Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id fBIKqX010029; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:52:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:52:33 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011218124723.009f8de0@mail.aracnet.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Sylvan Rainwater <sylvan@cccchs.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:532] RE: Curriculum responses X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Status: O Content-Length: 1541 Lines: 34 At 10:36 AM 12/18/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Thanks Laura! - I have always felt that commercial products have removed the >"down to earth" nature of the content. Commercial products are too glossy >and clean, so that the nature of the environment and people the materials >are meant for is lost. ><SNIP> Sometimes we the best lessons are those we haven't prepared for. I did one last week where I was going to have people describe pictures of people from magazines. I carefully cut lots of pictures out of a magazine and laminated them to neutral colored paper, cut them out, and had them ready to use (I thought). Come the day of the lesson and I can't find the pictures at all. So -- quick change of plans -- the students find pictures in magazines (which I always keep in my classroom) and cut them out, paste them to a piece of notebook paper, and write their descriptions there. Then they bring those to the front of the room, and present them to the class. It actually worked better than what I had been planning, because it allowed for more hands-on activity from them. Mind you, preparation is necessary, but I often find that it really is that "jumping-off place" that we've mentioned for curricula. I did start that lesson with the Picture Dictionary vocabulary, going over pronunciation, etc., but didn't end it there. ------------------------------ Sylvan Rainwater . sylvan@cccchs.org Adult Education Teacher and Family Literacy Program Manager Clackamas County Children's Commission . Oregon City, OR USA
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