are you looking for engaging activities for your English language learners
involve writing that they will not only enjoy but then they will also want to
write more well by the end of this video I'm going to show you three activities
that your students will not only enjoy but they're going to learn valuable
writing skills using the popular app called tick tock don't worry if you or
your students do not have access to this app you can still incorporate these
activities in your classroom for weekly language teaching tips resources
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notification bell so you don't miss a wednesday video my students excitement
to write has soared since ever since I implemented these three simple
activities my students enjoy watching each other's tick tock responses and
then they're more willing to do follow-up writing activities that I will
show you at the end of many of my lessons I like to have my students
reflect on that day's learning so I can assess what they have learned by writing
a quick exit ticket and it's just a simple sheet of paper where they might
have an assignment where they might write one thing they've learned and a
question that they may have so if I did in a tick-tock form it would look a
little bit like this well I learned today that toilets flush in the key of E
flat but my question is what was the person doing when they found this out
for your newcomer students and your beginners what you can do is have a
sentence them on the board as well as a word bank so that they can complete the
sentence independently if they don't feel comfortable completing the tic-tock
that is absolutely fine you can just have them write on an exit ticket as you
normally would have them do for activity number two you can have your students
write a quick summary of maybe one to two or three sentences of what they
learned a reaction or anything of that matter to the content that you learn
that day and if you have them do it in a tick-tock form it would look like this
so in today's class we watched a little excerpt from Star Wars and then we've
read the script and it was about a a frog who come visit your son to
collect bed to modify this lesson for your newcomer students you can have them
a draw picture as a picture that will summarize what they've read or their
reaction to the story and then for the tik-tok aspect they can actually do the
free draw right in front of the video and then for your students who are at
the beginner towards the intermediate levels you can have them complete a
paragraph frame and then you can have a word bank as a support if needed so they
know what are their options where they can fill in the paragraph frame and then
they can read it directly to the video and if again if they don't feel
comfortable they can just simply submit the writing paragraph ring this last
activity is probably my students favorite activity and it's where they
find a song that's either a reaction or summarizes what they thought the story
was about for example if the story was sad that we covered in class their
tick-tock might look a little bit like this
in this activity you're going to want to aid your students in finding the
appropriate hashtag stickers and of course a song that's appropriate that
connects with the theme as well as what I really like about this activity is
that for students who are newcomers and beginners they don't even have to sing
anything or they don't even have to lip-sync if they don't feel comfortable
just simply pantomiming or dancing will emulate how they feel and their reaction
to the story I have titles of two books that I highly
recommend for your students if you're looking for ways to increase the
creativity and get your students writing in class the first book is called
cliffhanger writing prompts 31 page story starters that fire up kids and the
second book is called story manic classic which is more in the form of
games and the students can tell stories in a game format and they have other
activities as well and it's more in the way of a warm-up so that your students
get ready for other types of writing that you will implement in your
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