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ESL ActivityLydia Stanley4/6/16Sight Word HuntGrade Level: Kindergarten-3rdPurpose: Students will become more familiar with common sight words in a multimodal, active way. Students will practice saying common sight words out loud.Description:To do a Sight Word Hunt, the teacher must first prepare a coloring sheet with sight words hidden on the paper in various parts of the drawing (see example below). The teacher will then take all of the sight words used in the coloring sheet and write them on a small piece of paper. Each word will get a different color (matching it with what color is should be based on the picture). The teacher will tape and hide these words all around the classroom (on walls, shelves, posters), and the students will go around the room finding each sight word. When they find a new word, they will tell a partner (I found the sight word ________.), and color in the appropriate color on their own coloring page. Students will continue searching for words around the room until they have colored in every section of their coloring page. Teacher can circulate room and as students find a word they can say, “What sight word did you find?” to which students can reply, “I found ______”. Make sure students are practicing saying the sight word before coloring it in. The sight word hunt is complete when they have found all of the words on the coloring sheet around the classroom. For extra practice, have students read all of the sight words to a teacher before turning in the sight word hunt.Rationale (Relevance for ELL’s):This activity is very beneficial for ELL’s because it gives them a lot of exposure to and practice with difficult sight words in an engaging and interesting way. In order to find the sight word, they will need to be able to identify and find the word around the classroom. Sight words are especially difficult for ELL students to learn, and in this activity they get plenty of practice with both identifying and saying these words orally. This is also a good way for teachers to learn what sight words students are comfortable with, and which ones they need to further develop. Since sight words cannot be sounded out, having a better understanding and of these sight words will help ELL students easily identify and read these words in text. This activity is also a great way to call upon students’ interests and experiences. For example, if a student is very interested in Pokémon, the coloring page could be full of different Pokémon characters. Application/Extension: For higher grades, the teacher could call on students’ linguistic funds of knowledge and use words from other languages represented in the classroom in the word hunt. For example, the teacher could write “Hola” on the sheet if they have Spanish-speaking students in their classroom. The students that speak these languages could then be considered the “experts”, and could teach that word to the class and explain the meaning of it. In this scenario, it may work better to do this as a large group, so that each student is able to learn from the student “expert” at the same time. For math, you could hide math facts all around the classroom. Students could then find a math problem, solve it, and color the corresponding answer on their coloring page. (For example: Hide the math fact ‘2+7’, and have the answer (9) on the coloring sheet. The math problems could be story problems for older kids, or simple facts such as ‘5+7” or ’10-3’ for younger grades. In this extension of the activity, students will not be able to color until they solve the math fact, and they could work with a partner if they need extra help coming up with math facts. This could also be a way to practice vocabulary words for science. The teacher could create a handout with pictures of all the different things that students need to be able to know the name of for that particular unit, and then hide those vocabulary words around the classroom. (For example, if it’s a plant unit you could have a picture of a plant with an arrow to the stem, a picture of a plant with an arrow to the petals, etc). The student would then have to find the vocabulary word and practice saying that before coloring in the corresponding image on their coloring page. Anticipated Challenges:Students may not pay attention to the words around the room and just color in the picture the way they want to in order to be done with the activity quickly. One way to combat this happening is to color the picture in different colors than it should be every once in a while to make sure kids are actually going through and finding the color associated for the word (for example: color a minions pants green instead of blue). This way, you can use your example to day, “Does yours look like mine?”, and the students will be held accountable if it’s not. For younger students, or students that don’t know all of the sight words, this may be a difficult activity. If that is the case, you can pair students up with a partner that does or have them focus on the letter order of the words, matching them up with the one on their sheet. You can differentiate the difficulty of the sight words based on grade and ability level. If students have a hard time working independently on this activity, students could work in pairs or in groups in order to complete the sight word hunt worksheet. -914400-68580000 ................
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