Chapter 6: Celebrate to Validate

Classroom Celebrations

 

Yes, knowing you are out there reading the book and the blog, I want to hear from you. :) Chapter 6 is a fun chapter, but I'm not sold that games from chapter 5 and celebrations from chapter 6 are BOTH necessary components of vocabulary instruction.  It seems a bit redundant. 

Many of the celebration games in this chapter sound like fun.  Deal or No Deal, Jeopardy, Charades, even the block party bring fun, laughter, and repetition to vocabulary instruction.  Yet, does it need to be a separate piece to the Word Nerds?  Time is precious in the classroom.  Is this something you will use?

It wouldn't take much to add these games into the form for games from chapter 5.  These games are definitely whole group and wouldn't be used in small groups...
Someone, try and sell this one on me!