WBT has really paid off in my classroom!

My students respond well to the rules, teach-ok, and the scoreboard. I confess, I need to do a much better job with implementing gestures. The kids love SuperSpeed 1000, and seem to enjoy (to a lesser degree) SuperSpeed Math.

Are there any resources available for grade level specific vocabulary?

Also, any suggestions for helping students with reading comprehension, interpretation, and reflecton?


~ Caleb
5th/6th Grade

I am happy to hear that things are going well in your classroom with WBT. I would suggest downloading the Crazy Reading Professor Game to use to help with comprehension. My students love it.

What grade level do you teach?

Andrea

Hi there! I used to teach Third grade and for vocabulary I always provided a gesture for our vocabulary words. It helped me to see who was following along in our story, because when the vocabulary word would come, it was a signal to me who was following along when the students would all say the word in unison and do the gesture-handmotion. What was really cool was how excited students would get when we would see words from past lessons in a story or a textbook. During one particular short non-fiction piece the students identified 38 words from previous weeks! They were so excited (how fun to see that much excitement over words). If I was teaching third again I would say adding a picture to go along with the word/gesture would be good. And I always kept our math vocabulary up on the wall so the students could practice being questioner/answerer and teach each other the vocabulary on the wall (One person would say "What are parallel lines?" and the other person would say "Lines that go in the same direction and never meet", while acting out the gesture.

I would say to make it more "game-like" and to not take up wall space, you could make up vocabulary word lists that you would add to all year (then you could keep the vocabulary from past stories on those lists--for me I always changed the vocabulary that went with the story we were reading once the story changed). YOu could pass out the updated vocabulary lists each week and have students do a "Vocabulary Superspeed", where they would go through the words and do the words and the gestures/definitions.

I don't know....just a thought:cheer:

Try the Crazy Professor Reading game for comprehension.

I know of many teachers who use the superspeed format and create their own superspeed with vocabulary list from each subject area. For example, they take ALL of the vocabulary words from the science text and make it into a superspeed list. The kids will have read each science term hundreds of times throughout the year while playing the game. Then when the word is introduced in the book, you can assign a gesture to go along with it.