Teaching Vocabulary in the World Language Classroom

From New Teacher Handbook

Vocab games and activities

Hangman- Have kids do the work and have them run the game.

Pictionary/Charades- Have kids work in groups of 3 or 4 for maximum student involvement. Give them the lists of words before(with English words to make life easier on you)

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Bingo- Not just for numbers anymore, have them fill out the bingo cards with their vocab words in target langauge. You call them out in English.

Storytelling- You tell story with as many vocab words as possible for comprehensible input so they learn vocab in context. Try to limit 3-5 a day.

Tic-Tac-Toe- Just tic-tac-toe but in order to put their X or O, they need to get a question correct.

Scatagories- Have groups of 4 or 5. Give them a category such as fruits. They have