Kim

I came across this website called [|Slowmation]and it has quite a few interesting educational videos that students have made themselves!

I'm using "[|Rhyming Words]" from [|BrainPOP Jr].



I believe this would be an effective tool for dialogic thinking in the classroom because it captures the children's attention for the movie. After the movie, there is a quiz for the teacher to use with the class. This can either be done in small groups on computers, or with the teacher on the interactive whiteboard. You could also use this with the children, and they can come up to the board and select the appropriate word they believe would be correct. It would be best used in a grade 1 class where the children are beginning to grasp words in sentences, and would encourage them to think ahead about words that could rhyme with the words that they are reading. There is also the "[|Catch It]" game that children could play in groups and have a mini-competition to see who can get the most rhyming words. I believe this learning object/resource is actually a good one because it can be used in quite a few different ways. It can be used both by the teacher and the students and encourages the input and interaction of the students individually, teams and as a group. You can stop the movie every now and again and ask the children to point out words that have for example: double letters ("cook" or "book"). Questions could be along the lines of "//These help Moby hear, color in each ___ [ear]//" with the "[|Colour In]" activity, and get the students to colour in the body part that relates to the word they believe is missing.