Classroom Activities for Young Learners

Teaching young learners is different with teaching adult. The teacher can not teach them like teaching student’s college. Young learners like fun activities. They are learning by playing. Therefore, the teacher have to choose the interesting activities which can make them learn. There are many activities that can teacher do in teaching young learners.

The first activities is word grid. Word grid is word game is exactly like a word search; only with cool, hip, and rad new features. Word Grid takes the fun of word hunting and makes it a competitive race for the time. The students must create words from the tiles that are adjacent or diagonal to each other. Word Grid has the unique function of allowing students to use words on the other side of the board; for instance, if they have a letter on the very right of the board, the letter on the very left on the same row is considered adjacent as well. This also applies diagonally, allowing you a whole lot of freedom in word construction.

The second one is word chain. Word chain is another version of word grid. Pupils have to spot as many as many words as they can in along string of letters,some of which form both the first and last elements of words ,such as ‘fruit’ and ‘vegetables’ chain.

The next activities is magic words grid. Magic word grids are less demanding to make up than full crosswords . Not all the adjacent letters have to make words. The pupils fill in words across and boxed vertical section reveals the magic word.

The other is grouping words . Grouping words puzzles both for conceptual training informing sets and for revising vocabulary families. They can be done with a time limit or without , and you can supply some of the headings for groups and/or allows pupils to make up their own headings for groups.

There are many others activities to make the students interest in learning English, but in this paper the writer only write some of them.