USING FLASHCARDS AND WORD CARDS
WEBINAR
? May, 2012
Wendy Arnold
www.elt-consultants.com
wendy@elt-consultants.com
www.elt-consultants.com
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Why use
flashcards?
REVIEW LEARNING STYLES
What do you know
about learning
styles?
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Learning styles
Children have different learning styles.
Visual learners learn best when they have lots of :
• pictures
• real items
• people’s faces
• gestures as stimuli.
Auditory learners learn most effectively:
• from hearing new language
• being given lots of opportunity to speak.
Kinesthetic learners benefit:
From linking language to action (this can be a challenge in the
classroom).
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LEARNING STYLES
Teaching the way
that learners learn
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The multisensory approach
We know that learning is made more
meaningful by acknowledging that learners
learn in different way. Children are no exception,
they need
VISUAL
AUDITORY
KINESTHETIC
activities
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VISUAL learners make sense of the
world through their
Day 1 - Tea
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VISUAL
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VISUAL
Day 1 - Teacher training
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VISUAL
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Day 1 - Teacher training
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AUDITORY learners make sense
through their
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KINESTHETIC learners make sense
through their
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KINESTHETIC
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English for Palestine has been designed to
meet all these learner
needs and to motivate learners of different
abilities.
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What type of learner are you?
Why do you think it is useful to know
your learning style as a teacher?
Teachers tend to teach in the learning
type they are strongest and this
might mean they are not doing
enough for the other learning
styles!
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Workshop 5
TEACHING USING
FLASHCARDS AND
WORD CARDS
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WORD CARDS
REMEMBER
You can make your own word cards! This may be an
option if the pupils at the back of the classroom
struggle to read the text from a distance.
OR
You can download the word cards from the
website www.englishforpalestine.com
password: Palestine – BUT PRINT THEM A4 SIZE!
MAKING WORD CARDS
• Use A4 paper or card
• Draw writing lines to make your writing neat
and tidy
• Decide on ONE writing style
• Use pencil first
• Go over the pencil with a thick marker pen
• Don’t squeeze the words in!
WORD CARDS
Make a template!
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Draw the lines with pencil
Write the text in pencil
Trace over the pencil lines with a
marker pen
This is A4 paper, DON’T squash the
letters – this is the size you need!
Games using
flashcards
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Matching using word cards and
flashcards
I spy (Grades 1,2,3,4,5,6)
• You can play this game using the classroom, the
poster or flashcards. Say, e.g. I spy something
yellow. / I spy something beginning with w. The
children have to look round the room/ on the
poster / on the flashcards and guess what the
thing is, e.g. a yellow ball, a window, etc.
• Once children are familiar with the game, they
can play in pairs / small groups, taking turns to
say I spy …
• This is a good game for practising speaking and
vocabulary.
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I spy
I spy something beginning
with bbbbbbb
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Yes or no? (Grades 1,2,3)
• Show flashcards one by one.
• Sometimes give the correct word and sometimes
the wrong one.
• If correct, then the children repeat it.
• If incorrect, the children do not say the word and
they cross their arms.
• You can make the game more challenging by
getting the children to correct you, e.g.
No, dog. or No, it’s a dog.
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These are bags!
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Look and guess (Grades 1,2,3)
• Cover a flashcard picture with paper.
• Reveal the picture gradually.
• The children guess what it is from the detail.
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Making words (Grades 1,2,3,4)
• Put the letter flashcards for a word (e.g. b, a, g)
on the board in random order.
• The children work out the word, putting the
letters in the correct order.
• At this stage make sure you choose simple words
that are spelled phonetically – i.e. there is a
simple and direct correlation between the sound
and written form of the letters (so cat, dog, etc.,
not date or goat).
• You can make the activity easier by supplying the
picture flashcards for support.
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Making words
g d o
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Letter/Sound matching (Grades 1,2)
• Display picture flashcards and the letter
wordcards for the starting sounds of the
pictures for the children to match (e.g. bag
and b).
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Games used in Period
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BUT all these games
can be used from
Grades 1 to 6
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What’s missing? / Who’s missing?
(Grade 1,2,3,4,5,6)
• Show a set of flashcards (or wordcards you
have made).
• Give the children a fixed amount of time to
look at the pictures/words and memorise
them.
• Tell them to close their eyes, then remove one
of the cards.
• The children tell you which card has been
removed.
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date
orange
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Sets (Grades 1,2)
• Choose two sets of flashcards.
• Write up a heading for each,e.g. Food (with a small drawing of an
egg) and Animals (with a small drawing of a cat).
• Shuffle the flashcards and leave them face down on your desk.
• Put the class into two teams.
• Each team takes it in turn to send two children to the
front.
• One takes a card and says the word. The other puts
it in the correct set.
• The rest of the class says whether they are correct or not.
• Each child wins 1 point for getting the right topic set.
You can make the game more challenging by using more than two sets.
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Animals
Food
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The memory game (Grade 1)
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Put the class into four teams.
Choose and display four flashcards, three from one set and one from another.
Elicit the words.
Give the children 20 seconds to look at the cards and memorise them.
Then take the cards down.
Ask Team 1 to tell you what the cards were: they score 1 point for each one they
can remember. If they remember them all, they get a bonus point.
If they forget some, the other teams get the chance to ‘steal’ double-points: they
get 2 points for every missing item.
Repeat with different sequences of cards, with a different team answering first
each time.
The team with the most points is the winner.
You can make the game more challenging by increasing the number of
flashcards and choosing randomly from different sets.
Day 2 - Teacher training
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Odd one out (Grades 1,2)
• Display in random order three flashcards from
one unit and one from another unit, e.g.
meat, kunafeh, ice cream,butterfly.
• The children identify the odd one out, giving a
reason (in Arabic if necessary), e.g. butterfly is
an animal not a food. Accept any reasonable
answer.
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Day 2 - Teacher training
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The picture game (Grade 1)
(PICTURE RUNNING RACE DICTATION)
• Put the class into four teams: 1, 2, 3 and 4.
• Give each team a piece of paper. Put one flashcard set and the
number flashcards in two piles, face down, at the front of the class.
• One child from each team comes to the front of the class.
• Show them the top card from each pile, without showing
the rest of the class.
• The children run back to their team and tell another team member
what to draw (e.g. six pencils.)
• The first team to show you a correct drawing wins 2 points; the
second team wins 1 point.
• Repeat until all the children have had a turn at being the runner and
the person drawing.
• The team with the most points wins.
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THANK YOU 