Reading: Power rangers Tiles game

Students choose a color and a word and read it. Click on that tile to reveal the point.

You can edit the words as you please.

This is a behind the curtains reveal game for period 3/4 reading.

This game is similar to Battleship.  Everyone draws 10 "Jolamen" (stick figures) on their game boards.   

Whole class game: choose two students to stand up.  One says a word, for example: centimeter and the other student an alphabet letter, for example “A”. All students check if they have a Jolaman in block (A1) and cross it out. Also cross out that box if you don’t have one. Students with a Jolaman in that box now only have 9 Jolamen left.

OR Group game: 2 students in each team (4 in group). Team 1:S1 says the word. S2 says the alphabet letter. Team 2 checks if they have a Jolaman in that specific block.


That block is then crossed out and anyone with a "Jolaman" at that spot now only has 9 men left.  Continue until someone loses all of their men.

*Easy to change the pictures if you want

this chapter is garbage. this textbook just seems to get worse and worse as it goes on. the title is "how tall are you?" and then it goes on to teach "do you know about ...?". WUT?! not only that but you have to teach the students words that are way too advanced for 6th grade, like 'observatory' and 'bay'. anyway.

here's a battleship game i edited to fit this chapter. it fits Period 3 (pp. 114-115) pretty much perfectly. Students must ask "Do you know about [person]? They are ____cm tall."

If they score a 'hit' instead of saying 'hit' the other student must say "Yes, (s)he's my friend." If they get a 'miss', the other student must say "No, I don't know him/her."

also edited a PPT explaining how to play the game. thanks to the original creators of this material, can't remember who you are or where i got this stuff from though!

EDIT: i've uploaded new versions of the materials, noticed there were a few mistakes in the originals. also cut out 1 slide from the explanation because it explains the same thing as the next slide, so i think it's redundant and the explanation was taking too long.

Minesweeper grid game for speaking.

Quote from: glb0b on June 22, 2015, 05:45:17 PM

This lesson is terrible!

Here are a couple of power points I made for this lesson. P3 includes Ben1981's Kpop star heights.

And I modified a pyramid game to give the students practice at saying heights.

I also modified a ppt showing how to play line bingo to match this lesson and to match the way I play that game too.

I also made a worksheet for them to measure parts of their body as homework and then do a survey about it in class.

can you explain the pyramid game.. the powerpoint isn't really that clear.

i second that.... all i'm getting is that they role the dice and depending on the number, they get to move up a level or not? also depending on if they say the height correctly? is this  played in pairs though? i can't really see how this works as a class...

Very simple multiple choice game (adapted from a template - thanks to the creator).
Students have to answer the question "Do you know about..?"
One slide has the SA flag  - many of my students didn't recognize the flag even though they know I'm from South Africa. Change the names on the answers on the Shakespeare slide, they'll find it funny if it's your own name.

Is anyone else going to correct the 'science' in story 1? A shooting star is not a falling star, obviously.  I'm about to start this lesson and so I'm thinking about giving them some more accurate information.  Any bright ideas?  Oh, sure, you could say 'they're just kids, it doesn't hurt them, and besides, this is English class, not science class!".  You could say that... but please don't.

Quote from: welcomebackkotter on July 03, 2015, 05:40:06 PM

Is anyone else going to correct the 'science' in story 1? A shooting star is not a falling star, obviously.  I'm about to start this lesson and so I'm thinking about giving them some more accurate information.  Any bright ideas?  Oh, sure, you could say 'they're just kids, it doesn't hurt them, and besides, this is English class, not science class!".  You could say that... but please don't.

Good point especially since falling star and shooting star both mean the same thing and that is not a star at all!

Here is a link to the NASA webiste where you can get an explanation (if you don't know already. I am going to talk about this in class and explain that people use different names for the meteorids.
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question12.html

I was also thinking this might be fun for an intro to the discussion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqBChyNyLhU

They Might be Giants song about shooting stars.  Lyrics attached.

This lesson kinda blows.

I concur. Ranks up there with the grade 5 lesson "What a Beautiful Palace!" from the 2012 YBM book LOL.

Anyways, here's what I got for this lesson. As usual be sure to check this post every now & again as I'll be editing it if/when I make more ppt's for the later parts of the lesson.

Sleeping Elephants game: Instructions included on the PPT, I always play sleeping elephants as a reading game but it can easily be used as a writing game too. (Ideal for the fourth or fifth period)

Blazing Pens game: Is there anyone who doesn't know how to play blazing pens??? (Ideal for the fifth period)