Mini Book

Four Ways to Use the Mini Book

1. Unit test

Instead of giving your students a traditional test, have them create a "mini book" which summarises the content of the previous unit.

2. Revision tool

Have your students create a "mini book" for each new topic that they study. These can later be used for revision purposes.

3. Vocabulary book

Have your students use a mini book to record new vocabulary. Ask them to create themed books (e.g. adjectives, days of the week)

4. Book reports

Make book reports more interesting. Ask students to create "mini" versions of the book you are reading. If you are giving a test, you could allow students to use only the notes that will fit into a "mini book".

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Adjective Cards

Four Ways to use the Adjective Cards

1. Character Study

If you are studying a book or novel, this is a good way to do some character analysis. Show one of the words at random and ask students to tell you which character can be described using this word and why.

2. Adjective Discussion Starter

Give pairs of students a full set of the cards. Students turn the cards over so that they cannot see the words. Students take turns to draw one of the cards. They must then discuss a time that they acted in such a way (e.g. a time that you were "Angry").

3. Adjective Flash Cards

Give the words to second language learners as a vocabulary list and have them use the cards as flash cards.

4. Adjective Charades

Play charades using the adjective cards. Students act out the words on the cards and their classmates must guess what the word is.

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Word Wheel

Four Ways to Use the Word Wheel

1. Story inspiration

Ask students to use the wheel to come up with a story idea (e.g. “an explorer” “is given” “a ring”).

2. Tenses

Use the wheel when teaching tenses. Ask students to change sentences from the wheel into a given tense. (e.g. “An old lady takes a photo” put into past tense becomes “An old lady took a photo”)

3. Subjects and objects

Use the wheel to teach students the difference between the subject and the object of a sentence. Point out that all of the words on the outer wheel are subjects as they are performing the action, and that all of the words on the inner circle are the objects.

4. Prepositions

Use the wheel when teaching prepositions. Ask students to finish off the sentences that the wheel creates by telling the reader where the event took place. Ask students to underline the prepositions they have used (e.g. “A dancer steals a plant at the garden centre”).

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