Workflow Plan: Using the Explain Everything App to Capture Samples of Student Language in a Semi-free Oral Activity
| Description: Students challenge each other to make sentences using language randomly selected from a grid. Sentences are then recorded in spoken and written form. | App:Explain Everythinghttp://www.explaineverything.com/1/post/2012/1/explain-a-website.html
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| Materials Needed:Battleships grid (downloaded from busyteacher.com)
Lettered squares contain the names of people & subject pronouns, numbered squares contain adjectives.
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| Students retrieve their allotted worksheet from the class email inbox e.g. ClassD@hotmail.com and open it up in Explain Everything. | Class email addressExplain Everything | |
| Oral Pair Work Stage:Students work in pairs. They sit back to back so they need to listen to each other carefully.Each partner has a grid with different words on it.
St. A says ‘Choose a letter and a number’ St B says ‘ I’ll have ….. and ….. St A reads the words in the chosen squares St B incorporates the words into a sentence adding because and supplying a reason e.g. Policemen are happy because they help people.
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Students produce language at the sentence level.Students revise subject and verb agreement.They work on simple cause/effect relationships. |
| Language Capture Stage:Students minimize the Battleship Grid providing room to write down some of the sentences they have just produced orally.The teacher circulates, giving feedback and using the highlight and writing function to draw student attention to learner errors.
Students record several additional sentences.
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Explain Everything | Writing and recording sentences produced during the pair work activity helps students internalize the target language and provides a record for later recycling work. |
| Sharing Student Work:Students tap the save icon and name the document.Students tap the share icon and email the document as a PDF to the class email address.
The teacher either opens up emails or asks students to mirror their work onto the board. Whole class error correction work and remedial teaching can take place and be captured on the board. Students photograph the board, return to Explain Everything and insert the image next to their sentences and Battleship Grid. |
Explain EverythingCamera | Sharing work motivates students to produce good quality work and students can learn from both the errors their peers have made and the good language examples their peers produce.Sharing work exposes students to more comprehensible input of the language in focus. |
An example of the student page including a photograph of a boarded remedial slot from another part of the lesson.
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