Conductor: Chilk2411@gmail.com
Oxford Phonics: sing for fun, sound, words
Super me: chant to revise Voc for each Unit.
Playway: individual topic
Family and Friends: new language, phonics chant
English Zone: additional skill
Tips for teaching: some changes for lyrics, change the voice, make up gestures, actions, paper rock scissors and everyone follow the winner. Note: Ts please feel free to ask for being shared.
prompt: clues
right pitch
1. Choose a song that is suitable with topic of the lesson and requires involvement in the form of movements, gestures.
2. Learn it by heart yourself so you don't have to keep checking the words.
- so you'll look and feel confident
- so students will feel confident
- so you can look at your class and see how they're doing
- so you can direct different groups, voices or motions.
3. Use visual aids and prompts (such as gestures) to help the Ss understand and remember. Give the words for support if needed. You can elicit them or give clues if the song is simple but if you want students to be singing it confidently they shouldn't be struggling with remembering the words. When they've got it, you could take away some or all of the words as a challenge.
4. Sing or chant energetically and enthusiastically. Your students will mirror this.
5. Get the right pitch for your song - not too high and not too low.
6. Decide which language or vocabulary really need explicit teaching. What can students understand from the context of the song? Don't overteach as you may ruin the fun of the song or chant.
7. Don't expect them to join in immediately or master a complete song in one session. If not all students are singing, show them how to mouth the words.
8. Follow up the song in the next lessons, but do something different or a more complicated activity - strike the balance between enough repetition for them to learn it and over-doing it.
DOs:
1. Do lead in activities to introduce topic of song or chant, to introduce/review important vocabulary.
2. Sing or chant it through once or twice first for students. Give them a simple task while they are listening- watching you do the action may be a task in itself - you could be their best visual support!
3. Encourage Ss to think of the most appropriate actions to accomparny the words this will give them some ownership of the song and make it more memorable. Ts should prepare themselves several suggestions in case your Ss are not creative enough. Remember to manage the time in this activities, otherwise you can't have enough time.
4. Build up to the whole class singing or chanting on their own. Here are some ideas:
- practice slowly at first to work on pronunciation.
- have Ss repeat (singing or saying) each line after you - through depending on the song, it may be better to pratice verse by verse so as not to break spontaneity
- do some extra practice with bits that go fast of have tricky rhymthm.
- you sing the song and Ss do the motions only.
- you chant or sing one line/verse and students do the next.
- Ss clap or click their fingers to the beat while you chant or sing.
- let them see the words and work on meaning through visuals, mime examples etc.
- finally sing the whole song through a couple of times with you and/or on their own. And do some follow-up activities: Writing the words, filling in the gaps, writing an extra verse, changing words, drawing pictures, oral activities using language in the chant or song.
- do a final round of the song at the end of class.
DONTs
- Don't over teach as you may ruin the fun of the song or chant -->They will think that they are not good enough.
- Don't choose a song unsuitable for the students' age group/level
- Don't seclect a song you hate. It will show.
- Don't expect Ss to join in immediately. (raise-up teamshop can be a solution for this).
- Don't do a song you can't remember the words of!
TELLING STORY
Pre-telling:
- Revise the words.
- Lead to the context
- Let Ss guess guess, set the scene.
While-telling
- Deliver jobs to Ss: FF, EZ
- Make gestures, point to the pictures, ask
Post-telling
- FF: not to act out, saying with the same voice (tender, sweet)
- Prompt: simple sign.
- Change the key words, change story ending.
- Let Ss make questions by underlining the words.
- Ask Ss to summarise the story.
- FF4: take advantage of mind map.
- Crictial thinking: Why don't we use...?
- OP, PW, SP: Do you understand? Are you with me?
NOTE: Class set up: circle, U-shape, in lines.
Oxford Phonics: sing for fun, sound, words
Super me: chant to revise Voc for each Unit.
Playway: individual topic
Family and Friends: new language, phonics chant
English Zone: additional skill
Tips for teaching: some changes for lyrics, change the voice, make up gestures, actions, paper rock scissors and everyone follow the winner. Note: Ts please feel free to ask for being shared.
prompt: clues
right pitch
1. Choose a song that is suitable with topic of the lesson and requires involvement in the form of movements, gestures.
2. Learn it by heart yourself so you don't have to keep checking the words.
- so you'll look and feel confident
- so students will feel confident
- so you can look at your class and see how they're doing
- so you can direct different groups, voices or motions.
3. Use visual aids and prompts (such as gestures) to help the Ss understand and remember. Give the words for support if needed. You can elicit them or give clues if the song is simple but if you want students to be singing it confidently they shouldn't be struggling with remembering the words. When they've got it, you could take away some or all of the words as a challenge.
4. Sing or chant energetically and enthusiastically. Your students will mirror this.
5. Get the right pitch for your song - not too high and not too low.
6. Decide which language or vocabulary really need explicit teaching. What can students understand from the context of the song? Don't overteach as you may ruin the fun of the song or chant.
7. Don't expect them to join in immediately or master a complete song in one session. If not all students are singing, show them how to mouth the words.
8. Follow up the song in the next lessons, but do something different or a more complicated activity - strike the balance between enough repetition for them to learn it and over-doing it.
DOs:
1. Do lead in activities to introduce topic of song or chant, to introduce/review important vocabulary.
2. Sing or chant it through once or twice first for students. Give them a simple task while they are listening- watching you do the action may be a task in itself - you could be their best visual support!
3. Encourage Ss to think of the most appropriate actions to accomparny the words this will give them some ownership of the song and make it more memorable. Ts should prepare themselves several suggestions in case your Ss are not creative enough. Remember to manage the time in this activities, otherwise you can't have enough time.
4. Build up to the whole class singing or chanting on their own. Here are some ideas:
- practice slowly at first to work on pronunciation.
- have Ss repeat (singing or saying) each line after you - through depending on the song, it may be better to pratice verse by verse so as not to break spontaneity
- do some extra practice with bits that go fast of have tricky rhymthm.
- you sing the song and Ss do the motions only.
- you chant or sing one line/verse and students do the next.
- Ss clap or click their fingers to the beat while you chant or sing.
- let them see the words and work on meaning through visuals, mime examples etc.
- finally sing the whole song through a couple of times with you and/or on their own. And do some follow-up activities: Writing the words, filling in the gaps, writing an extra verse, changing words, drawing pictures, oral activities using language in the chant or song.
- do a final round of the song at the end of class.
DONTs
- Don't over teach as you may ruin the fun of the song or chant -->They will think that they are not good enough.
- Don't choose a song unsuitable for the students' age group/level
- Don't seclect a song you hate. It will show.
- Don't expect Ss to join in immediately. (raise-up teamshop can be a solution for this).
- Don't do a song you can't remember the words of!
TELLING STORY
Pre-telling:
- Revise the words.
- Lead to the context
- Let Ss guess guess, set the scene.
While-telling
- Deliver jobs to Ss: FF, EZ
- Make gestures, point to the pictures, ask
Post-telling
- FF: not to act out, saying with the same voice (tender, sweet)
- Prompt: simple sign.
- Change the key words, change story ending.
- Let Ss make questions by underlining the words.
- Ask Ss to summarise the story.
- FF4: take advantage of mind map.
- Crictial thinking: Why don't we use...?
- OP, PW, SP: Do you understand? Are you with me?
NOTE: Class set up: circle, U-shape, in lines.
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