Have you ever been in a situation where you just couldn't think of the word? Maybe you needed an ingredient for a dish or an item from a hardware store. How did you get it? Did you ask for help? Did you gesture with your hands to describe the size and shape, describe the texture or color, explain what it would be used for? If you did any of those things, than you were engaging in circumlocution - talking in circles. These spanish posters (available in Spanish, French, and English) help students do just that. I get my students in the habit of using these posters in spanish when we define vocabulary terms. Instead of writing escuela = school, we practice writing "un lugar para estudiantes" (a place for students). I gain buy-in from students by telling them we are writing riddles for our classmates to guess.
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Pam Lester
4/5/2018 06:04:51 pm
This is exactly the kind of bulletin board that I have been thinking about doing. Thank you for sharing the visuals! This is something my students can truly benefit from. And I like how you describe it as "writing riddles" for the other students to guess. Very creative!
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Gloria Carman Woolrich
1/7/2020 02:04:20 am
Very good and useful idea!
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