Cara Carroll

Praise Jesus! And a Little More Alliteration

I PASSED THE ESL TEST!!  I’M OFFICIALLY ESL CERTIFIED!!!     PRAISE JESUS!!!!!!     presh In other news, I just wanna put him in my pocket in take him home with me!  PRESH!   Sarah left me a comment the other day directing me to this absolutely DARLING activity she did for alliteration. We didn’t have the book Ten in a Sled, but I loved the idea of using verbs with alliteration.  So…while I’m waiting for my copy of Ten in a Sled, I decided to do a little whole group shared writing activity with the class.  We made two word alliteration sentences using nouns & verbs.  This was a great way to assess my kids’ understanding of action words…a few of them were still having a hard time with it!  When one kiddo couldn’t figure out the perfect verb to go with his/her name, he/she got to call on a friend for help.  This was such a FUN activity!!!! alliteration2  Then they got to follow up with a little writing activity for their desk task {literacy station} that day. alliteration4   alliteration5 Since that little activity got such rave reviews, I followed it up with something similar today.  Instead of alliterations using nouns & verbs, we used nouns & adjectives!  This was A LOT harder!!!  It took lots of little minds working together to come up with words to describe themselves…especially words that had to start with the same initial sound as their first names!!! alliteration We followed up with another little writing activity for their desk task today, too. alliteration3    alliteration6 I collected all of their writing to laminate and then turn into class books for our library.  These shared writing activities were also great for reinforcing punctuation and stretching out sounds to make words….we’re working SO hard on that!!!!  Nothing too exciting, but my kids had such a blast with these!!  And to those of you that think my anchor charts are always fun and frivolous, as you can see, they’re clearly NOT.  As long as it gets the job done, sometimes it just doesn’t matter how they look!!!!  I’ve got a glass of cabernet & Top Chef calling…y’all have a great rest of the week!!!    

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  12. Traci says

    Hahah Heather! I was totally going to do that… you squashed my hopes for an alliterative comment! 🙂

    Congrats Cara on your certification.

    Adorable… easy… and effective lesson. Love it.

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  20. Jess says

    Congrats on passing! I love all your alliteration ideas and keep wondering when I could possibly fit them into my curriculum since it isn't already in there. The end of the school year is always a great time for that so I'll just have to pin these activities until then! Thanks for sharing!
    Rambling About Reading

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  22. Cecelia says

    Congrats Cara!
    Thanks for sharing these cute alliteration activities. Already did it, but I will pin for next year.
    BTW, I want to take home that precious boy, too:)
    Cecelia

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  27. Brandi says

    Congratulations!!!! So happy for you!!! I hope to be a first grade teacher soon!!! My interview in on Tuesday! I loved teaching 2nd grade but am ready for a change.WOOHOO!

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  28. Paula Headland says

    First off, way to go girl!!! ESL certified is such a HUGE accomplishment.
    I also want to you to know your Alliteration ideas are fantastic! (pinning asap) I'm going to find a way to fit them in writers workshop during my student teaching. My kiddos will love it.

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  30. Stephanie says

    WOW!! I'm so PROUD of you! I may need a little help if I ever need to take this test! Thank you for your sweet comment! I'm not sure when my next trip will be, but I'll definately let you know. I would LOVE to meet up again! XOXO Stephanie

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  32. Jan Brady says

    Congratulations on becoming ESL Certified! And, I also love the alliteration activities. I'm going to try them out in the next week or two. Thanks so much for sharing.

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    • Reagan Tunstall says

      I am not able to comment for some reason. Sorry to Dusty for hitting reply on this comment!

      Cara!!
      Congrats!!! whoop whoop! 🙂
      AAaaaaaaaaay rrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiba ande le ande le! That was my multilingual congratulatory comment. Now that you are ESL certified I know you can totally handle it.

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