My Christmas break project was to find a better way to teach the concept of pronouns to my younger students. It's such a hard concept for them to understand with the Pronoun Parade cards and using pictures from books (even though I love those strategies for my older groups.) My solution was to use the sales catalogs I have stock piled since Thanksgiving for therapy activities to make pronoun books.
Here's what the finished product looks like....(7 hours later)
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| This is the second of my pronoun books. The first one is for he, she, and they. |
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| I tell what each word is used for twice with a single image. Then, I let them look at two pages with single images and examples of sentences they could say. The next step is for them to make up sentences on their own. |
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| Walmart, Target, and ToysRUs had the best ads. I also used pictures from Belk, JC Penny, and Kmart. |
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| The key to the book is to have just enough pictures on each page to avoid sensory overload. |
3-ring binder
15 sheet protectors (you can do more or less)
Basic copier paper or construction paper.
1 Sharpie
Lots of sales ads (I had a month's worth)
Scissors
Lots of free time
I love this! You could actually use making the book as a therapy activity for an older group of kids!
ReplyDeleteYep. I've made parts of speech posters with my older groups in the past. This is definitely something a group could make too. :)
Deletedo you have any strategies for teaching I, we and you and then having the student us the correct pronoun when speaking.
ReplyDeleteI usually do a lot of modeling for those.
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