TEACHING MEDIA ‘COMMUNICATION CARD IN A MAGIC BAG’

TEACHING MEDIA

‘COMMUNICATION CARD IN A MAGIC BAG’

1. MAGIC BAG : a bag made from a gift paper and stuck on the wall or on the buffalo paper

It can be filled anything that related to the topic given, for example:

Candy, pencil, picture, pieces of a word, a sentence or a text.

2. COMMUNICATION CARD: pieces of a word, a sentence, a dialog, a paragraph or a text that can be used for students to work together (in groups). Students should rearrange the jumble alphabet into a good word, the jumble sentences into a good paragraph and so on.

Do you know a big animal that has two ivories and a long trunk?

Its body is very big. Maybe it is the biggest animal in the world

An example of a game in a reading class

1. Students are divided into small groups of 4 students
2. The representative of a group takes a piece of paper in the magic bag that consists of a paragraph of a descriptive text
3. Students discuss the meaning of the paragraph
4. a student in each group goes forward to tell the meaning and arrange the jumble paragraphs into a good text
5. students discuss it and the teacher gives a clue when they get difficulty to arrange it.
6. the teacher gives questions based on the text
7. students answer it and then to get ingoing assessment, they exchange their work with other students
8. students write down the answer on the whiteboard and the teacher corrects it
9. the top five students who get the highest score may take the reward in a magic bag. They get candies.

Note:

Communication card can be used in speaking class as well as reading class. The more creative a teacher, the more interesting a class will be.

R. Chusnu Yuli Setyo, M.Pd