Songs and Games Help Students with Language Acquisition

In fourth grade Hebrew, teacher Mira Peretz uses many different activities to help her students with language acquisition. “As a supplement to our Chaverim B’Ivrit curriculum, I incorporate songs, games, and conversation into my teaching to help students get comfortable with the language and learn the vocabulary,” Ms. Peretz says. One of the games has students working together to create sentences using words written on index cards. “I divide the cards into nouns and verbs and students use these cards to create sentences. It helps them familiarize themselves with sentence structure and composition.” On Wednesday, students practiced their vocabulary around musical instruments (by actually playing instruments!) and their conversational Hebrew by asking one another where they are from and how their day has been.

 

Adds Ms. Peretz, “Gradually the conversations become more sophisticated and we incorporate more of their new vocabulary. I’ve already seen a lot of improvement in my students!” MORE PHOTOS