Vocabulary Knowledge
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One of the most useful categories of vocabulary that students of English can learn, are words for objects commonly used during lessons. Use the Classroom Object Vocabulary Set to teach your students vocabulary words for things that they may need to request during classes, as well as words that may be useful for giving instructions, such as "please go to the blackboard." This set of flashcards includes several compound word cards, which are designed to make it super easy to explain which two words form each compound word.
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Phonics & Reading Skills
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Want to simultaneously provide your students with animal vocabulary recall practice, while developing their phonics skills? Phonics Fish is a the card Go Fish with a special phonics twist! The back of each card has a phonics clue that increase students' likelihood of guessing which of their fellow players has the card they need to form a set. To play this game, participants take turns using the sentence pattern "Do you have a _________________?" to try to collect a full set of 3 matching cards that they can then lay down on in front of them to score points. This game offers many sets of cards for different learning topics. Phonics Fish Set A and Set B are made up of common classroom object vocabulary cards.
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Speaking Activities & Games
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This set of 16 multi-purpose Classroom Cards can be used to play a deduction card game that emphasizes uses common classroom/school vocabulary words, including 'teacher,' 'student,' 'desk,' 'board,' and other objects commonly found in classrooms. Played in partner-pairs of two, participants take turns being either the asker and the answerer. The answerer draws a single card from a set of 16 cards (but keeps it secret), while the asker lays out an identical set of 16 cards in front of them. The asker then needs ask a series of simple questions to deduce which of the 16 cards in front of them matches the "secret card" held by the answerer. The sentence pattern "Can you see a _________________ in the classroom?" is used by the asker in this game, nouns being systematically inserted into the blank. After using this sentence pattern to ask a question, based on the answerer's response, the asker can flip any cards that CAN'T be a match to the "secret card" face-down, until only one classroom card remains face up. Note: The teacher's outfit on the cards for this activity varies, which allows for the cards to be used for another activity, but for the purpose of the activity described here, students should be instructed to ignore the clothing differences. However, the same set of 16 cards can of course be used separately to practice clothing related vocabulary.
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The set of 16 multi-purpose Classroom Cards used with the activity described just above can ALSO be utilized to have a discussion with students about classroom safety. You may have noticed that some of the Classroom Cards feature an ax in the classroom. Although this may seem odd, it is intentional and intended as an extreme example of something that is clearly unsafe.
Students can then be asked whether each of a series of objects is 'safe' or 'dangerous.' Students can be taught to respond that a 'book' is 'safe,' but an 'ax' is dangerous. This may be an appropriate time to discuss use and access to scissors in your learning environment. You may wish to clarify which pairs of scissors are safe for use by children and which pairs of scissors are only to be touched/used by an adult.
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