How Many Times Can You Find the Hidden Word?

Name: ______Date: Listen to your teacher. Write the missing letter(s). Copy. 1. roken 2. old 3. angerous 4. ark 5. irty 6. cy 7. ippery 9. oman 10. ockroaches 11. ice

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This work by kellymorrissey.com is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license. Name: ______Date: How many times can you find the hidden word? 1. broken drokenbrakenbrokenbrokeprokenborken 2. cold clodclodcaldcoldcodlcoldcaldculdcold 3. dangerous dongerousdangeruosdangerousdangero 4. dark parkqarkdarkbarkbarkdarkparkqarkdark 5. dirty birtypirtydirtydritydritydirtyditryditrydirtydir 6. icy iycciryicwicyiiccyyicyisyisyiccyicyccicycc 7. slippery silperysilpperyslipperysliperyslipprysilppyry 8. light liqhtlidhtlightfightnightwightlightliteligght 10. woman womenwamonmowanwomanwomanwo 11. mice misemiccemiicemicemisemissemicemice

1. icy are stairs the .

2. are stairs slippery the .

3. stairs the dangerous are .

4. broken is light the .

This work by kellymorrissey.com is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license. Name: ______Date: 5. the dangerous hall is.

6. dirty the are stairs .

7. apartment cold the is .

This work by kellymorrissey.com is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license. Name: ______Date: A: Do you have a problem? B: Yes, I do. No, I don’t. A: What’s the problem? B: The ______is ______. Name Problem? What’s the problem? yes / no

yes / no

yes / no fridge toilet slippery stove tap dirty hall window broken apartment dark cockroaches stairs dangerous mice light icy Name: ______Date:

broken apartment toilet cold house window dangerous woman hall dark cockroach stairs dirty mice my icy fridge is slippery stove are light tap problem Name: ______Date:

Dear Landlord,

My is broken.

Please fix it.

Thank you.

Name: ______Date: 1. Kelly’s landlord is good. yes no

2. Toe Ngui’s landlord is good. yes no

3. Salwa has a problem. yes no

4. Elma has mice. yes no

5. Salwa’s apartment is cold. yes

6. Kelly has a small problem. yes no

7. Fareed has a big problem. yes no Name: ______Date: 8. Elma likes cockroaches. yes

9. Kelly’s stairs are broken. yes no Name: ______Date: Some sentences are not true. Can we make them true?

Name: ______Date:

Font You will need to install KG Primary Penmanship Lined font, available for an optional donation from Kimberly Geswein or Dafont.com, on every machine on which you plan to open and use this document. Otherwise some pages will not render correctly. This work This activity pack was created to supplement a graded version that I made of the CLEO ESL booklet for CLB 1 in their Tenancy Rights series – Maintenance and Repairs, available from their website cleo.on.ca. In order to avoid embarrassment for students regarding vermin, I always begin by telling them about my own travails with mice or how everyone back in my hometown of Little Rock, AR, deals with roaches, even very tidy people. Use I always walk students through worksheet instructions before handing them out, so the written instructions at the top are more for you than for my students. I hope most of the worksheets are self-explanatory.

When I use these materials, I activate the schema/prior knowledge, exploring the topic first orally. By the time learners have their first printed matter in hand, they will have heard the story a few times, looked at the photos, discussed it and summarized it orally.

I strive to remember to go back and forth between the parts (phonemic awareness, sight word recognition) and the whole (meaning), recycling the same words as many times and in as great a variety of ways as possible throughout the week, weeks or month.

I also go through each worksheet orally before doing it with them in writing. For example, for a True/False test, I would first hold the sheet up so they know it’s coming, and then drill them orally to give them the confidence that they know the answers to the questions. “Deng is a mom. Yes or no?” They all say, “No!” I smile and say, “See? You can do it.” Name: ______Date: Another way I support the learners is to pull up the worksheet on the projector / white board so we can do the first few together. I never proceed until all students answer my “Is it okay?” with “Okay!” The first time you use a particular type of worksheet with learners with interrupted formal education (LIFE), you can expect them to have no idea what is going on or what to do with it. That is why I use the same types of activities week after week—so that the entire cognitive load is devoted to the content and not the form of the exercise. Their lives are stressful enough as it is. Class should be fun.

On Friday we always play BINGO and then go to the computer lab after break where it’s always the same two or three websites, the primary one being Spelling City. There they can choose which game to play with the week’s word bank and sentences.

We usually play the flyswatter game either late Thursday or Friday before BINGO. But before we even play the flyswatter game, we pass the laser pointer around the room giving each student a chance to practice recognizing the words we’ve worked on all week. With 24 words from the week’s word bank spread randomly across the board in large font, I say, “Show me doctor… great. Now show me nurse. Good job. Show me temperature,” and so on. I start with the strongest student and end with the weakest, of course. This gives the last student an opportunity to watch as the words are identified eight or nine times before her turn. After that warm-up, they are ready for the next activity

My students all know what to expect now. They know as soon as I pass out the bingo cards on Friday to start copying the words from the word bank at the bottom into the BINGO grid in a random fashion so that no two students have the same pattern.

To see other ways I recycle the same vocabulary throughout the unit, take a look at my blog at kelly.blogspot.ca and click on the Hello, teachers! link to go to that page. There I have a few photos of other materials I create for use with our LEA stories and the readers.

If you have any questions, suggestions, corrections or comments, please email me at [email protected] or visit my blog at https://joyofesl.blogspot.ca. Cheers!