Catchy Words

By Anna Àvila, Paula Díaz, Raquel Fernández and Àngela Izquierdo

Contextualitzation

Target group: The activity would be led to children of 8 years old, specifically, third of Primary. 

Competences: 

• Oral communication dimension:

  • Competence 3. To orally interact according to the communicative situation and using basic conversational strategies.

• Reading comprehension dimension:

  • Competence 4. Apply strategies to obtain basic information and understand simple or adapted written texts from everyday life, the media and the school environment.

• Written expression dimension:

  • Competence 9. Revise the text to improve it according to the communicative situation with the help of specific supports

• Multilingual dimension and interculture:

  • Competence 12. Use multilingual strategies for communication.

Objectives:

Students will be able to:

• Develop their writing and reading languages abilities 

• Spell out the words to figure out the relationship between the sound of words and how they are written 

• Know which role plays each person in society 

• Develop the synesthetic competence 

Scaffolding

PRE-DURING SCAFFOLDING

Materials: 

• 1 Tablet or smartphone device 

• 1 Profession’s sheet 

• 1 pen or pencil 

Instructions: 

For this activity the students will need a tablet/smartphone, a pencil/pen and a Profession’s sheet for each group of them. They will have to fill the gaps in the Profession’s sheet finding SEVEN words by using the Catchy app in their tablets or smartphones. 

POST-SCAFFOLFING

Materials: 

• Profession’s papers 

Instructions: 

We will give them some papers with the professions written down. The students will have to describe each profession to the other part of the group, without using the word they want to describe. For example, if you want to describe “vet”, you cannot use veterinary.