I took to Paihia, in New Zealand.  You can back up the the directions overlays to have as many students as you like give the directions.
Period 6 - Students work in pairrs to match up the directions in a town's "Restaurrant Guide" with the numbered locations on the town map.  It uses relative directions w/ prepositions (on 4th Str., next to the school...).  I put the handouts in plastic sleeves and have students write the numbers on the restaurant guide with board marker.  Then I can just errase it and reuse.  These materials came from the website: http://www.bogglesworldesl.com

Appreciate all of the materials and sharing them, but just a heads up for anyone else; in the vocab/vanishing pictures powerpoint there's an animated gif of a guy getting hit by a car. My kids all screamed and one was pretty upset. My co-teacher was pretty mad but luckily she'd changed my lesson to this one very last minute so I hadn't had time to prepare and look at the powerpoint before I used it, so she was understanding.

I know it's maybe a little over-sensitive for some, but I do think it's elementary school and maybe don't show kids CCTV footage of dudes getting run down.

Wow.  Well, I'm sorry to hear that, but there was no reaction like that at all in my classes.  Just for the record, the guy walks away.

Thanks for the heads up. Love your other materials Mr C, but I agree that doesn't look like a thing to show grade schoolers. He's limping away!

Well, thanks for that.

When the first complaint about this one slide came to my attention (I was looking, of course, for shared materials that I might use in this thread), I was a bit surprised and upset.  I went back and looked at it again, even more carefully than I had done before posting it and using it.  Sorry, but in the context of the preceding slides, I expect students to laugh.  And that's what mine did.  Yeah, some gasps of surprise, but not a single shriek or crying jag. Then, we go on to the next slide.

Again, to DLJL, I'm sorry that you got that response.  But it is your responsibility to choose the materials you bring to your classroom, and the fact you didn't examine the materials you presented is not my fault, or my problem.  Furthermore, I am willing to bet that had you seen it in advance, it would not have struck you as "inappropriate", just as it didn't me.  It still seems fine with me.  Though you may differ.

You know, we're all different sorts of teachers, and we have different backgrounds and indeed different teaching situations.  I shared my materials in the spirit of waygook.org, the attempt to help us all improve our pedagogy and technique, and thereby make the native teacher community stronger.  I think I add to that goal.

yfb, I don't think it's your place to say "that doesn't look like a thing to show grade schoolers".  It may be a thing you choose not to show them, that's fine.  Don't use my ppt, or change that slide, whatever, but sanctimony is unnecessary.

This one slide on this one ppt has received two negative comments from the users of this textbook. 

In the previous eight lesson threads for this specific fifth grade textbook, I have posted about 80 documents, quite a lot of them my own work from scratch.  Those documents have been downloaded by users of this website over 15,000 times.  That's FIFTEEN THOUSAND. An average of over 200 downloads per item. 

I went back through the threads and found three, THREE, cases where other users publicly thanked me for my work specifically, and two other general ones, like "Thanks, folks," at the end of a thread, and "Great work" which I assume was for me since it directly followed my post. 

Now, that's okay, as thanking previous posters doesn't seem to be a thing here, but neither does criticizing the well-intentioned offerings of other posters.  However, a 3 to 2 ratio on 15,000 dls seems a bit discouraging.

I am totally not saying this to be snarky, but if you want to have the moral ground to complain about my materials, surely it is incumbent upon you to post your own!

Some stuff I used today for lesson 4. A pass the ball warm up game that reviews the stuff in the textbook from the last three lessons. It's very quick, I use it for 5-10 minutes to wake up my morning class.

Also a Wheel of Fortune guessing game using the template on here. It all made for a good lesson.

If anyone else is doing lesson 4, after pass the ball I gave out pictures of buildings like museum, post office, library and had random students stand and hold them up. Each desk was a city block. I had one student volunteer to come to the front, turn around and cover their eyes. I had a chocolate cake snack thing that I gave to one of the students holding up a building card.

The class then had to take turns directing the student who covered her eyes to the building with the hidden snack. When she got there I'd ask "where are you?", they'd answer "I'm at the library!" then the student with the card would hand the cake/snack/candy over.

After that we just read the textbook dialogue together, did the one super easy Read and Do activity and then played the wheel of fortune game. All of that filled the full 40 minutes.

I made 'Da Map' game. Cut up the sentences and put them into a jar or basket. Have volunteers come up and choose a direction to read to the class. The students have to guess the question: Where is the _________? (you can change any of the sentences to fit your students level.) It's a great game, because the students so all the talking. If the map is too hard to read on the ppt, you can print out mini maps to hand out to your class.

'Give Doremon Directions and Buildings' ppt I got from a 6th grade lesson.

And the infinite challenge video is super popular with my students. They really love it!

Hope these materials help someone. :)

It's my first post. ^^

Hi Everyone!

Just finished making this game for period 3 or 4. It's played in the same way as the classic 'Running Dictation'. Each group gets a copy of the map, and around the room I have posted a picture of a location. Under the picture are instructions on how to get there. On my count, one student from each group stands up and reads the instructions to one location and memorises it. After some time, they return to their group and try to remember the instructions and locate the place on the map. Students take turns memorising different locations until they have found them all.

In terms of lesson planning, this game will take you about 15 to 20 mins including instructional time and checking the answers.

My instructions are very simple and don't use vocab such as "It's next to ~." or "It's between ~." because my students are very low level. I'm using it in period 3 so I wanted to make it as simple as possible.

The following files are the map, the answer map and the pictures to cover the instructions in 1 PPT, and a word file containing the instructions. There are 8 locations in total to find.

I've played this game a few times before and it's always been really enjoyable as they work together to find all the different locations. I hope your students have fun too!

I edited a telepathy writing game and made it Halloween themed.

Attached is a Dragon Crawl Bomb Game. I did not make the template, and for the life of me can't remember who did. So a big thanks to the unknown creator.

But I did adjust it to this lesson as a review game.
You can change the names of the monsters to your students. Right now my students are labeled on it. So just delete, or change them.

P.S: I think naming the monsters is really what sold the game! They asked to play it twice, so they could have time to get through all the questions.

Enjoy!

-E

Attached is a Halloween telepathy game. I didn't make this template, found on another thread.

Download music files and place them in the same folder as the PPT. Kids loved it!