Minimal Pairs Practice

1. Students distinguish between similar-sounding words like "ship" versus "sheep".

2. Differentiation: Beginners can use pictures and listen before speaking. Advanced learners can practice in dialogues.

Sound Bingo

1. A listening game where students mark the correct word or sound they hear.

2. Differentiation: Provide audio support and word banks for lower-level students. Ask higher-level students to call out the words.

Phoneme Sorting

1. Students sort words by beginning, middle, or ending sounds.

2. Differentiation: Use visual supports and fewer categories for newcomers. Add multisyllabic words for advanced learners.

Choral Reading with Emphasis on Pronunciation

1. Group reading that focuses on rhythm, stress, and intonation.

2. Differentiation: Pair students strategically for modeling. Provide audio recordings for independent practice.

Word Building with Morpheme Cards

1. Students use root words, prefixes, and suffixes to build new words.

2. Differentiation: Provide labeled visuals for beginners. Allow advanced students to use words in sentences.

Morphology Match Game

1. Match a word with its meaning and morpheme breakdown.

2. Differentiation: Beginners can match visuals to meaning. Advanced students can define parts and use context clues.

Root of the Day

1. Introduce a new root, like "bio" and brainstorm related words.

2. Differentiation: Beginners can draw pictures or match definitions. Higher-level learners can create short definitions or sentences.

Academic Word Dissection

1. Students break down key academic words, like "photosynthesis", into morphemes and meanings.

2. Differentiation: Support newcomers with word banks. Ask fluent learners to compare multiple related terms.
   

Sentence Scrambles

1. Students rearrange mixed up words into correct sentences.

2. Differentiation: Beginners can use simple sentences with visuals while advanced learners can use longer sentences such as compound sentences.

Model and Imitate

1. Teachers can display a sentence and have students create new ones using the same structure.

2. Differentiation: Provide sentence frames and word banks for beginners.

Error Correction

1. Students identify and fix errors in word order within short passages.

2. Differentiation: For beginners, provide a list of issues as a guide and allow advanced learners to peer-edit complex paragraphs.

Syntax Sort

1. Students out phrases into categories based on sentence structure elements (subject, verb, etc.).

2. Differentiation: Beginners can be provided color-coded cards to help with sorting.

Semantic Webs

1. Students are given a word and must explore it’s meaning, synonyms, and antonyms.

2. Differentiation: Beginners can be provided visuals while advanced learners can be asked to identify terms that we would normally see accompanying the spotlight word.

Word of the Day

1. Teach a new vocabulary word every day and prompt students to explore it’s various meanings, synonyms, and antonyms.

2. Differentiation: Beginners can be given simpler definitions and given real examples while advanced learners can be asked to use the new word in a sentence.

Context Clue Detective

1. Students guess the meaning of a word based on a short sentence or passage that it is found in.

2. Differentiation: Beginners can be given a list of definitions to choose from while advanced learners can make inferences on what the word may mean prior to being given the sentence or passage.

Multiple Meaning Match Up

1. Have students match a word with its multiple meanings.

2. Differentiation: Beginners can use pictures while advanced learners can be asked to think of synonyms for the words.

Role-Play Speech Acting

1. Student act out asking certain questions, stating apologies, or greetings in specific contexts.

2. Differentiation: Beginners can be given scripts while advanced learners can improvise scenarios.

Conversation Starters

1. Educators can teach their students how to start, maintain, and end conversations in different settings.

2. Differentiation: Beginners can be provided with sentence starters for practice while advanced learners can be paired with students to hold their own conversations.

Tone Practice

1. Have students practice saying the same phrase in different tones or contexts.

2. Differentiation: Beginners can imitate what their teacher has modeled for them while advanced learners can analyze a tone their educator provides for them to determine the context.

What Would You Say?

1. Give students a scenario and ask them to choose an appropriate response to the situation.

2. Differentiation: Beginners can be given very simple scenarios with visuals while advanced learners can be given complex scenarios that can have various acceptable responses.