Practical Lessons for the Classroom using television!

Kinder-2nd grade

Activity: Creating a sing-a-long to watch and
following along on the TV. “Same Language Subtitles”
or SLS can be used to help the kids follow the lyrics.
The song will help them be engaged and the subtitles
will give them a visual on what they are actually
singing.

The SLS can help in word identification and the music
itself will help with fluency, because just like echo
reading, they are able to hear proper intonations,
rhythms, and pronunciations.


4th grade and up

Activity: Use School House Rock to aid in teaching
grammar. For example, if the students are watching a
video about conjunctions, they can, as they are
watching the video write down as many conjunctions
they can hear and see on the screen. After the video
is over, have them write down any other conjunctions
that they know (unmentioned in the video) and then get
together with a partner and come up with 3-5 sentences
using their conjunctions.

The writing while watching the video will help them to
stay focused and not doze off in the dark. Having
follow up work is important because it will show you
who understood the assignment and having a partner to
complete the assignment with allows some of the
confusion to lessen from peer-teaching.

MySpace and Language Development

Most of us are familiar with MySpace. A great feature that authors have begun to capitalize on is the connection that can be made with their intended audience. For security reasons, access to MySpace at an elementary school will most likely be restricted, but you could have your class think of questions or write letters to an author of a class book and then post on the author's page. I have had great success in contacting authors with questions. They all reported that MySpace was a great way to reach their readers and break down the barriers of disconnect.

Amazing Reference

So it is midnight and some change, time for bed. but i just found this insance page of references on my topic....double super triple uggg.....while i feel confident they will only reinforce my current research, i thought i would post the link from u of a for anyone interested in furthur studying the relationship of second language acquisition and chatting:

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~xuyi/cmc.html

The funniest thing a Star Wars fan will ever see!!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=52b5xTy44x4

School House Rock!!!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7TQByv_xkuc

Chatting Lingo

Chat Lingo

404……I have no clue (what you get when you enter a wrong URL)
^5…….High 5
and……Any day now
afaics……As far as I can See
afaik …….As far as I know
beg….Big evil grin
cmiiw…..Correct me if I'm wrong
csg…..Chuckle snicker grin
egbok…..Everything going to be O.K.
gmta……Great minds think alike
gi………..google it
hos…..Husband over shoulder
htgelb……Have to go eat lunch, bye
iyss……If you say so
mtf…..More to follow
n2n…..Nice to know
nadt…..Not a darn thing
sete…..Smiling ear to ear
shid……Slaps head in disgust
spoz2b……Supposed to be
wdp……..Well done partner

The Chatting Evolution

This commercial highlights the crossover of chatting/txting lingo when combined with oral production.

My bff Jill...


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