It’s time to update the printed Genki English worksheet books. I’d love to hear your thoughts, so my question is …
Which worksheet types would you most like to see included?
Answers in the blog comments and you never know I might have some free copies for those who make the most helpful suggestions! 🙂
Be genki,
Richard
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Richard, what kind of answer are you looking for?
The ones in there should be included I think~would you like ideas for new images, or ideas for worksheets of the the new topics? or?
Topics are fixed, so it’s what sort of worksheets you’d like (It would probably just be 1 per theme, or maybe 2??) The current ones were all a variety of different ones, but I was wondering if any of the different types (e.g. snakes & ladders, imagination, basic colouring etc.) are more popular? Or would you like to see something totally new that I don’t have yet? e.g. http://www.itsybitsyfun.com/ has some nice ideas etc.
P.S. I won’t be included “tracing” or anything involving letters – it’s all pre-literate!
I enjoy doing crafts with the students. I especially refer to http://kizclub.com/animalcrafts.htm for ideas. Crafts is a good way to settle the kids and get them doing something creative.
Dear Richard,
I would love more printables like colour by numbers, dot-to-dot, mazes, spot the differences,and pictures to vocab, connected to your themes so that the lesson is ready and the kids gain confidence confirming with easy worksheets what they are learning.
Thanks
Since GE naturally has children talking about themselves, how about an ‘About Me’ type worksheets where students draw pictures of
I like…
I don’t like
I have…
I came here by…
I’m going to
I live by…
my birthday is…
etc etc
this would be something great to keep in a file and give to the students at the end of the year.
Imagination worksheets always work and you don’t find those everywhere. Comprehension exercises are also interesting: sequencing, … to see if they’ve understood the ‘story’. Maybe a TIC-TAC-TOE exercise with the new vocabulary. Or a new boardgame could be nice.
I like all your current worksheets!
I love the crossword puzzles,like the one for animals on Vol.8. I also love to use the spaghetti worksheets.
Anything is as always a help,so thank you in advance!
OK, now I see what you mean:
definitely an upload of the IMAGINATION WORKSHEETS:
kids and parents love them and they make a great deco or exhibition as well; not to say they can be used further on for creative writing.
then I agree with Paula as well.
To be honest, I’Ve tried all the other types (snakes and ladders, island hopping, connecting etc, but I don’t feel we get a lot out of them. It is nothing the kids can do on their own at home, and for class it is too much time that I’d love to use talking.
So, ideally it would be some worksheets the kids could do at home.
Richard I would love for you to include listening worksheets. It’s a nice way to check what they’ve learned and practice their listening skills. Also including matching exercises, bingo games, activities for the stories you have such as sequencing is always a good idea.
I’m a fan of wordsearch, I think that even for the kids who can’t read yet it’s still a good way for them to get familiar with the letters and how they go together. For the ones that can read I believe it’s a great way to put the words into their memory, and it’s fun.
Dear Richard,
your worksheets are always wonderful and I usually use them even to make new ones.I mean they give me guide lines to produce new ones.I would like you to include more listening work sheets about phonics,and any thing related to distinguish sounds and letters in different words.Also I need some worksheets to help speaking and writing problems. thank you so much.
Sara
The spaghetti sheets are SUPER! I use them weekly for both listening and speaking. We do the listening match-up and when they turn in their sheets they speak the words, too. They get a star stamp on each picture they can say. They love it when they earn 8 stars down the page (and so do I)!
Sometimes I review and verify the vocabulary before starting the spaghetti with listening and coloring. For instance, with “How did you get here?” I say color the rocket red, color the mountain bike purple, and so on. I can see how well they remember the vocab. Then we do the SS as usual. I see my kids once a week and if we’ve skipped a week or if I need one class to catch up to another, this is a great quick review and gets the class settled and ready for listening time.
An activity my first and second graders get really excited about is a “Do you like…? ask and answer sheet (usually the back of the spaghetti sheet). It’s three columns labeled “Do you like…” “Yes, I do!” and “No, I don’t!” In the first column they draw 4+ foods they like. The students mingle “Do you like” + one of their drawings and mark the answer. A check for yes and a cross for no. When they’ve got four+ answers for each drawing, they find me and we ask and answer. My classes really dig this. They like filling in the sheet, marking checks and crosses, like grown-ups.
I’ve had the kids fold paper to make guidelines for the grid. The folding, kissing the corners, pressing the creases, helps settle the class, too.
@Jenny: Very nice! I particularly like the talking games there! Do you need spaghetti sheets for the newer volumes too??
Hi Richard, what I would like to see for the younger ones, is more writing exercises. Example: the joining up of dashes (—–) or dots
(…..) to form the key vocabulary, that is being taught. Obviously accompanying the relevant pictures.
Keep up the great work.
Steve C
Yes, we are working our way to the newer volumes! If you do make or edit the spaghetti sheets a place for their name would be great! Something I just thought of that would be useful in my classes are check boxes next to the pictures, similar to the workbooks, but one for listening and one for speaking. Then the kids and their parents and I will know which words to practice.
Hi Steve, thanks for the request!
Dots and dashes can be great for basic motor skills. But …. it’s very important not to use this type of thing for the key vocabulary until *after* the kids have gone through the phonics course. Introducing the written words like this too early has a significant negative effect on their reading age – which is of course something we want to avoid!