AISA Conference - Kigali, Rwanda 2025 by

Vanessa Gómez

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vgomez@lincoln.edu.gh
vgomezwilmes@gmail.com

Name / Identities

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What's your name?

How many names do you have?

How many last names do you have?

Whose last name do you have?

Do you have a nickname?

What is the meaning of your name?

How do you like to be called?

Family

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How many people in your family?
Do you have siblings?
Are you the oldest or youngest child?
What do you like to do with your family?

Nationality

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Where are you from?
Where were you born?
Where are your parents from?
Where did your parents grow up?
How many passports do you have?
Have you lived in your home country? How long?
Where is home for you?

Student cooperative re-write

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Students take turns writing information around the student interviewed.

Discuss & Write

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After the interview, students share orally with peers the information the understood. As a class, students co-create a text. As they produce the information, teacher types on screen for students to self-assess their spelling, sentence structure, and ask questions.

Wall of Fame Classroom Display - Community Building

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After the interview, students get a picture taken to be displayed in the classroom "Wall of Fame".

True or False (strand i)

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Write statements from student text for peers to identify if the information is True or False. Students also explain why.

Quick write: Compare and Contrast (strand iii)

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With 2 or more student texts:

1) Compare information with own
2) Students compare 2 or more students.

Type of Text introduction (Example: Email) (Strand ii)

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Create a specific text format by using the student(s) information.
Example: I created an informal email to a friend, where I introduced my student to them. Students are able to look at the format, structure of the text with different lenses as the content is already familiar to them.

Fill in the blank (strand i)

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From a student text, remove some of the targeted vocabulary, details, or verbs for students to recall or conjugate in proper tense.

Quick Write: Connections & Comparisons (strand iii)

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Based on interview information, student identify connections between interview content and own.

Identify false information (Strand i)

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From a text, students identify if the information is accurate.

After conducting more than 2 interviews in class (Strand i & iii)

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1) Multiple choice quiz with student info to identify "targeted" structures/vocabulary.
2)Identify connections between 2 texts: Compare & Contrast.

Identify inacurate format (strand ii)

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From a student text, student identify "errors" in grammar, spelling, agreement, sentence structure.

Create a online game using your students info!

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Kahoot
Gimkit
Blooket
Quizlet

Childhood

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What did you used to like or do as a little kid?

Where did you used to live?

What was your favorite toy as a kid?

Brad Mock

2025-10-05 10:45:35 UTC

English Language Acquisition Teacher at the International Community School of Addis Ababa.

bradley.mock@icsaddis.org

mock.br@gmail.com

Lchellal@iskr.org

2025-10-05 10:45:55 UTC

Leila Chellal

International school Kigali Rwanda

Athena Amapola

2025-10-05 10:46:01 UTC

aamapola@aislagos.org

Lagos, Nigeria

Emmanuel Nsanzabandi

2025-10-05 10:47:08 UTC

ensanzabandi@iskr.org

International school of Kigali

Ryan Fletcher

2025-10-05 10:49:43 UTC

Grade 3 Teacher, ISD, Senegal

ryanf@faculty.isd.sn