1. Teaching Strategies For Linguistic Learners

2. Word Smart Reading Writing Listening Classroom Examples: Story telling
Choral repetition
Discussion
Workbook practice
Reading passages
Dictation
Student Learns Through:
Reading
Writing
Listening

3. Learning Vocabulary: Prefixes and Suffixes
En- (put in): endanger, encourage
Dis- (oppositive of): discover , disapprove
Re- (again): repay, realign
-an (noun-person): historian, guardian
-ation (verb to resulting state) conversation, action
Helps logic smart students, not like learning new words, just combining words in new ways

4. Breaking Up Words for Understanding
Outstanding Endless
Backpacking Newspaper
Nutrition Washroom
Necklace
Obvious for us, but not for kids that aren’t word smart, need to explicitly break it down

5. Phrases for Remembering
Can you afford a Ford?
The entire tire is black.
Museums are amusing.

6. Words without pictures - Use actions
Scream Soccer Tight
Howl Swap Loose
Whisper Beg Power
Friction Home Length
Like how booker does actions in the songs, not the entire meaning, but represents a big part of the word

7. Acting It Out
Forward
Guard
Referee

8. Game “Trashketball” 1. Put students in teams
2. Have students answer questions for points
3. If correct, have student throw trash into the trashcan for more points

9. Pronunciation Tips Slow down Practice individual sounds
Practice in the mirror – compare to video of native speaker
Pay attention to intonation and stress
Exposure to different voices
Intonation – models tones of Chinese
Diff voices: male, female, accents, etc.

10. Pronunciation Tips: Listen to YOURSELF
Have students try to say the word first, then listen and repeat
Listen to yourself: record and analyze
Self smart

11. Answering Comprehension Questions
1. Detail
-What does this word mean?
-What word could replace this word?
-Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
2. Overall
-Author’s attitude
-Main idea
2nd type usually more difficult, write on the text!

12. Guessing the meaning of a new word
Using Context Clues
Guessing the meaning of a new word
“In the basketball tournament, Chandler High was playing St. Mary Central and
at the interval the score was 50-52”.
Student book 7

13. Using Context Clues
Key Words
And = both things
Or = one or the other
Because = reason why

14. Answering Comprehension Questions
Reading questions before reading
Scanning
-Why do tourists get lost in Lijiang?
-How long did Simon stay in Yunnnan?
Write on the text

15. Answering Comprehension Questions
Using the question to start writing the answer
-What do buckets often carry?
-”Buckets often carry _________”.
Looking through tests for correct grammar phrasing
SELF SMART: SELF EVALUATION, CREATING THEIR OWN TESTS/QUIZZES, ETC.

16. Make Reading Fun! - Mad Libs
Fill in the chart with any word that is in the category requested.
Fill in the blanks in the story with the words you chose.
Read your hilarious story!

17. Mad Libs
Verb Noun
Verb Noun
Noun Adjective

18. Mad Libs
My dad says that a good breakfast helps you ____#1___ and ___#2____ like a champion. Some days he gives me a whole __#3__ to eat with butter on it. Other times he makes me __#4___ with eggs or pancakes shaped like ___#5___. My breakfast is always __#6__.