Literacy Strategy
Guardian of the word
At the start of a topic/ unit give each student a key word, of which s/he is the guardian. During the course of the topic, she has to test every other person in the class to make sure that she can spell the word and knows the meaning. You can allocate a couple of minutes each lesson for this testing process to occur. Each Guardian has to keep a list of the people she has tested. At the end of the topic, conduct a test, which can be a mixture of questions such as simple “spelling” or a question in the form of “what is the word which means …” or “what is the word which is opposite of …”
Taken from Helen Nicholls – Building Blocks.
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