Lessons and Ideas

Spread the words on Twitter with the hashtag #favword Last night, we had the honor of hosting a discussion about vocabulary with the creative and dedicated English educators of #engchat. Two topics came up again and again: word ownership & love of language We discussed how it is crucial for students to not only learn new words, but feel comfortable with them, use them, own them. And several teachers remarked upon successful moments where they'd shared their love of language with students. We had an idea. Let's start a Twitter campaign to promote word ownership and love of language. To…

Two Truths & A Lie started out as an ice-breaker or a party game. The rules are simple. You say three things about yourself: two are true, and one is a lie. The rest of the group tries to pick out the lie. And in the process, you get to know some ludicrous things about your new friends or classmates. It's a fun, quick way to build classroom culture. But we've taken this game a step further with The Week in Rap. Each week, we create a varying printable activity to accompany the video. This week, students can play Two…

Teach Figurative Language With Flocabulary [jwplayer file=https://s3.amazonaws.com/flocabulary/media-jrev/figurative-language-media.mp4 image=http://flocabulary.s3.amazonaws.com/images-jrev/figurative-language-image.jpg] Check out the lyrics and more.Listen to Flocabulary’s Figurative Language song. You’ll learn all about allusions, as well as metaphors, simile and more. Our alliteration lesson got your consonants clanging. Hyperbole was the best literary term ever. And last week, you made your words jump with personification. But today, we bring you the literary term that knows about all the cool places in town. It's read all the great books, seen all the best movies, and it's not afraid to tell you about them. Ladies and gentleman, meet allusion. Allusion Definition: A direct…