[Story Circles and Add-on Stories]
故事小圈圈及故事接龍
Step 1 Discuss the keywords
The students discussed the keywords(ex: names, places, verbs, nouns, or adjectives...) of the dialogues and wrote them down in the story circles.
故事小圈圈及故事接龍
Step 1 Discuss the keywords
The students discussed the keywords(ex: names, places, verbs, nouns, or adjectives...) of the dialogues and wrote them down in the story circles.
Worksheet
The students wrote down the keywords of the dialogues after Teacher Fortuna's explanation, demonstration and guidance because this was the first time the students applied such story circles to think about the keywords.
Step 2: Write the story in the dialogues.
Each group uses the keywords they write down in the first section to describe the story in the two dialogues. Each group expresses the story in different ways.
Step 3 Add-on Stories
The whole class was divided into Team A and Team B. One of Team A or Team B was chosen by the teacher to write down their teams' stories by writing down one sentence once. After the two teams finished their stories, the teacher checked the appropriateness of the story elements in the dialogues as well as the accuracy of the language use to decide the winner. Because Team B made fewer mistakes than Team A, Team B was the winner, who got a pack of cookies.
Reflection
Leaving students more space and time to think can develop their thinking skills as well as language skills. I think it would be better that only the teacher keeps talking in class all the time.
Teacher Fortuna