Reading Uzbek Folk Fairy Tales: Fairy discussion in the classroom

Fairy tales in our classroom

My young learners fond of reading folk fairy tales.  After reading the tale ( I suggest to my students to read one by one, they will be able to read, correct pronunciation, to participate actively in reading) they discuss about goodies and baddies of the tale. There are some of the books we read in our classroom. One of them that we recently received as gift from www.davrbooks.uz . Fairies can lead young readers to the magic world where they meet wisdom for the future. 

I conduct some activities to check reading comprehension.

Activity 1.

“Enchanting wonders of fairy tale” 

I ask my students how many enchanting wonders they could find from the fairy. They count wonders and explain why they think its wonder. It’s good activity to improve students’ critical and creative thinking. 

Activity 2.

“True or False”

I give my students written facts of fairy that they’ve just read. They should tick true and false facts.

Activity 3.

“Drawing fairy” This activity is my learners’ favorite one. They work creatively using their imagination. I divide class into groups, they draw fairy heroes and display on the classroom wall. 

Activity 4.

“ Put in order”

This activity is also for group work. I mix paragraphs and suggest to students to put paragraphs in order. 

I hope you liked our activities :) 

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Word games in teaching vocabulary

What word games do you use in your classroom?

How do you start?

I start with a word.  One by one I go around the class and ask my students to say another English word that they know. Start with word sorting game. ( if a teacher say “ car” students should continue one by one “bus”, “train” ) Have you ever used “Boggle” board or game? This game helps students to improve their creativity and logical thinking. It’s easy to display Boggle board and involve your students to play with words.  I just love this cute Boggle board :) 

http://mrsmfirstgrade.blogspot.com/2012/08/peek-inside-my-room.html

 My classroom's noun box

Word games are fun!

There are a lot of word games we can conduct in our classroom to help students  to memorize  words and increase vocabulary:“Scrambled word”, “ Odd word out”, “Crossword”, “ Family – words”, “ Magic pencil”, 

“Hidden picture word  game”,

“Word search”,

“Rhyming words- Rhyme Time”, “ Word building”, “Silent letter – shshshsh” and many others.

Bottle cap word game 

What do you think about word games that  do not require special preparations. What are convenient and “right now” tools? I use bottle caps to  prepare word games. They are useless after  drinking content of the bottle but useful to write on them little “magic “words. Another  “helpers” are matchers’  boxes that people drop away after emptying them.

Matches “magic” words.
Just ask your students to find antonym pairs(or other parts of speech) 

Odd word out activities in our classroom

Watch learning vocabulary on youtube 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fUlS_aGQ1I