Brainstorming Techniques

Previously, I published a post on "Brainstorming and Mind Mapping" with a link to a very helpful site. This post contains a video that shows and explains different techniques that can be used when brainstorming, either individually or in a group.

Brainstorming and Mind Mapping

Brainstorming is one of the most effective tools used in writing. In order to gather up all the ideas in your mind and lay them out in a way that could help you create a great piece of writing is through using the tool of brainstorming, or another term for it, mind mapping. The link  provided below shows what is the concept or tool of brainstorming, and how it could help in many other aspects besides essay writing ( a video will be posted later on showing different techniques that can help with this process).

Link: https://www.mindtools.com/brainstm.html

Articles in Grammar

This link is for a grammar lesson on "Articles" and how they should be placed in a sentence.

http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/article.htm

Scratch: Web 2.0 Tool!

A creative and full of imagination Web 2.0 tool. With scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations- and share your creations with the others in the online community. Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively- essential skills for life in the 21st century. Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It's provided FREE OF CHARGE!

Human Adjective Bingo

Here is a fun and entertaining activity for a grammar lesson on adjectives. Students will be paired with a partner in this activity, the object of this activity is to see how students identify adjectives. They must follow the following steps in order to accomplish the "Adjective Bingo Board":

Step 1: take a bingo board and some old magazines.

Step 2: cut out pictures of people from the magazines and stick each picture, using glue, in a blank square on the                board.

Step 3: once the glue dries, its time to play human adjective bingo! 

How to Play: this is how the game works, each student will say an adjective, if the adjective matches a person on the bingo board then the student covers that square; and when someone yells out "BINGO!", their board has to be checked to see if they correct or not. At the end, the teacher will have to go over the adjectives and see if they really match the picture or not.

For more fun activities, visit: http://busyteacher.org/17367-practicing-adjectives-10-fun-activities.html

Grammar Games for All

Here is  a page full of MANY games for all students of all ages to help them with their grammar. Just visit the link below and get started.

http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la-grammar.html

Katy Perry- I'm Wide Awake and Progressive Tenses

 Well we all listen to music, and probably most of us have heard the song "Wide Awake" for Katy Perry; So here is a a grammar lesson found within this song and that can explain grammar tenses in a a fun and musical way.