Let me start by saying that this is an idea I found on Pinterest. It is a modified work, not an original, but I wanted to share it out because my students love it and it has made a difference in the level of engagement.
Like many of you, my classroom is small. I have little wall space, and posters take up a lot of real estate. This idea, therefore, caught my eye when I saw it. It is a thin banner of commonly used phrases that I have attached at the top of my student's desks. The first time I put them on, I photocopied them on bright orange paper and taped them to the desks. As you can imagine, they lasted about three weeks before they came flying off. In a second attempt, I bought one of those scotch laminators and started to laminate them.
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What I mostly love about these, is that it is a quick go to sheet when the kids are caught off guard. No longer do they have to pull out a vocabulary sheet from a folder or look at the back of the book. Furthermore, they have been on the desks long enough that most of them don't even look at them anymore. The phrases slowly (without much work) have become part of their everyday vocabulary and students have the confidence to use them.
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