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Offline kriztee

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Out of Ideas for High Level 6th Graders
« on: November 15, 2016, 11:52:25 AM »
So I'm at a school with an intense afterschool program. These kids have had 5 years of afterschool with a native speaker 3-4 times a week. We were using the Everybody Up books but they finished the last book a month ago and we've been doing middle school first grade lessons but the topics are too easy becasue they did almost all the same sentences with their last books. I don't actually have middle school books or access to them so I've been using resources from waygook but these kids already understand it and I don't want to make middle school english horribly repetative for them.

In short: Does anyone have a decent book that doesn't overlap too much with the school cirriculum that I could base lessons on?

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Re: Out of Ideas for High Level 6th Graders
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2016, 10:38:23 AM »
I think we need some more information about the situation to give better advice. What is the actual level of the class? Speaking ability? Reading? Writing? Listening? Is the subject wide open? Are you expected to follow a schedule? Is it absolutely necessary to follow a book? Are you able to do longer projects?

If you need some one-off lessons, Film-English has a few good plans, but you will need to wade through to find age appropriate content.

- Task-based learning projects that can be used over two or three class times may be a good bet.
- Consider looking for material that is intended for native speaking classrooms.
- Do you have access to (leveled) English books? Make it into a reading and writing class. Reading, vocabulary, book reports (or presentations).
- Presentation skills class
- Is it possible to use a computer lab? Teach them how to make PowerPoint presentations.

Hopefully a few of those ideas give you some help.

Offline kriztee

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Re: Out of Ideas for High Level 6th Graders
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2016, 10:53:43 AM »
I think we need some more information about the situation to give better advice. What is the actual level of the class? Speaking ability? Reading? Writing? Listening? Is the subject wide open? Are you expected to follow a schedule? Is it absolutely necessary to follow a book? Are you able to do longer projects?

If you need some one-off lessons, Film-English has a few good plans, but you will need to wade through to find age appropriate content.

- Task-based learning projects that can be used over two or three class times may be a good bet.
- Consider looking for material that is intended for native speaking classrooms.
- Do you have access to (leveled) English books? Make it into a reading and writing class. Reading, vocabulary, book reports (or presentations).
- Presentation skills class
- Is it possible to use a computer lab? Teach them how to make PowerPoint presentations.

Hopefully a few of those ideas give you some help.

Their speaking reading and writing levels are very high. A week into teaching them I had to take away the written vocab words from my ppts because they're really good at phonics and just read whatever the word is. One day for fun I had them watch an english episode of Spongebob and told them to write down as many English words as they could understand and every correctly spelt word was one point, the student with the most points would get a candy, I gave up after counting over 200 words for the first 3 kids.
Half of them have done homestays in English speaking countries, and I can have normal conversations with all of them. It's all afterschool classes so I have free reign but the school doesn't want to buy new books for every student because we only have just over a month before they're done. We did a film project where they made music videos to english songs.

I can't use the computer lab because there is a computer teacher who uses the lab for her after school classes at the same time. I have english leveled books but they just finished the highest level one I have here. I'm looking for a book that I can get one copy of and make my own materials based off that book. My school wants me to do like 10 minutes of teaching then let the kids do activities with what they learned so I just need a book to give me topics that they haven't already learned and that probably won't overlap with the next 2-ish years for them.

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Re: Out of Ideas for High Level 6th Graders
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2016, 03:38:58 PM »
Have they debated? In my sixth grade class I had them do a mini debate and for the high level students it worked well. Sorry I don't have any other ideas but I think debates are kinda fun.  :azn:

 

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