Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Some "Eye Catching" Strategies

Kicking It Into High Gear….With Some Fun!
This week, my students seemed to truly enjoy reviewing and sharing strategies with each other!  We started off by creating a strategy “review” brainstorm together as a class.  Next the students worked in groups on a collaborative activity.  The students each received a colored piece on paper that they carefully cut into strips.  Then they created groups of four with other students that had different colored paper and traded strips.     Next, they discussed the brainstormed strategies and decided which where the most powerful (These are the ones they wrote on their strips).  The strips were then glue together (paper chain style).
After students had finished their paper chains, they began to work on “personalizing” their strategies.  Each student used the letters of their name, and created a strategy filled acrostic.  They had so much fun listening to each other’s ideas and helping each other out!  There excitement was contagious!


I have included links to both of the documents that we used.


LINKS BELOW for MY TPT STORE and GOOGLE DOCS:
Student Friendly Test Prep Paper Chain Activity 

FREE Name Acrostic Activity Pages Link


JUST ADDED!!! FREE Framed Pages for Name Acrostics


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20 comments:

  1. ~Stephanie April 11, 2012 at 9:24 PM

    I love the idea of using the student's name letters to create the acrostic for the strategies. GREAT!!

    ~Stephanie
    Teaching in Room 6

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  2. Andrea McEvoyApril 12, 2012 at 4:49 AM

    I love how you infused test prep with poetry! I am going to have to try this!!! Thanks for sharing!

    Andrea
    One Teacher's Take

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  3. John-Paul KApril 12, 2012 at 2:34 PM

    I may be clicking on the wrong link, but I can't seem to find the Name Acrostic file.

    Love your blog!
    John-Paul

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    1. Working 4 the ClassroomApril 12, 2012 at 2:46 PM

      I reloaded the google docs link for the Name Acrostic file. Give it a try! If it still doesn't work, email me at patsykitty@gmail.com and I will email it directly to you.

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  4. John-Paul KApril 12, 2012 at 4:59 PM

    Thanks so much!

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    1. Working 4 the ClassroomApril 12, 2012 at 6:02 PM

      No problem, sorry for the delay...I hope you got a chance to enter the give away on my "Celebration" post.

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  5. John-Paul KApril 12, 2012 at 6:39 PM

    This will sound dumb, but how did you adapt the sheets for different length names?

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    1. Working 4 the ClassroomApril 12, 2012 at 6:54 PM

      Not dumb at all, I have the luxury of a personal copier in my classroom, so I did some actual cutting, taping and copying to create the pages you see in the pictures. If you give me a little bit, I will make a similar set of pages and get them posted to google docs for you....

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    2. Working 4 the ClassroomApril 12, 2012 at 7:21 PM

      Here is the google link for the framed pages for the name acrostics...
      https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9tqWtyOw2fSNHBTTlJ5R1dLQ3M

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  6. AnonymousApril 13, 2012 at 5:49 AM

    I can't click on the link.WIll you try reposting? I also was trying to figure out how to adapt it to different name lengths.

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    1. Working 4 the ClassroomApril 13, 2012 at 6:26 AM

      I just tried the links and they took me to the shared google docs...You must click on the words. The first google link has the acrostic letters and example and the second has the frames for the different length names (from 2 letters to 8). Try again (clicking on the colored links within the post itself) and see if it works.

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  7. Mandy NealApril 15, 2012 at 4:02 PM

    Love this idea! So cute!

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  8. UnknownApril 16, 2012 at 1:58 PM

    This is fantastic! I will use this next week before our science test Thursday! :)

    The Science Penguin

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  9. YearntoLearnApril 22, 2012 at 8:55 AM

    Love the test acrostic! I just ran across your blog and am loving all your ideas. New follower here for sure. Stop on by and visit me.


    Yearn to Learn Blog

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  10. UnknownFebruary 20, 2015 at 8:07 AM

    Such a great idea! Thank you for sharing!
    Christine
    http://math-central.blogspot.com/

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  11. UnknownFebruary 20, 2015 at 8:12 AM

    Such a great idea! Thank you for sharing!
    Christine
    http://math-central.blogspot.com/

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  12. UnknownMarch 23, 2016 at 6:41 PM

    "There excitement was contagious!" This is a copy and paste from this page in your blog. Proofread what you type before publishing.

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  13. UnknownMarch 23, 2016 at 6:49 PM

    "Next, they discussed the brainstormed strategies and decided which where the most powerful (These are the ones they wrote on their strips).

    Where or were?

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  14. UnknownMarch 23, 2016 at 6:51 PM

    "Next, they discussed the brainstormed strategies and decided which where the most powerful (These are the ones they wrote on their strips).

    Where or were?

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  15. UnknownMarch 23, 2016 at 6:56 PM

    "There excitement was contagious!" This is a copy and paste from this page in your blog. Proofread what you type before publishing.

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