Using wordle to revise key words with year 7 (11 years old).
This week was revision week as students will be assessed next week about what they've learnt so far.
I had booked the ict room for year 7 (11 years old) so I decided to part the lesson into 2.
First they would revise on www.linguascope.com.
This website is great for year 7 and 8 (11 -12 years old) to revise the main vocabulary, just words not sentences, nor grammar. It's full of fun games such as the memory game, noughts and crosses... to remember the key words. You can also print out worksheets to recap in class. My only concern with it is that you have to pay to access it.
The second part of the lesson was to go to www.wordle.net and create a presentation of the words the students needed to remember for the test. That was the first time I was using this website with a class and it was great! The students enjoyed the end product and playing with the font, layout and editing. I had planned for them to print out their work so they could take it home and use it as a revision sheet. Unfortunately or fortunately enough, the printer was running out of cartdrige so I told the students they could save their work on to the gallery and then access it from home or the library (if they didn't have the Internet at home). So they saved it and were amazed to see their work could be seen online by anyone on the Internet. It was great to see their joy about sharing it with the online community!!!
So you can see some of my students work which I am very proud of and I have noticed going back on wordle.net that some of them have gone back to it since we had the lesson. That is the best proof the lesson was a success because the students were engaged:) (again, thanks to icpjones)
