Bright and early Wednesday morning I sat in on Ron Garren's beginning grammar class. The class began immediately at 9:00AM however, many people began to trickle in the next ten minutes. Mr. Garren wrote the agenda for the day on the board and also the topic we would be learning, Pronouns. He began the class by going over the previous nights homework and what I thought was helpful was he projected the homework on a screen so students had it in front of them and on the board. He started the review by calling on students to read the sentence and their answers aloud. If a student was incorrect, he had the class verbally decide on what the answer was and then confirm it himself. After the homework, we split up into partners and read a passage in our groups. Our instructions were to find and circle all the pronouns in the passage. I got to work with a student on this, and unfortunately I was a little rusty on the topic. (Now, I really know what pronouns are) He then went over the activity by again, projecting it on the screen and highlighting all the pronouns so we could check our own work.
Then came my favorite part of the class, pronoun BINGO! He passed out BINGO charts and read sentences that contained a pronoun. Students must listen for the pronoun and then cover it on their BINGO board. Many students at my table were getting "our" and "hour" mixed up and would look at me for help. I pointed to my wrist every time it was "hour." The students played two rounds of that version then Mr. Garren made it more challenging: He wrote sentences on the board and they had to guess the correct pronoun. For instance "This is the dog's house." The dog would be replaced by "its."
This version of BINGO was a great idea for the class because he was able to lead the students into finding the answers themselves and whenever someone yelled BINGO it perked up the class, especially since it was 9:00 in the morning.
BINGO!
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