Examples: English

1. Extensive Reading... Our Reflection & Feedback

2. Writing Good Captions
Working in pairs, students discussed to provide a caption to a photo using the general guideline they learnt in the lesson. They posted their captions in the slide of the photo they are assigned to in a shared presentation. Students then did a 'virtual' gallery walk to provide feedback to their peers before the teacher provided feedback to conclude the activity.


Link to the shared presentation (2011, S1-04 Class English Blog)


3. From Slogon to Text
Students elaborated the "intended" message of a given slogon, taking the cue from the slogon and the visual given in an advertisement. 

Link to the shared presentation (2011, S1-01 Class English Blog)



4. "Descriptors in Context"
Onomatopoeic Poems (2010, S1-07)
In this activity, students wrote poems that focused on describing the sounds of a particular action, event or scene. They then posted the poem in wordle to generate a visual representation of poem, which highlighted words that were emphasized in the writing. On top of this, peers who view the visual could also learn next adjectives related to the given context.

Example 1: Factory
Wordle: Factory

Example 2: Haunted House
Wordle: Haunted House

Example 3: Battlefield
Wordle: Battlefield


 5. Narratives... Analysis of Movie and Characters
On their own, students learnt the "Narrative" structure to be used to analyse a narrative. Through the scaffolds, they demonstrated their understanding by identifying and elaborating each aspect of a narrative in a movie clip.

Illustration from 2012 eLearning Week Lesson 1
  • Activity 1: Using K-W-L, Students penned down their prior knowledge (what they knew) and what they wanted to know more about the "Narratives".
  • Activity 2: Through this activity, teachers were able to evaluate to what extent students have understood the narrative structure through their elaboration on each aspect of the structure when analysis a video clip
  • Activity 3: In this activity, students selected a character to describe its personalities. From the consolidated descriptions, students saw how others described the same characteristics, and therefore having a more 'holistic assessment' of the character.


6. Distilling Information from Speech
In this activity, students watched the speech and attempted to draw out characteristics and behaviours exhibited by an effective speaker. They shared their thoughts in the stickies and posted them on the common wall for discussion.
  • Class S1-01: Click HERE to view
  • Class S1-02: Click HERE to view 




7. Expressing & Elaborating views
In this activity, students were given two tasks to express their views and provide reasons to support/ substantiate their point of view.


8. Summarising Key Ideas
At the end of the lesson, students use a mindmapping tool to summarise key points of strategies learn



  

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