writing – Project-Based Italian

Top 5 Quick Substitute Lesson Ideas

Cartoon image of an ill young woman (teacher for this post) lying in bed, propped up against her pillow, with a red ice pack on top of her head, wrapped in a blue blanket around her shoulders. A cat is curled up at the foot of her bed. She looks like she has a fever and is measuring it with a thermometer in her mouth.

5 essential, evergreen, no tech and low prep ideas for substitute lesson plans, for those unplanned absences!

Creative Comics and Onomatopoeia Activities in the Classroom

a variety of blank speech balloons or thought bubbles in rows of three and in different shapes

Understanding Onomatopoeia: Sounds That Speak

Upper left hand corner: black silhouette or icon of a person with hurt knee saying Ahia in a speech balloon; lower left a ringing yellow bell with the caption Din don; lower right center, comic explosion graphics saying Bang, pum, boom; lower right corner: wow; center right a locomotive in black and white with white smoke from its smoke stack and grey smoke near the wheels stating ciuf ciuf; upper right corner: a yellow face emoji with full cheeks and holding a bitten apple, with the graphic caption gnam gnam; upper right center: comic explosion graphics, one on top is yellow and red with the word Vlan! and the lower one is a red explosion graphic with the comic bubble word Slap! in light blue.

What is onomatopoeia? Crack! Brrr! Mmmm! These sounds, representing actions, are onomatopoeic. In one blog I found this statement about onomatopoeic words: “…there is another way to make us understood without using meaningful words: onomatopoeias…” but I would argue that onomatopoeic words are very much meaningful as they are a helpful way of showing, notContinue reading “Understanding Onomatopoeia: Sounds That Speak”