Listening to instructions

This is an exercise I’ve prepared for my 5th year primary class. It’s a listening exercise using "voice-thread" to review directions. You can use a far simpler version without directions just using the numbers of the squares to work listening for numbers (2nd -4th year primary). Here as I’m working with 5th year, we’re making it more complex and they have to follow directions from the black reference square.

If you click on the image it will take you to the voicethread exercise



We’ve done similar exercises in class so the students are used to this kind of exercise. Once you have the grid, you can record lots of different instructions, making it simpler or more difficult as you require.

Each student has a copy of the grid and a link to the voice-thread so that they can listen to the instructions. They know to pause the listening exercise as often as they want and they can listen as often as they want. The students have to follow the instructions, drawing or writing the correct things in the corresponding boxes.

They love it!

More wordy fun!

I've made this using a resource on the "teachers-direct website" . It's an interactive wordsearch for students to practice irregular past tenses. This is ideal for 5th and 6th year primary. I'll explain how I did it, the whole process takes less than 10 minutes!

If you click on "make your own wordsearch" which opens a new page with a few easy steps.
1st - give a name to your wordsearch.
2nd - select the age of students you are making it for (this helps other teachers find your puzzle and share resources)
3rd - select: grid size - 15 x 15; wordsearch type - interactive wordsearch; text - lower case then click - "next" and a new page opens with a space for you to put in the words you want to use in your wordsearch.
4th - I just copy pasted a table of irregular veb endings from any of the hundreds you can find on the net, but you can use anything, animals, fruit, halloween vocab etc and you can use as many words as you want. I used about 44!
5th - select word direction - all directions and unused letters - normal (this is incase the programme needs to add extra letters to fill spaces).
then click preview which shows you how the wordsearch will look.
Then you have an option to add a description to help other people find your puzzle and you press create. All done!
You now have a pdf version and a link to the interactive wordsearch on the web.
Here's mine!